Biography

Journal Articles

• Pecchinenda, A., Yankouskaya, A., Boccia, M., Piccardi, L., Guariglia, C. and Giannini, A.M., 2024. Exploring the relationship between perceived loneliness and subjective cognitive decline in older individuals. Aging and Mental Health, 28 (1), 73-82.
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• Keyes, J., Yankouskaya, A. and Panourgia, C., 2023. Self-compassion, coping strategies and gender differences in psychology, counselling and psychotherapy practitioners during COVID-19: Lessons learnt. Counselling and Psychotherapy Research, 23 (4), 1052-1062.
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• Yankouskaya, A., Massey, H., Totman, J.J., Lai, L.H. and Williamson, R., 2023. The Effects of Whole-body Cold-water Immersion on Brain Connectivity Related to the Affective State in Adults Using fMRI: A Protocol of a Pre-post Experimental Design. Bio-protocol, 13 (17).
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• Yankouskaya, A., Lovett, G. and Sui, J., 2023. The relationship between self, value-based reward, and emotion prioritisation effects. Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology, 76 (4), 942-960.
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• Yankouskaya, A., Williamson, R., Stacey, C., Totman, J.J. and Massey, H., 2023. Short-Term Head-Out Whole-Body Cold-Water Immersion Facilitates Positive Affect and Increases Interaction between Large-Scale Brain Networks. Biology, 12 (2).
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• Taylor, Z., Yankouskaya, A. and Panourgia, C., 2023. Social media use, loneliness and psychological distress in emerging adults. Behaviour and Information Technology.
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• Pizzio, A.P.G., Yankouskaya, A., Alessandri, G., Loreto, S. and Pecchinenda, A., 2022. Social contacts and loneliness affect the own age bias for emotional faces. Scientific Reports, 12.
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• Viviani, G., De Luca, F., Antonucci, G., Yankouskaya, A. and Pecchinenda, A., 2022. It is not always positive: emotional bias in young and older adults. Psychological Research, 86 (6), 2045-2057.
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• Panourgia, C., Wezyk, A., Ventouris, A., Comoretto, A., Taylor, Z. and Yankouskaya, A., 2022. Individual factors in the relationship between stress and resilience in mental health psychology practitioners during the COVID-19 pandemic. Journal of Health Psychology, 27 (11), 2613-2631.
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• Yankouskaya, A., Denholm-Smith, T., Yi, D., Greenshaw, A.J., Cao, B. and Sui, J., 2022. Neural Connectivity Underlying Reward and Emotion-Related Processing: Evidence From a Large-Scale Network Analysis. Frontiers in Systems Neuroscience, 16.
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• Yankouskaya, A. and Sui, J., 2022. Self-prioritization is supported by interactions between large-scale brain networks. European Journal of Neuroscience, 55 (5), 1244-1261.
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• Massey, H., Gorczynski, P., Harper, C.M., Sansom, L., McEwan, K., Yankouskaya, A. and Denton, H., 2022. Perceived Impact of Outdoor Swimming on Health: Web-Based Survey. Interact J Med Res, 11 (1), e25589.
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• Aliche, C.J., Ifeagwazi, C.M., Yankouskaya, A., Comoretto, A., Wezyk, A., Ventouris, A. and Panourgia, C., 2021. Post-traumatic stress disorder and depressive symptoms following a Herdsmen attack: The role of life meaning in mediating trait mindfulness. Stress and Health, 37 (3), 528-537.
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• Yankouskaya, A. and Sui, J., 2021. Self‐positivity or self‐negativity as a function of the medial prefrontal cortex. Brain Sciences, 11 (2), 1-17.
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• Panourgia, K., Ventouris, A., Wezyk, A., Yankouskaya, A., Comoretto, A. and Taylor, Z., 2020. COVID-19: Vicarious traumatisation and resilience in Mental Health Psychology Practitioners.
