The Cognition Emotion Interaction (CEI) Lab
Books
*Aue, T., & Okon-Singer, H. (2020). Cognitive biases in health and psychiatric disorders: Neurophysiological foundations. San Diego: Elsevier. *For individual chapters, please feel free to contact us and we will send them to you.
Publications
Book Chapters
Abado, E., Richter, T., & Okon-Singer, H. (2020). Attention biases toward negative stimuli. In T. Aue & H. Okon-Singer (Eds.), Cognitive biases in health and psychiatric disorders: Neurophysiological foundations. San Diego: Elsevier. Richter, T., Shackman, A.J., Aue, T., & Okon-Singer, H. (2019). The neurobiology of emotion-cognition interactions. In Cognitive dimensions of major depressive disorder. Baune, B., & Harmer, C. (Eds.). Oxford University Press. Okon-Singer, H., Stout, D. M., Stockbridge, M. D., Gamer, M., Fox, A. S., & Shackman, A. J. (2017). The interplay of emotion and cognition. In The nature of emotion. Fundamental questions, 2. Okon-Singer, H., Pessoa, L., & Shackman, A. J. (Eds.). (2015). The neurobiology of emotion-cognition interactions. Frontiers Media SA.
Special Issues
Okon-Singer, H., Hendler, T., Pessoa, L., & Shackman, A.J. (2015). Special research topic; and E-Book (Eds.). The neurobiology of emotion-cognition interactions. Frontiers in Human Neuroscience. Okon-Singer, H., & Aue, T. (2017). Neurocognitive mechanisms modulating attention bias in anxiety - Current perspectives. Biological Psychology. Number of pages: 130. Special research topic. Aue, T., & Okon-Singer, H. (2016). Determinants and associations of cognitive biases in fear and anxiety. Biological Psychology.
Articles
Ram, Y., Collins-Kreiner, N., Gozansky, E., Moscona, G., & Okon-Singer, H. (2022). Is there a COVID-19 vaccination effect? A three-wave cross-sectional study. Current Issues in Tourism, 25(3), 379-386. Givon-Benjio, N., & Okon-Singer, H. (2022). The role of fear in hierarchical processing of fear-related stimuli. Journal of Psychopathology and Clinical Science. https://psycnet.apa.org/fulltext/2022-88065-001.html Agassi, O. D., Hertz, U., Shani, R., Derakshan, N., Wiener, A., & Okon-Singer, H. (2022). Using clustering algorithms to examine the association between working memory training trajectories and therapeutic outcomes among psychiatric and healthy populations. Psychological Research, 1-12. https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s00426-022-01728-1 Abado, E., Aue, T., & Okon-Singer, H. Spider vs. Guns: Expectancy and Attention Biases to Phylogenetic Threat Do Not Extend to Ontogenetic Threat. Guns: Expectancy and Attention Biases to Phylogenetic Threat Do Not Extend to Ontogenetic Threat. https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=4400802 Günther, V., Strukova, M., Pecher, J., Webelhorst, C., Engelmann, S., Kersting, A., ... & Suslow, T. (2023). Cognitive Avoidance Is Associated with Decreased Brain Responsiveness to Threat Distractors under High Perceptual Load. Brain Sciences, 13(4), 618. https://www.mdpi.com/2076-3425/13/4/618 Schiller, D., Alessandra, N. C., Alia-Klein, N., Becker, S., Cromwell, H. C., Dolcos, F., ... & Smith, R. C. (2022). The human affectome. https://hal.science/hal-03728066/
2022
Richter, T., Fishbain, B., Richter-Levin, G., & Okon-Singer, H. (2021). Machine Learning-Based Behavioral Diagnostic Tools for Depression: Advances, Challenges, and Future Directions. Journal of Personalized Medicine, 11(10), 957. Abado, E., Aue, T., & Okon-Singer, H. (2021). Cognitive Biases in Blood-Injection-Injury Phobia: A Review. Frontiers in Psychiatry, 1158. Richter, T., Fishbain, B., Fruchter, E., Richter-Levin, G., & Okon-Singer, H. (2021). Machine learning-based diagnosis support system for differentiating between clinical anxiety and depression disorders. Journal of Psychiatric Research. Gozansky, E., Moscona, G., & Okon-Singer, H. (2021). Identifying variables that predict depression following the general lockdown during the COVID-19 pandemic. Frontiers in psychology, 12, 680768. Asher, M., Barthel, A. L., Hofmann, S. G., Okon-Singer, H., & Aderka, I. M. (2021). When two hearts beat as one: Heart-rate synchrony in social anxiety disorder. Behaviour Research and Therapy, 141, 103859. Shani, R., Tal, S., Derakshan, N., Cohen, N., Enock, P. M., McNally, R. J., ... & Okon-Singer, H. (2021). Personalized cognitive training: Protocol for individual-level meta-analysis implementing machine learning methods. Journal of psychiatric research, 138, 342-348. Wiener, A., Goldstein, P., Doenyas, K., & Okon-Singer, H. (2021). Abnormalities in emotional and motor reactions among young prehypertensive individuals: employing continuous blood pressure analysis. Journal of Hypertension. Lewis, C. A., Mueller, K., Zsido, R. G., Reinelt, J., Regenthal, R., Okon-Singer, H., ... & Sacher, J. (2021). A single dose of escitalopram blunts the neural response in the thalamus and caudate during monetary loss. Journal of Psychiatry & Neuroscience: JPN, 46(3), E319-E327.
