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Recent Publications

In press

Milshtein, D. & Henik, A. (in press).

Actor mindreading: Cognitive processes underpinning theories and practices of european stage acting in the eighteenth century.

Comparative Drama.

Hershman, R., Levin, Y., Tzelgov, J., & Henik, A. (in press).

The contribution of meaning to the detection of task conflict.

Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology. Online DOI: 10.1177/17470218211001331

2021

Sapir, A., Hershman, R., & Henik, A. (2021).

Top-down effect on pupillary response: evidence from shape from shading.

Cognition. 212, 104664.

Hershman, R., Levin, Y., Tzelgov, J., & Henik, A. (2021).

Neutral stimuli and pupillometric task conflict.

Psychological Research. 85(3), 1084–1092 https://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s00426-020-01311-6

Linkovski, O., Rodriguez, C. I., Wheaton, M. G., Henik, A., & Anholt, G. E. (2021).

Momentary Induction of Inhibitory Control and Its Effects on Uncertainty.

Journal of Cognition, 4(1): 10, 1–15. doi.org/10.5334/ joc.133

Binyamin-Suissa, L., Hochman, S., Moyal, N., & Henik, A. (2021).

Perspective taking effects are modulated by the valence of stimuli.

Acta Psychologica, 215, 103267. doi:10.1016/j.actpsy.2021.103267.

Henik, A., Bar-Hen-Schweiger, M., Milshtein, D., & Jamaludin, A. (2021).

Yes, memorize.

Mind, Brain and Education, 15, 18-23.

2020

Schmidt, C. C., Timpert, D. C., Arend, I., Vossel, S., Fink, G. R., Henik, A. & Weiss, P. H. (2020).

Control of response interference: caudate nucleus contributes to selective inhibition.

Scientific Reports, 10, Article 20977. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-020-77744-1

Rotem, A. & Henik, A. (2020).

Multiplication facts and number sense in children with mathematics learning disabilities and typical achievers.

Cognitive Development, 54, 100866. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cogdev.2020.100866

Okon-Singer, H., Henik, A., & Gabay, S. (2020).

Increased inhibition following negative cues: A possible role for enhanced processing. 

Cortex. 122, 131-139. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cortex.2018.12.008

Milshtein, D. Hochman, S., & Henik, A. (2020).

Do you feel like me or not? This is the question: Manipulation of emotional imagery modulates affective priming.

Consciousness and Cognition, 85, Article 103026. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.concog.2020.103026.

Milshtein, D., & Henik, A. (2020).

I read, I imagine, I feel: Feasibility, imaginability and intensity of emotional experience as fundamental dimensions for norming scripts.

Basic and Applied Social Psychology, 42, 432-459. https://doi.org/10.1080/01973533.2020.1796670.

Katzin, N., Katzin, D., Rosen, A., Henik, A., & Salti, M. (2020).

Putting the world in mind: The case of mental representation of quantity.

Cognition, 195, 104088. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cognition.2019.104088.

Hochman, S., Leshem, S., Henik, A., & Kalanthroff, E. (2020).

Conditioning automatic inhibition task: Introducing a novel task to associate automatic inhibition with specific cues.

Neuroscience Methods, 342, 108809. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jneumeth.2020.108809

Hochman, S., Cohen, Z. Z., Ben-Shachar, M. S., & Henik, A. (2020).

Tactile enumeration and embodied numerosity among the deaf.

Cognitive Science, 44: e12880. Doi:10.1111/cogs.12880

Hershman, R. & Henik, A. (2020).

Pupillometric contributions to deciphering Stroop conflicts.

Memory & Cognition, 48, 325-333. https://doi.org/10.3758/s13421-019-00971-z

Ganor-Stern, D., Gliksman, Y., Naparstek, S., Ifergane, G., & Henik, A. (2020).

Damage to the intraparietal sulcus impairs magnitude representations of results of complex arithmetic problems.

Neuroscience, 438, 137-144. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.neuroscience.2020.05.006

Gabay, Y., Gabay, S., Schiff, R., & Henik, A. (2020).

Visual and auditory interference control of attention in developmental dyslexia.

Journal of the International Neuropsychological Society. 26(4), 407-417. https://doi.org/10.1017/S135561771900122X

Bar-Hen-Schweiger, M., & Henik, A. (2020).

The transition of object to mental manipulation: Beyond a species-specific view of intelligence. 