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• Yankouskaya, A., Bührle, R., Lugt, E., Stolte, M. and Sui, J., 2020. Intertwining personal and reward relevance: evidence from the drift-diffusion model. Psychological Research, 84 (1), 32-50.
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• Yankouskaya, A., Boughey, A., McCagh, J., Neal, A., de Bezenac, C. and Davies, S.J., 2019. Illness Perception Mediates the Relationship Between the Severity of Symptoms and Perceived Health Status in Patients With Behçet Disease. J Clin Rheumatol, 25 (8), 319-324.
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• Yankouskaya, A., Palmer, D., Stolte, M., Sui, J. and Humphreys, G.W., 2017. Self-bias modulates saccadic control. Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology, 70 (12), 2577-2585.
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• Yankouskaya, A., Humphreys, G., Stolte, M., Stokes, M., Moradi, Z. and Sui, J., 2017. An anterior-posterior axis within the ventromedial prefrontal cortex separates self and reward. Social Cognitive and Affective Neuroscience, 12 (12), 1859-1868.
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• Moradi, Z., Mantini, D., Yankouskaya, A., Hewstone, M. and Humphreys, G.W., 2017. Changes in intrinsic functional connectivity and group relevant salience: The case of sport rivalry. Behavioural Brain Research, 332, 126-135.
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• Yankouskaya, A., Stolte, M., Moradi, Z., Rotshtein, P. and Humphreys, G., 2017. Integration of identity and emotion information in faces: fMRI evidence. Brain and Cognition, 116, 29-39.
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• Stolte, M., Humphreys, G., Yankouskaya, A. and Sui, J., 2017. Dissociating biases towards the self and positive emotion. Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology, 70 (6), 1011-1022.
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• Moradi, Z., Duta, M., Hewstone, M., Yankouskaya, A., Enock, F. and Humphreys, G.W., 2017. The rival doesn’t catch my eyes: In-group relevance modulates inhibitory control over anti-saccades. Visual Cognition, 25 (1-3), 366-380.
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• Moradi, Z., Yankouskaya, A., Duta, M., Hewstone, M. and Humphreys, G.W., 2015. Coactive processing of sensory signals for in-group but not out-group stimuli. Visual Cognition, 23 (9-10), 1124-1149.
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• Sui, J., Yankouskaya, A. and Humphreys, G.W., 2015. Super-capacity me! Super-capacity and violations of race independence for self-but not for reward-associated stimuli. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance, 41 (2), 441-452.
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• Yankouskaya, A., Humphreys, G.W. and Rotshtein, P., 2014. The processing of facial identity and expression is interactive, but dependent on task and experience. Frontiers in Human Neuroscience, 8 (November).
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• Yankouskaya, A., Humphreys, G.W. and Rotshtein, P., 2014. Differential interactions between identity and emotional expression in own and other-race faces: Effects of familiarity revealed through redundancy gains. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning Memory and Cognition, 40 (4), 1025-1038.
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• Yankouskaya, A., Rotshtein, P. and Humphreys, G.W., 2014. Interactions between identity and emotional expression in face processing across the lifespan: Evidence from redundancy gains. Journal of Aging Research, 2014 (1).
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• Yankouskaya, A., Booth, D.A. and Humphreys, G., 2012. Interactions between facial emotion and identity in face processing: Evidence based on redundancy gains. Attention, Perception, and Psychophysics, 74 (8), 1692-1711.
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Chapters