2021
Givon‐Benjio, N., Oren‐Yagoda, R., Aderka, I. M., & Okon‐Singer, H. (2020). Biased distance estimation in social anxiety disorder: A new avenue for understanding avoidance behavior. Depression and Anxiety, 37(12), 1243-1252. Abado, E., Sagi, J., Silber, N., De Houwer, J., Aue, T., & Okon-Singer, H. (2020). Reducing attention bias in spider fear by manipulating expectancies. Behaviour research and therapy, 135, 103729. Richter, T., Fishbain, B., Markus, A., Richter-Levin, G., & Okon-Singer, H. (2020). Using machine learning-based analysis for behavioral differentiation between anxiety and depression. Scientific reports, 10(1), 1-12. Abado, E., Aue, T., & Okon-Singer, H. (2020). The Missing Pieces of the Puzzle: A Review on the Interactive Nature of A-Priori Expectancies and Attention Bias toward Threat. Brain Sciences, 10(10), 745. Wiener, A., Rohr, C. S., Naor, N., Villringer, A., & Okon-Singer, H. (2020). Emotion Regulation in Essential Hypertension: Roles of Anxiety, Stress, and the Pulvinar. Frontiers in Behavioral Neuroscience. Naor, N., Rohr, C., Schaare, L. H., Limbachia, C., Shamay-Tsoory, S., & Okon-Singer, H. (2020). The neural networks underlying reappraisal of empathy for pain. Social Cognitive and Affective Neuroscience, 15(7), 733-744. Wiener, A., Goldstein, P., Alkoby, O., Doenyas, K., & Okon‐Singer, H. (2020). Blood pressure reaction to negative stimuli: Insights from continuous recording and analysis. Psychophysiology, 57(4), e13525. Givon-Benjio, N., & Okon-Singer, H. (2020). Biased Estimations of Interpersonal Distance in Non-Clinical Social Anxiety. Journal of Anxiety Disorders, 102171. Dolcos, F., Katsumi, Y., Moore, M., Berggren, N., de Gelder, B., Derakshan, N., ... & Pegna, A. J. (2020). Neural correlates of emotion-attention interactions: From perception, learning, and memory to social cognition, individual differences, and training interventions. Neuroscience & Biobehavioral Reviews, 108, 559-601. Okon-Singer, H., Henik, A., & Gabay, S. (2020). Increased inhibition following negative cues: A possible role for enhanced processing. Cortex, 122, 131-139.
2020
Rohr, C. S., Dimond, D., Schuetze, M., Cho, I. Y., Lichtenstein-Vidne, L., Okon-Singer, H., ... & Bray, S. (2019). Girls’ attentive traits associate with cerebellar to dorsal attention and default mode network connectivity. Neuropsychologia, 127, 84-92. Schaare, H. L., Masouleh, S. K., Beyer, F., Kumral, D., Uhlig, M., Reinelt, J. D., ... & Roebbig, J. (2019). Association of peripheral blood pressure with gray matter volume in 19-to 40-year-old adults. Neurology, 92(8), e758-e773. Shani, R., Tal, S., Zilcha-Mano, S., & Okon-Singer, H. (2019). Can machine learning approaches lead toward personalized cognitive training?. Frontiers in behavioral neuroscience, 13, 64. Babayan, A., Erbey, M., Kumral, D., Reinelt, J. D., Reiter, A. M., Röbbig, J., ... & Horstmann, A. (2019). A mind-brain-body dataset of MRI, EEG, cognition, emotion, and peripheral physiology in young and old adults. Scientific data, 6.