Animal Cognition, 23, 691-701. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10071-020-01375-2

2019

Gliksman, Y. & Henik, A. (in press).

Size matters! Automaticity of conceptual size in learning disabilities.

Literacy and Language, 7, 66-83. (Hebrew).

Geva, D. & Henik, A. (2019).

Perspective taking in judgement of relative direction tasks.

Memory & Cognition. 47, 1215-1230.

Katzin, N., Salti, M., & Henik, A. (2019).

Holitstic processing of numerical arrays.

Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition, 45, 1014-1022. http://dx.doi.org/10.1037/xlm0000640

Katzin, N., Cohen, Z., & Henik, A. (2019).

If it looks, sounds or feels like subitizing - is it subitizing? A modulated definition of subitizing.

Psychonomic Bulletin & Review, 26, 790–797. https://doi.org/10.3758/s13423-018-1556-0

Jamaludin, A., Henik, A., & Hale, J. B. (2019).

Educational neuroscience: bridging theory and practice.

Learning: Research and Practice, 5, 93-98

Hershman, R. & Henik, A. (2019).

Dissociation between reaction time and pupil dilation in the Stroop task.

Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition. E-pub ahead of print. DOI: 10.1037/xlm0000690

Hershman, R., Henik, A., & Cohen, N. (2019).

CHAP: Open-source software for processing and analyzing pupillometry data.

Behavior Research Methods. 51(3), 1059-1074. doi: 10.3758/s13428-018-01190-1

Arend, I., Yuen, K., Ashkenazi, S., & Henik, A. (2019).

Space counts! Brain correlates of spatial and numerical representations in synaesthesia. 

Cortex. E-pub ahead of print. DOI: 10.1016/j.cortex.2018.11.006

Binyamin-Suissa, L., Moyal, N., Naim, A. & Henik, A. (2019).

Perspective taking and emotion: The case of disgust and sadness.

Consciousness and Cognition. 74, 102773. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.concog.2019.102773

Gliksman, Y., & Henik, A. (2019).

Enumeration and alertness in developmental dyscalculia.

Journal of Cognition, 2:5, 1-13.

Bar-Hen-Schweiger, Moran and Henik, Avishai (2019).

Intelligence as mental manipulation in humans and nonhuman animals.

Animal Sentience, 23, 31.

2018

Weinbach, N., Sher, H., Lock, J. D., & Henik, A. (2018).

Attention networks in adolescent anorexia nervosa. 

European Child & Adolescent Psychiatry, 27, 343-351.

Schmidt, C. C., Timpert, D. C., Arend, I., Vossel, S., Dovern, A., Saliger, J., Karbe, H., Fink, G. R., Henik, A. & Weiss, P. H. (2018).

Preserved but less efficient control of response interference after unilateral lesions of the striatum.

Frontiers in Human Neuroscience, 12, 414.

Reynvoet, B., Vos, H., & Henik, A. (2018).

Comparative judgement of familiar objects is modulated by their size.

Experimental Psychology, 65, 353-359.

Reznik, D., Gertner-Saad, L., Even-Furst, H., Henik, A., Ben Mair, E., Shechter-Amir, D., & Soffer-Dudek, N. (2018).

Oneiric synesthesia: preliminary evidence for the occurrence of synesthetic-like experiences during sleep-inertia.

Psychology of Consciousness: Theory, Research, and Practice, 5, 374-383.

Moyal, N., Henik, A., & Anholt, G. E. (2018).

Categorized affective pictures database (CAP-D).

Journal of Cognition, 1, 41.

Leibovich-Raveh, T., Stein, I., Henik, A., & Salti, M. (2018).

Number and continuous magnitude processing depends on task goals and numerosity ratio.

Journal of Cognition, 1: 19.

Katzin, N., Salti, M., Henik, A. (2018).

Holistic processing of numerical arrays.

Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition.

Kalanthroff, E., Davelaar, E. J., Henik, A., Goldfarb, L., Usher, M. (2018).

Task conflict and proactive control: A computational theory of the Stroop task. 

Psychological Review, 125, 59-82.

Hershman, R., Henik, A., & Cohen, N. (2018).

A novel blink detection method based on pupillometry noise .

Behavior Research Methods, 50, 107–114.

Gliksman, Y., & Henik, A. (2018).