• Yankouskaya, A., Sui, J., Moradi, Z., Rotshtein, P. and Humphreys, G.W., 2017. Applications of Capacity Analysis into Social Cognition Domain. Systems Factorial Technology: A Theory Driven Methodology for the Identification of Perceptual and Cognitive Mechanisms. 381-400.
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Conferences

• Aydin, T., Yankouskaya, A. and Hills, P., 2022. Investigation of social media platform preferences depending on who they contacted. In: The 14th Annual Postgraduate Research Conference 30 November 2022 Bournemouth University.
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• Ventouris, A., Wezyk, A., Panourgia, K., Comoretto, A. and Yankouskaya, A., 2021. Keep the bounce in your step: Developing resilience as a Mental Health Psychology Practitioner during Covid -19. In: 3rd International Conference on Psychology, Counselling and Education : Redefining Resilience 29-31 October 2021 virtual conference.
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PhD Students

• Marianna Constantinou, (In progress)
• Natasha Burns, (In progress)
• Gemma Lovett, 2024. Interaction between self-, reward-, emotion biases across lifespan, (In progress)

Profile of Teaching PG

• Advanced Research Methods, Experimental Design in Cognitive Neuroscience

Profile of Teaching UG

• Biological Psychology (Level 5), Neuroimaging (Level 6)

Grants

• Understanding resilience in mental health workers during the COVID-19 pandemic (follow-up) (BU QR-fund, 01 Nov 2021). Completed
• Understanding resilience in mental health psychology practitioners during the COVID-19 pandemic (BU QR-fund, 01 May 2020). Completed

Journal Reviewing/Refereeing

• ocial Cognitive and Affective Neuroscience, Anonymous peer review, 18 Jun 2023
• Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology, Open peer review, 05 Apr 2023
• Cognition, Anonymous peer review, 06 Mar 2023
• Psychophysiology, Anonymous peer review, 02 Jan 2023
• Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, 04 Jul 2022
• Scientific Reports, Open peer review, 20 May 2022
• Brain Sciences, Anonymous peer review, 01 Mar 2022
• NeuroImage, Anonymous peer review, 01 Mar 2022
• Journal of Integrative Neuroscience, Anonymous peer review, 06 Jan 2022
• Behavioural Brain Research, Anonymous peer review, 01 Dec 2021
• Brain Sciences, Anonymous peer review, 01 Nov 2021
• Human Brain Mapping, Anonymous peer review, 11 Sep 2021
• Brain Sciences, Anonymous peer review, 15 May 2021
• Developmental Science, Anonymous peer review, 15 Apr 2021
• Vision Research, Anonymous peer review, 19 Jan 2021
• Cognition, Anonymous peer review, 04 Aug 2020
• Psychophysiology, Anonymous peer review, 21 Dec 2019
• Philosophical Psychology, Anonymous peer review, 01 Dec 2019
• Acta Psychologica, Anonymous peer review, 04 Nov 2019
• Research Methods for Cognitive Neuroscience (three book chapters), Open peer review, 04 Sep 2018
• Brain and Cognition, Anonymous peer review, 02 Jun 2017
• Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology, Anonymous peer review, 15 Oct 2015
• Developmental Science, Anonymous peer review, 09 Sep 2015

Public Engagement & Outreach Activities

• Can cold water enhance mood? (18 Mar 2023-19 Mar 2023)
• To swim or not to swim. The positive effects of cold water on mental health (16 Mar 2023)
• The effects of cold water immersion on mental health (09 Mar 2023)
• The brain scan that proves cold water really IS good for you (07 Feb 2023)

Conference Presentations

• BPS:Cognitive Psychology Section Annual Conference, Large-scale brain networks support self-prioritisation effects, 02 Sep 2021, London
• BPS Conference 2021: Positive Adaptations: Psychological Strengths, Risk and resilience in mental health psychology practitioners during the COVID-19 pandemic., 01 Jul 2021, virtual
• Experimental Psychology Society, It is not always positive: Emotional bias in Young and Older Adults, 06 Jan 2021, Online
• Experimental Psychology Society, Interactive processing between identity and emotions in faces, 10 Jul 2019, Bournemouth University

Attended Training

• Scitech Established Supervisor Training, 18 May 2022

Broadcast Interview

• BBC Breakfast Shows, Short-term head-out whole-body cold-water immersion facilitates positive affect and increases interaction between large-scale brain networks, Yankouskaya, A, 07 Mar 2023. https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/p0f2v4fn
• Radio Solent Isle of Wight, Short-term head-out whole-body cold-water immersion facilitates positive affect and increases interaction between large-scale brain networks, Yankouskaya, A, 07 Mar 2023