2019
Okon-Singer, H., Henik, A., & Gabay, S. (2018). Increased inhibition following negative cues: A possible role for enhanced processing. Cortex. Aue, T., Guex, R., Chauvigné, L. A., Okon-Singer, H., & Vuilleumier, P. (2018). Expectancies influence attention to neutral but not necessarily to threatening stimuli: An fMRI study. Emotion. Naor, N., Shamay-Tsoory, S. G., Sheppes, G., & Okon-Singer, H. (2018). The impact of empathy and reappraisal on emotional intensity recognition. Cognition and Emotion, 32(5), 972-987. Okon-Singer, H. (2018). The role of attention bias to threat in anxiety: mechanisms, modulators and open questions. Current Opinion in Behavioral Sciences, 19, 26-30.
2018
Naor, N., Shamay-Tsoory, S. G., Sheppes, G., & Okon-Singer, H. (2017). The impact of empathy and reappraisal on emotional intensity recognition. Cognition and Emotion, 1-16. Lichtenstein-Vidne, L., Okon-Singer, H., Cohen, N., Todder, D., Aue, T., Nemets, B., & Henik, A. (2017). Attentional bias in clinical depression and anxiety: the impact of emotional and non-emotional distracting information. Biological psychology, 122, 4-12. Okon-Singer, H., & Aue, T. (2017). Neurocognitive mechanisms modulating attention bias in anxiety: Current perspectives. [Peer reviewed; Introduction to a special issue]. Biological psychology, 122, 1.
2017
2016
Rohr, C. S., Villringer, A., Solms‐Baruth, C., Meer, E., Margulies, D. S., & Okon‐Singer, H. (2016). The neural networks of subjectively evaluated emotional conflicts. Human Brain Mapping. Cohen, N., Margulies, D. S., Ashkenazi, S., Schäfer, A., Taubert, M., Henik, A., ... & Okon-Singer, H. (2016). Using executive control training to suppress amygdala reactivity to aversive information. NeuroImage, 125, 1022-1031. Aue, T., Chauvigné, L. A., Bristle, M., Okon-Singer, H., & Guex, R. (2016). Expectancy influences on attention to threat are only weak and transient: behavioral and physiological evidence. Biological psychology. Levy-Gigi, E., Richter-Levin, G., Okon-Singer, H., Kéri, S., & Bonanno, G. A. (2016). The hidden price and possible benefit of repeated traumatic exposure. Stress, 19(1), 1-7. Jacob, Y., Winetraub, Y., Raz, G., Ben-Simon, E., Okon-Singer, H., Rosenberg-Katz, K., ... & Ben-Jacob, E. (2016). Dependency Network Analysis (DEPNA) Reveals Context Related Influence of Brain Network Nodes. Scientific reports, 6, 27444. Cohen, N., Margulies, D. S., Ashkenazi, S., Schaefer, A., Taubert, M., Henik, A., ... & Okon-Singer, H. (2016). Using executive control training to suppress amygdala reactivity to aversive information. NeuroImage, 125, 1022-1031
Ben Simon, E, Oren, N., Sharon, H., Kirschner, A., Goldway, N., Okon-Singer, H., ... & Hendler, T. (2015). Losing neutrality: the neural basis of impaired emotional control without sleep. Journal of Neuroscience, 35(38), 13194-13205. Rohr, C. S., Dreyer, F., Aderka, I. M., Margulies, D. S., Frisch, S., Villringer, A., & Okon-Singer, H. . Individual Differences in Common Factors of Emotional Traits and Executive Functions predict Amygdala's Functional Connectivity. NeuroImage. 120, 154-163. Aue, T., & Okon-Singer, H. (2015). Expectancy biases in fear and anxiety and their link to biases in attention. Clinical psychology review, 42, 83-95. Hellrung, L., Hollmann, M., Zscheyge, O., Schlumm, T., Kalberlah, C., Roggenhofer, E., Okon-Singer, H., Villringer, A., & Horstmann, A. (2015). Flexible adaptive paradigms for fMRI using a novel software package 'Brain Analysis in Real-Time' (BART). PloS ONE, 10(4). Okon-Singer, H., Hendler, T., Pessoa, L., & Shackman, A. J. (2015). The Neurobiology of Emotion-Cognition Interactions: Fundamental Questions and Strategies for Future Research. Frontiers in Human Neuroscience, 9, 58.