Conceptual size in developmental dyscalculia and dyslexia .

Neuropsychology, 32, 190-198.

Arend, I., Yuen, K., Sagi, N., & Henik, A. (2018).

Neuroanatomical basis of number synaesthesias : A voxel-based morphometry study .

Cortex, 101, 172-180.

Aisenberg, D., Sapir, A., Close, A., Henik, A., & d'Avossa, G. (2018).

Right anterior cerebellum BOLD responses reflect age related changes in Simon task sequential effects .

Neuropsychologia, 109, 155-164.

2017

Weinbach, N., Perry, A., Sher, H., Lock, J. D., & Henik, A. (2017).

Weak central coherence in weight-restored adolescent anorexia nervosa: Characteristics and remediation.

International Journal of Eating Disorders, 50, 924–932.

Salti, M., Katzin, N., Katzin, D., Leibovich, T., & Henik, A. (2017).

One tamed at a time: A new approach for controlling continuous magnitudes in numerical comparison tasks.

Behavior Research Methods, 49, 1120–1127.

Leibovich, T., Katzin, N., Harel, M., & Henik, A. (2017).

From “sense of number” to “sense of magnitude”: The role of continuous magnitudes in numerical cognition.

Behavioral and Brain Sciences,40, e164.

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.

Lichtenstein-Vidne, L., Gabay, S., Cohen, N., & Henik, A. (2017).

Lateralisation of emotions: evidence from pupil size measurement.

Cognition and Emotion, 31, 699-711.

Kalanthroff, E., Henik, A., Simpson H. B., Todder, D., & Anholt, G. E. (2017).

To Do or Not to Do? Task Control Deficit in Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder

Behavior Therapy, 48, 603-613.

Henik, A., Gliksman, Y., Kallai, A., & Leibovich, T. (2017).

Size Perception and the Foundation of Numerical Processing

Current Directions in Psychological Science, 26, 45-51.

Gronau, N., Izoutcheev, A., Nave, T., & Henik, A. (2017).

Counting distance : Effects of egocentric distance on numerical perception.

PLoS ONE 12: e0174772. .

Gliksman, Y., Naparstek, S., Ifergane, G., & Henik, A. (2017).

Visual and Imagery Magnitude Comparisons Are Affected Following Left Parietal Lesion.

Frontiers in Psychology 8:1622.

Fruchtman-Steinbok, T., Salzer, Y., Henik, A., & Cohen, N. (2017).

The interaction between emotion and executive control: Comparison between visual, auditory, and tactile modalities.

Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology, 70, 1675-1674.

Dadon, G., & Henik, A. (2017).

Adjustment of control in the numerical Stroop task

Memory & Cognition, 45, 891–902.

Bar-Hen-Schweiger, M., Schweiger, A., & Henik, A. (2017).

G but not g: In search of the evolutionary continuity of intelligence

Behavioral and Brain Sciences, 40, e199.

Arend, I., & Henik, A. (2017).

What Can Illusory Conjunctions Reveal About Synaesthetic Bindings?

Multisensory Research, 30, 235-251.

Arend, I., Ashkenazi, S., Yuen, K., Ofir, S., Henik, A. (2017).

Automatic numerical-spatial association in synaesthesia : An fMRI investigation.

Neuropsychologia, 95, 259-266.

Anaki, D., & Henik, A. (2017).

Bidirectionality in synesthesia and metaphor.

Poetics Today, 38, 141-161.

2016

Leibovich, T., Cohen, N., & Henik, A. (2016).

Itsy bitsy spider? It depends…

frontiers for Young Minds, 4:29.

Leibovich, T., Cohen, N., & Henik, A.(2016).

Itsy bitsy spider? Valence and self-relevance predict size estimation.

Biological Psychology, 121, 138-145.

Tanzer, M., Weinbach, N., Mardo, E., Henik, A., & Avidan, G. (2016).

Phasic alertness enhances processing of face and non-face stimuli in congenital prosopagnosia.

Neuropsychologia, 89, 299-308.

Rinaldi, L., Di Luca, S., Henik, A., & Girelli, L. (2016).

A helping hand putting in order: Visuomotor routines organize numerical and non-numerical sequences in space.

Cognition, 152, 40-52.

Lichtenstein-Vidne, L., Gabay, S., Cohen, N., and Henik, A. (2016).

Lateralisation of emotions: evidence from pupil size measurement.

