Sabancı Üniversitesi Psikoloji Programı

Olesya Blazhenkova

Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences
Faculty Member

(216) 483 9000 / 3183

olesya@sabanciuniv.edu

Personal Web

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

Jobs

Faculty Member

Education

2006 - 2008, PhD in Psychology, George Mason University, USA

2002 - 2005, MA in Psychology, Rutgers University, USA

1991 - 1996, BS & MS in Psychology, Moscow State University, Russia

Areas of Interest

My research focuses on individual differences in visualization abilities and styles, from both theoretical and applied perspectives. It investigates the dissociation between different types of visualization among individuals of different ages and specializations. Specifically, I am interested in the differences between object visualization (representation and processing of the literal appearances of objects in terms of their pictorial properties such as shape, color, and texture) and spatial visualization (representation and processing of spatial relations, locations of objects in space, and spatial transformations). My research includes studies with children, college students and members of different professions that involve group, individual, quantitative and qualitative assessment. RESEARCH AREA KEYWORDS: Visual-spatial cognition; Visual Imagery; Visualization abilities; Individual differences; Imagery Development; Boundary Extension.

Memberships

American Psychological Association Psychonomic Society

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.