2015
Arend, I., Henik, A., & Okon-Singer, H. (2014). Dissociating emotion and attention functions in the medial pulvinar nucleus of the thalamus. Neuropsychology. Naor, N., Ben-Ze’ev, A., & Okon-Singer, H. (2014). The modern search for the Holy Grail: is neuroscience a solution? Frontiers in Human Neuroscience, 8, 388. Okon-Singer, H., Mehnert, J., Hoyer, J., Hellrung, L., Schaare, H. L., Dukart, J., & Villringer, A. (2014). Neural Control of Vascular Reactions: Impact of Emotion and Attention. The Journal of Neuroscience, 34(12), 4251-4259. Okon-Singer, H., Hendler, T., Pessoa, L., & Shackman, A. J. (2014). Introduction to the Special Research Topic on the Neurobiology of Emotion-Cognition Interactions. Frontiers in Human Neuroscience, 8, 1051. Singer, N., Podlipsky, I., Esposito, F., Okon-Singer, H., Andelman, F., Kipervasser, S., Neufeld, M. Y., Goebel, R., Fried, I., & Hendler, T. (2014). Transient and sustained ECoG dynamics in temporo-limbic and prefrontal sites are associated with processing of emotional meaning in humans. Cortex, 60, 121-138.
2014
2013
Aue, T., Guex, R., Chauvigné, L. A., & Okon-Singer, H. (2013). Varying expectancies and attention bias in phobic and non-phobic individuals. Frontiers in human neuroscience, 7, 418. Sacher, J., Okon-Singer, H., & Villringer, A. (2013). Evidence from neuroimaging for the role of the menstrual cycle in the interplay of emotion and cognition. Frontiers in Human Neuroscience, 7. Rohr, C. S., Okon-Singer, H., Craddock, C. R., Villringer, A., & Margulies, D. (2013). Affect and the Brain's Functional Organization: A Resting-State Connectivity Approach. PloS one, 8(7), e68015. Ben-Simon, E., Podlipsky, I., Okon-Singer, H., Gruberger, M., Cvetkovic, D., Intrator, N. & Hendler, T. (2013). The Dark Side of the Alpha Rhythm: fMRI Evidence for Induced Alpha Modulation during Complete Darkness. The European Journal of Physiology, 37(5), 795-803. Sacher, J., Neumann, J., Okon-Singer, H., Gotowiec, S., & Villringer, A. (2013). Sexual Dimorphism in the Human Brain: Evidence from Neuroimaging. Magnetic Resonance Imaging, 31(3), 366-375. Okon-Singer, H., Lichtenstein-Vidne, L. & Cohen, N. (2013). Dynamic Modulation of Emotional Processing. Biological Psychology, 92(3), 480-491.
Okon-Singer, H., Podlipsky, I., Ben Simon, E., Zhdanov, A., Neufeld, M., Siman-Tov, T., & Hendler, T. (2011). Spatio-Temporal Indications of Sub-Cortical Involvement in Leftward Bias of Spatial Attention. NeuroImage, 54, 3010-3020. Okon-Singer, H., Kofman, O., Tzelgov, J. & Henik, A. (2011). Using International Emotional Picture Sets in Countries Suffering from Violence. Journal of Traumatic Stress, 24(2), 239-242. Okon-Singer, H., Alyagon, U., Kofman, O., Tzelgov, J., & Henik, A. (2011). Fear-Related Pictures Deteriorate Performance of University Students with High Fear from Snakes or Spiders. Stress, 14 (2), 185-193. Okon-Singer, H., Tzelgov, J., & Henik, A. (2007). Distinguishing between Automaticity and Attention in the Processing of Emotionally-Significant Stimuli. Emotion, 7, 147-157.
Earlier
2025
Machine learning meta-analysis identifies individual characteristics moderating cognitive intervention efficacy for anxiety and depression symptoms
Richter, T., Shani, R., Tal, S. et al.
2024
The subcortical role in executive functions: Neural mechanisms of executive inhibition in the flanker task
Neuroscience and Biobehavioral Reviews
2024
The relationship between interpersonal distance preference and estimation accuracy in autism
Givon-Benjio, N., Marx, T., Hartston, M., Aderka, I. M., Hadad, B. S., & Okon-Singer, H.