Cognition and Emotion.

Leibovich, T., Vogel, S. E., Henik, A., & Ansari, D. (2016).

Asymmetric Processing of Numerical and Nonnumerical Magnitudes in the Brain: An fMRI Study.

Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience, 28, 166-176.

Kalanthroff, E., Henik, A., Derakshan, N., & Usher, M. (2016).

Anxiety, emotional distraction, and attentional control in the Stroop task.

Emotion, 16, 293-300.

Gliksman, Y., Weinbach, N., & Henik, A. (2016).

Alerting cues enhance the subitizing process.

Acta Psychologica, 170, 139-145.

Cohen, Z. Z., & Henik, A. (2016).

Effects of Numerosity Range on Tactile and Visual Enumeration.

Perception, 45, 83-98.

Cohen, N., Margulies, D. S., Ashkenazi, S., Schaefer, A., Taubert, M., Henik, A., Villringer, A., Okon-Singer, H. (2016).

Using executive control training to suppress amygdala reactivity to aversive information.

NeuroImage, 125, 1022-1031.

Arend, I., Weiss, P. H., Timpert, D. C., Fink, G. R., & Henik, A. (2016).

Spatial Coding as a Function of Handedness and Responding Hand: Theoretical and Methodological Implications.

PLoS One, 11: e0151979.

Arend, I., Ofir, S., & Henik, A. (2016).

What spatial coordinate defines color-space synesthesia?

Brain and Cognition, 105, 88-94.

Arend, I., Aisenberg, D., & Henik, A. (2016).

Social priming of hemispatial neglect affects spatial coding: Evidence from the Simon task.

Consciousness and Cognition, 45, 1-8.

Gliksman, Y., Itamar, S., Leibovich, T., Melman, Y., & Henik, A. (2016).

Automaticity of Conceptual Magnitude.

Scientific Reports, 6: 21446.

Gabay, S., Kalanthroff, E., Henik, A., & Gronau, N. (2016).

Conceptual size representation in ventral visual cortex.

Neuropsychlogia, 81, 198-206.

Cohen, N., Moyal, N., Lichtenstein-Vidne, L., & Henik, A. (2016).

Explicit vs. implicit emotional processing: The interaction between processing type and executive control.

Cognition and Emotion, 30, 325-339.

Task conflict and proactive control : A computational theory of the Stroop task .

Neuroanatomical basis of number synaesthesias : A voxel-based morphometry study .

Right anterior cerebellum BOLD responses reflect age related changes in Simon task sequential effects .

Right anterior cerebellum BOLD responses reflect age related changes in Simon task sequential effects .

Participants are slower to report a feature, such as color, when the target appears on the side opposite the instructed response, than when the target appears on the same side. This finding suggests that target location, even when task -irrelevant, interferes with response selection. This effect is magnified in older adults. Lengthening the inter-trial interval, however, suffices to normalize the congruency effect in older adults, by re-establishing young-like sequential effects (Aisenberg et al., 2014). We examined the neurological correlates of age related changes by comparing BOLD signals in young and old participants performing a visual version of the Simon task . Participants reported the color of a peripheral target, by a left or right -hand keypress. Generally, BOLD responses were greater following incongruent than congruent targets. Also, they were delayed and of smaller amplitude in old than young participants. BOLD responses in visual and motor regions were also affected by the congruency of the previous target, suggesting that sequential effects may reflect remapping of stimulus location onto the hand used to make a response. Crucially, young participants showed larger BOLD responses in right anterior cerebellum to incongruent targets, when the previous target was congruent, but smaller BOLD responses to incongruent targets when the previous target was incongruent. Old participants, however, showed larger BOLD responses to congruent than incongruent targets, irrespective of the previous target congruency. We conclude that aging may interfere with the trial by trial updating of the mapping between the task -irrelevant target location and response, which takes place during the inter-trial interval in the cerebellum and underlays sequential effects in a Simon task .

Lateralisation of emotions: evidence from pupil size measurement.

Recent Publications

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2018

2017​​

2016​

Task conflict and proactive control : A computational theory of the Stroop task .

Task conflict and proactive control : A computational theory of the Stroop task .

Neuroanatomical basis of number synaesthesias : A voxel-based morphometry study .

Right anterior cerebellum BOLD responses reflect age related changes in Simon task sequential effects .

In press

2017

2016