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Olesya Blazhenkova Sanat ve Sosyal Bilimler Fakültesi Öğretim Üyesi (216) 483 9000 / 3183 olesyablazhenkovasabanciunivedu

Personal Web

http://myweb.sabanciuniv.edu/olesya/

Jobs

Öğretim Üyesi

Education

2006 - 2008, PhD Psikoloji, George Mason University, ABD

2002 - 2005, MA Psikoloji, Rutgers University, ABD

1991 - 1996, BS & MS Psikoloji, Moscow State University, Rusya

Areas of Interest

Görsel-konumsal biliş; Görsel imgeleme; Görselleştirme becerileri; Bireysel farklılıklar; İmgeleme gelişimi; Oyuncaklar; Oyun.

Blazhenkova, Olesya and Dogerlioglu-Demir, Kivilcim and Booth, Robert (2025) "Rankings of curved and sharp-angled drawings: frames and evaluation criteria", Art & Perception, Vol.13, No.3, 256-286 (ESCI)

Blazhenkova, Olesya and Kotov, Alexey and Kotova, Tatyana (2025) "How people estimate the prevalence of aphantasia and hyperphantasia in the population", Consciousness and Cognition, Vol.133 (SSCI)

Algın, İlayda Efsane and Ayalp, Aylin and Blazhenkova, Olesya (2025) "Individual differences in object imagery, spatial imagery, verbal skills, and personality in relation to centrality of positive and negative events", Applied Cognitive Psychology, Vol.39, No.4 (SSCI)

Pechenkova, Ekaterina and Rachinskaya, Mary and Vasilenko, Varvara and Blazhenkova, Olesya and Mershina, Elena (2025) "Brain functional connectivity during first- and third-person visual imagery", Vision (Switzerland), Vol.9, No.2 (ESCI)

Blazhenkova, Olesya and Kanero, Junko and Duman, İrem and Ümitli, Özgenur (2025) "Read and imagine: visual imagery experience evoked by first versus second language", Psychological Reports, Vol.128, No.2, 1067-1100 (SSCI)

Blazhenkova, Olesya and Döğerlioğlu Demir, Kıvılcım and Booth, Robert (2022) "Masked emotions: do face mask patterns and colors affect the recognition of emotions?", Cognitive Research: Principles and Implications, Vol.7, No.1 (SSCI)

Bağcı, Çiğdem and Blazhenkova, Olesya (2020) "Unjudge someone: human library as a tool to reduce prejudice toward stigmatized group members", Basic and Applied Social Psychology, Vol.42, No.6, 413-431 (SSCI)

Blazhenkova, Olesya and Döğerlioğlu Demir, Kıvılcım (2020) "The shape of the pill: perceived effects, evoked bodily sensations and emotions", PLoS One, Vol.15, No.9 (SCI, SSCI)

Blazhenkova, Olesya and Kozhevnikov, Maria (2020) "Creative processes during a collaborative drawing task in teams of different specializations", Creative Education, Vol.11, No.9, 1751-1775 (NA)

Blazhenkova, Olesya and Booth, Robert (2020) "Individual differences in visualization and childhood play preferences", Heliyon, Vol.6, No.6 (SCI)

Blazhenkova, Olesya and Pechenkova, Ekaterina (2019) "The two eyes of the blind mind: object vs. spatial aphantasia?", Russian Journal of Cognitive Science, Vol.6, No.4, 51-65 (NA)

Blazhenkova, Olesya and Kumar, Melisa Maya (2018) "Angular versus curved shapes: correspondences and emotional processing", Perception, Vol.47, No.1, 67-89 (SCI, SSCI)

Blazhenkova, Olesya (2017) "Boundary extension in face processing", i-Perception, Vol.8, No.5 (SSCI)

Blazhenkova, Olesya and Kozhevnikov, Maria (2016) "Types of creativity and visualization in teams of different educational specialization", Creativity Research Journal, Vol.28, No.2, 123-135 (SSCI)

Blazhenkova, Olesya (2016) "Vividness of object and spatial imagery", Perceptual and Motor Skills, Vol.122, No.2, 490-508 (SSCI)

Kozhevnikov, Maria and Kozhevnikov, Michael and Yu, Chen Jiao and Blazhenkova, Olesya (2013) "Creativity, visualization abilities, and visual cognitive style", British Journal of Educational Psychology, Vol.83, No.2, 196-209 (SSCI)

Kozhevnikov, Maria and Schloerb, David W. and Blazhenkova, Olesya and Koo, Samuel and Karimbux, Nadeem and Donoff, R. Bruce and Salcedo, Jairo (2013) "Egocentric versus allocentric spatial ability in dentistry and haptic virtual reality training", Applied Cognitive Psychology, Vol.27, No.3, 373-383 (SSCI)

Blazhenkova, O. & Kozhevnikov, M. (2011) "Intellectual Styles in Members of Different Professions". In Handbook of Intellectual Styles: Preferences in Cognition, Learning, and Thinking, ed. Li-Fang Zhang, Robert J. Sternberg, Stephen Rayner. New York: Springer Publishing Company.

Blazhenkova, O., Kozhevnikov, M., & Becker, M. (2011). Object-Spatial Imagery and Verbal cognitive styles in children and adolescences. Learning and Individual Differences, 21 (3), 281-287.

Blazhenkova, O. & Kozhevnikov, M. (2010). Visual-object ability: A new dimension of non-verbal intelligence. Cognition, 117 (3), 276-301.

Kozhevnikov, M., Blazhenkova, O., & Becker, M. (2010). Trade-off in Object versus Spatial Visualization Abilities: Restriction in the Development of Visual Processing Resources. Psychonomic Bulletin & Review, 17, 29-35.

Blazhenkova, O. & Kozhevnikov, M. (2009). The new object-spatial-verbal cognitive style model: Theory and measurement. Applied Cognitive Psychology, 23 (5), 638-663.

Kozhevnikov, M., Blazhenkova, O., Royan, J., & Gorbunov, A. (2008). The Role of Immersivity in Three-Dimensional Mental Rotation. Proceedings of the Third International Conference on Design Computing and Cognition. Gero, John S., Goel, Ashok K. (Eds.), 738p.

Blajenkova, O., Kozhevnikov, M., & Motes, M. A. (2006). Object-spatial imagery: A new self-report imagery questionnaire. Applied Cognitive Psychology, 20, 239-263.

Kozhevnikov, M., Motes, M., Rasch, B., & Blajenkova, O. (2006). Perspective-taking vs. mental rotation transformations and how they predict spatial navigation performance. Applied Cognitive Psychology, 20, 397–417.

Blajenkova, O., Motes, M., & Kozhevnikov, M. (2005). Individual differences in the representations of novel environments. Journal of Environmental Psychology, 25, 97-109.