2024
Emotional stimuli boost incidental learning through predictive processing
Friedman-Oskar, M., Sahar, T., Makovski, T., & Okon-Singer, H.
2024
Mathematical anxiety is associated with reduced visuospatial working memory: the impact of emotional and spatial distracting information
S Ashkenazi, Y Danan, H Okon-Singer
2024
Disorder-specific versus transdiagnostic cognitive mechanisms in anxiety and depression: Machine-learning-based prediction of symptom severity
T Richter, S Stahi, G Mirovsky, H Hel-Or, H Okon-Singer
2024
Mathematical anxiety is associated with reduced visuospatial working memory: the impact of emotional and spatial distracting information
Ashkenazi, S., Danan, Y. & Okon-Singer, H.
2023
Cognitive Avoidance Is Associated with Decreased Brain Responsiveness to Threat Distractors under High Perceptual Load.
Günther, V., Strukova, M., Pecher, J., Webelhorst, C., Engelmann, S., Kersting, A., ... & Suslow, T.
2023
Spider vs. Guns: Expectancy and Attention Biases to Phylogenetic Threat Do Not Extend to Ontogenetic Threat.
Abado, E., Aue, T., & Okon-Singer, H.
2023
Using clustering algorithms to examine the association between working memory training trajectories and therapeutic outcomes among psychiatric and healthy populations.
Agassi, O. D., Hertz, U., Shani, R., Derakshan, N., Wiener, A., & Okon-Singer, H.
2022
The human affectome.
Schiller, D., Alessandra, N. C., Alia-Klein, N., Becker, S., Cromwell, H. C., Dolcos, F., ... & Smith, R. C.
2022
The role of fear in hierarchical processing of fear-related stimuli.
Givon-Benjio, N., & Okon-Singer, H.
Publications
Books
*For individual chapters, please feel free to contact us and we will send them to you.
Book Chapters
Richter, T., Shackman, A.J., Aue, T., & Okon-Singer, H. (2019). The neurobiology of emotion-cognition interactions. In Cognitive dimensions of major depressive disorder. Baune, B., & Harmer, C. (Eds.). Oxford University Press.
Special Issues
Okon-Singer, H., Hendler, T., Pessoa, L., & Shackman, A.J. (2015). Special research topic; and E-Book (Eds.). The neurobiology of emotion-cognition interactions. Frontiers in Human Neuroscience.
Okon-Singer, H., & Aue, T. (2017). Neurocognitive mechanisms modulating attention bias in anxiety - Current perspectives. Biological Psychology. Number of pages: 130. Special research topic.
Aue, T., & Okon-Singer, H. (2016). Determinants and associations of cognitive biases in fear and anxiety. Biological Psychology.
Articles
2022
Ram, Y., Collins-Kreiner, N., Gozansky, E., Moscona, G., & Okon-Singer, H. (2022). Is there a COVID-19 vaccination effect? A three-wave cross-sectional study. Current Issues in Tourism, 25(3), 379-386.
2021
2020
Givon‐Benjio, N., Oren‐Yagoda, R., Aderka, I. M., & Okon‐Singer, H. (2020). Biased distance estimation in social anxiety disorder: A new avenue for understanding avoidance behavior. Depression and Anxiety, 37(12), 1243-1252.
2019
2018
2017
2016
2015
2014
Singer, N., Podlipsky, I., Esposito, F., Okon-Singer, H., Andelman, F., Kipervasser, S., Neufeld, M. Y., Goebel, R., Fried, I., & Hendler, T. (2014). Transient and sustained ECoG dynamics in temporo-limbic and prefrontal sites are associated with processing of emotional meaning in humans. Cortex, 60, 121-138.
2013
Earlier
Okon-Singer, H., Podlipsky, I., Ben Simon, E., Zhdanov, A., Neufeld, M., Siman-Tov, T., & Hendler, T. (2011). Spatio-Temporal Indications of Sub-Cortical Involvement in Leftward Bias of Spatial Attention. NeuroImage, 54, 3010-3020.
Okon-Singer, H., Tzelgov, J., & Henik, A. (2007). Distinguishing between Automaticity and Attention in the Processing of Emotionally-Significant Stimuli. Emotion, 7, 147-157.