Publications

Below is a list of publications from Professor Dr. Hadas Akon-Singer,  Group Leader of Neurocognition and Mental Health.

Journal Article (59)

2025
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Cywiak, V.; Solt, I.; Givon-Benjio, N.; Fruchter, E.; Okon-Singer, H.: Cognitive biases: Potential behavioral marker for future development of postpartum depression and childbirth-related post-traumatic stress disorder. Frontiers in Psychiatry 16, 1650453 (2025)
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Friedman-Oskar, M.; Sahar, T.; Makovski, T.; Okon-Singer, H.: Emotional stimuli boost incidental learning through predictive processing. Cognition & Emotion 39 (4), pp. 858 - 875 (2025)
2024
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Ashkenazi, S.; Danan, Y.; Okon-Singer, H.: Mathematical anxiety is associated with reduced visuospatial working memory: The impact of emotional and spatial distracting information. Current Psychology 43, pp. 34947 - 34961 (2024)
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Strommer, N.; Okon-Singer, H.; Gabay, S.: The subcortical role in executive functions: Neural mechanisms of executive inhibition in the flanker task. Cognitive, Affective and Behavioral Neuroscience 24 (6), pp. 1023 - 1030 (2024)
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Givon-Benjio, N.; Marx, T.; Hartston, M.; Aderka, I. M.; Hadad, B.-S.; Okon-Singer, H.: The relationship between interpersonal distance preference and estimation accuracy in autism. PLoS One 19 (9), e0306536 (2024)
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Abado, E.; Aue, T.; Pourtois, G.; Okon-Singer, H.: Expectancy and attention bias to spiders: Dissecting anticipation and allocation processes using ERPs. Psychophysiology 61 (6), e14546 (2024)
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Givon-Benjio, N.; Sokolover, H.; Aderka, I. M.; Hadad, B.-S.; Okon-Singer, H.: Perception of interpersonal distance and social distancing before and during COVID-19 pandemic. Scientific Reports 14 (1), 4568 (2024)
2023
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Abado, E.; Aue, T.; Okon-Singer, H.: Spider vs. guns: Expectancy and attention biases to phylogenetic threat do not extend to ontogenetic threat. Frontiers in Psychology 14, 1232985 (2023)
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Agassi, O. D.; Hertz, U.; Shani, R.; Derakshan, N.; Wiener, A.; Okon-Singer, H.: Using clustering algorithms to examine the association between working memory training trajectories and therapeutic outcomes among psychiatric and healthy populations. Psychological Research 87 (5), pp. 1389 - 1400 (2023)
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Günther, V.; Strukova, M.; Pecher, J.; Webelhorst, C.; Engelmann, S.; Kersting, A.; Hoffmann, K.-T.; Egloff, B.; Okon-Singer, H.; Lobsien, D. et al.; Suslow, T.: Cognitive avoidance is associated with decreased brain responsiveness to threat distractors under high perceptual load. Brain Sciences 13 (4), 618 (2023)
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Abado, E.; Okon-Singer, H.; Aue, T.: Neurophysiological mechanisms underlying cognitive biases to emotional information: Latest developments and new directions. Biological Psychology 177, 108486 (2023)
2022
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Givon-Benjio, N.; Okon-Singer, H.: The role of fear in hierarchical processing of fear-related stimuli. Journal of Psychopathology and Clinical Science 131 (7), pp. 727 - 732 (2022)
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Ram, Y.; Collins-Kreiner, N.; Gozansky, E.; Moscona, G.; Okon-Singer, H.: Is there a COVID-19 vaccination effect? A three-wave cross-sectional study. Current Issues in Tourism 25 (3), pp. 379 - 386 (2022)
2021
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Wiener, A.; Goldstein, P.; Doenyas, K.; Okon-Singer, H.: Abnormalities in emotional and motor reactions among young prehypertensive individuals: Employing continuous blood pressure analysis. Journal of Hypertension 39 (10), pp. 2040 - 2050 (2021)
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Richter, T.; Fishbain, B.; Richter-Levin, G.; Okon-Singer, H.: Machine learning-based behavioral diagnostic tools for depression: Advances, challenges, and future directions. Journal of Personalized Medicine 11 (10), 957 (2021)
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Abado, E.; Aue, T.; Okon-Singer, H.: Cognitive biases in blood-injection-injury phobia: A review. Frontiers in Psychiatry 12, 678891 (2021)
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Asher, M.; Barthel, A. L.; Hofmann, S. G.; Okon-Singer, H.; Aderka, I. M.: When two hearts beat as one: Heart-rate synchrony in social anxiety disorder. Behaviour Research and Therapy 141, 103859 (2021)
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Shani, R.; Tal, S.; Derakshan, N.; Cohen, N.; Enock, P. M.; McNally, R. J.; Mor, N.; Daches, S.; Williams, A. D.; Yiend, J. et al.; Carlbring, P.; Kuckertz, J. M.; Yang, W.; Reinecke, A.; Beevers, C. G.; Bunnell, B. E.; Koster, E. H. W.; Zilcha-Mano, S.; Okon-Singer, H.: Personalized cognitive training: Protocol for individual-level meta-analysis implementing machine learning methods. Journal of Psychiatric Research 138, pp. 342 - 348 (2021)
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Gozansky, E.; Moscona, G.; Okon-Singer, H.: Identifying variables that predict depression following the general lockdown during the COVID-19 pandemic. Frontiers in Psychology 12, 680768 (2021)
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Lewis, C. A.; Mueller, K.; Zsido, R.; Reinelt, J.; Regenthal, R.; Okon-Singer, H.; Forbes, E. E.; Villringer, A.; Sacher, J.: A single dose of escitalopram blunts the neural response in the thalamus and caudate during monetary loss. Journal of Psychiatry & Neuroscience 46 (3), pp. E319 - E327 (2021)
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