Alumni

Alumni

Student's name	Supervisor's name	Thesis topic	Degree awarded	When	Current position
Kalina Christoff	Kokinov	"Context Effects on Problem Solving"	M.Sc.	1997	Ph.D. from Stanford; Postdoc at Cambridge Assist. Prof. at the University of British Columbia
Alexander Petrov	Kokinov	"A Dynamic Emergent Computational Model of Analogy-Making Based on Decentralized Representations"	PhD	1998	Postdoc at Carnegie-Mellon University; Postdoc at the University of California, Irvine,Postdoc at the University of Colorado, Boulder; Assist. Prof. at the State Univ. of Ohio
Andrea Kulakov	Kokinov	"Vygovorotsky--A Model of an Anticipative and Analogy-Making Actor"	M.Sc.	1998	Assist. Prof. at Skopie University
Alexander Repeko	Stoycheva,Gurova	"Uderstanding Metaphorical Statements."	M.Sc.	1999	Assist. Prof.at Belarusian State University
Armine Janyan	Andonova Andonova,Popivanov	"The Role of Mental Imagery in Understanding Unknown Idioms" "Visual Field and Hemispheric Differences in Word Naming and Picture Naming Tasks: RT and EEG Studies"	M.Sc. Ph.D.	1999 2002	Postdoc at New Bulgarian University
Constantin-Mugurel Badarau	Andonova	"The Role of Grammatical Gender and Number in Language Processing in Romanian and Bulgarian Monolinguals and in Romanian-Bulgarian Bilinguals"	M.Sc.	1999
Nataly Radchikova	Gerganov	"Dynamics of Basic-Level Cathegories"	M.Sc.	1999	Assist. Prof. at Belarusan State Pedagogical University
Volodimir Ivanchenko	Kokinov	"The Role of Abstract Patterns in Implicit Learning"	M.Sc.	2000	Ph.D. from the University of Rochester Research fellow at the Naval Postgraduate School at Monterey, CA
Ivaylo Vlaev	Kokinov	"Context Effects on Problem Solving. Exploring Different Aspects of the Process by Applying the Thinking - Aloud Method"	M.Sc.	2000	Ph.D. from Oxford Post-doc at the University of Warwick and University College London
Mircha Radu Luchianov	Mateeff	"COGS MoStaCon. Usability Study for an Experiment - Design Tool"	M.Sc.	2000	Ph.D. student at Carlton University
Neda Zareva-Toncheva	Kokinov Kokinov	"Interaction Between Memory and Reasoning: Episode Blending as a Result of Analogical Problem Solving" "Blending of Dissimilar Episodes as a Result of Analogy - Making"	M.Sc. Ph.D.	2001 2003	HR manager Kaufland Bulgaria
Nigel Moyse	Kokinov	"Context in Problem Solving: the Possible Impacts of Peripheral Images on Problem Solving"	M.Sc.	2001
Adrian Murzak	Vassilev	"The Spatio-Temporal Characteristics of the Amblyopic Visual System: an Attempt to Differentiate between the Parvo and Mango Pathways" “A Comparative Study of Temporal Characteristics of the Processing of S-cone Incremental and Decremental Signals”	M.Sc. Ph.D.	2001 2004
Ivaylo Panov	Mateeff	"The Judgement of Similarity between Figures Presented in the Left and in the Right Visual Hemi-Field"	M.Sc.	2001
Lora Likova	Tylor, Popivanov	"Spatiotemporal Relationships in the Perception of Dynamic Three-Dimensional Scenes"	Ph.D.	2002	Postdoc at Smith-Ketflewell Eye Research Institute, San Francisco, USA (CA)
Milena Leneva	Pencheva	"Analogical Problem Solving and Cognitive Style"	M.Sc.	2002	Research Assistant at Ben Gurion University, Israel Founder and head of an e-learning company “Future Now”
Avgis Hadjipapas	Popivanov	"Working Memory Processes Described by Means of Electrical Brain Oscillations in Human EEG"	M.Sc.	2002	PhD at Aston University, UK; Post-doc at Aston University, UK
Adrian Nestor	Andonova Grinberg Kokinov	"Semantic and Associative Effects in Speech Production" “Active Vision in the DUAL Cognitive Architecture”	M.Sc. Ph.D.	2003 2004	Postdoc at Brown University
Claudia Dana Murzac	Andonova	"Word Gender Influence Upon Word Processing: Similarities and Difference Across Visual Fields"	M.Sc.	2003	PhD students at New Bulgarian University
Daniela Raeva	Kokinov	"Distant Context Effects on Individual Decision - Making"	M.Sc.	2003	Ph.D. student at Scuola Normale Superiore di Pisa, University of Trento
Georgi Petkov	Kokinov	"DUAL - Based Model for Judgment of Stimuli with an Explicitey Given Magnitude of the Rated Property" “JUDGEMAP – 2: A Model of Judgment Based on the Cognitive Architecture DUAL”	M.Sc. Ph.D.	2003 2005	Assist. Prof. at New Bulgarian University
Penka Hristova	Kokinov	"The Role of Activation in Judgments. How the Comparison Set is Formed" “Does Irrelevant Information Influence Judgment?”	M.Sc. Ph.D.	2003 2005	Assist. Prof. at New Bulgarian University
Boyka Bratanova	Kokinov	"Comparison, Connectivity, and Attention in Memory for Pictures"	M.Sc.	2003	Ph. D. student at the University of Melbourne
Anelia Mitkova	Kokinov	“Context Influence in Analogical Problem Solving”	M.Sc	2004	Research fellow at the Military Research Institute of Psychology
Kamelia Dimova	Gerganov	“Eye Movements and Dwell Times During Perception of a Necker Cube“	M.Sc	2004	Research fellow, Laboratory for Perceptual Dynamics, RIKEN, Japan
Evgenia Hristova	Grinberg	“Prisoner’s Dilemma Game: Cognitive Aspects of Judgment and Decision Making.”	Ph.D.	2005	Assist. Prof. at New Bulgarian University
Alexander Gerganov	Grinberg	Modeling perceptual and conceptual learning with neural networks	M.Sc.	2007	PhD students at New Bulgarian University
Svetoslav Bliznashki	Kokinov	The interaction of the processes of mapping and perception during analogy making	M.Sc.	2007	PhD students at New Bulgarian University
Maria Popova	Grinberg	Information acquisition and decision making in the Prisoner’s Dilemma game	M.Sc.	2007
Emilian Lalev	Grinberg	Anticipatory connectionist model of a player in Iterated Prisoner's Dilemma	M.Sc.	2007	PhD students at New Bulgarian University
Marina Hristova	Armina Janyan	Cognate and Concreteness Effects in Word Translation: The Case of Bulgarian – English Bilinguals at Two Levels of Proficiency	M.Sc.	2007	PhD students at New Bulgarian University
Milena Miteva Mutafchieva	Boicho Kokinov	The Analogical Train: Exploring the Role of Analogy-Making and External Representations in Transitive Relational Mapping and Transitive Inferences	Ph.D.	2007	Assistant Professor at NBU