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Encho GerganovEncho Gerganov

 

Position

Professor of Cognitive Psychology  and Psycholinguistics

 

Research interests

Cognitive psychology, psycholinguistics, psychometrics,

and education.

 

Specialization

(i) main field: Linguistics

(ii) other fields: Psycholinguistics, Cognitive Psychology, Cognitive Science, Psychometrics

(iii) current research interests: psychosemantics, categorization, semantic memory, sentence interpretation, measurement in the social sciences.

 


Selected publications

A/ Books (in Bulgarian)

Gerganov, E. & Kyuchukov, Ch. Attitudes of Bulgarian Romany people towards Education. Sofia, Tilia, 1999.

Gerganov, E. Memory and Semantics. Sofia, Nauka i izkustwo, 1987, 245 pages

Gerganov, E., Ivancheva L. and others. Bulgarian norms of word associations. Sofia, Nauka i izkustwo, 1984, 272 pages.

Gerganov, E. Psychometric methods for assessment and evaluation of Bulgarian language acquisition. Sofia, Narodna prosveta, 1976, 170 pages

 

B/ Papers

In Bulgarian:

Gerganov, E. Methodology of experimental psychological study of memory. In: "Program of interdisciplinary study of Human and Human Brain. " 1987, 2, p. 9-20

 Gerganov, E. & Kolev, E. Knowledge representation in the semantic memory. Philosophical thought, 1987, 7,  p. 62-72

Gerganov, E.  & Tasseva K. Learning of Foreign language lexical items as a function of the natural language mediators. Psychology. 1987, 1, p.26-33

Gerganov, E. & Karadjova K. Structure of notions in the semantic memory of normal children and mentally retarded children. III. Free recall. Psychology, 1986, 1, p. 29-39

Gerganov, E. & Karadjova K. Structure of notions in the semantic memory of normal children and mentally retarded children. II. Free verbal associations. Psychology, 1985, 2, p. 15-21

Gerganov, E. & Karadjova K. Structure of notions in the semantic memory of normal children and mentally retarded children. I. Free classification. Psychology, 1984, 5, p. 293-304

Gerganov, E. & Alexieva E. Multidimensional scaling of rhythmic-intonation patterns. Annual Review of Sofia University . Department of Philosophy. Book of Psychology. 1987, v.77, p. 58-92

 

In English:   

Gerganov, E., Boyadzieva, P., & Paspalanova, E. The Social Attitudes of the Bulgarians towards Continuing Education on the Eve of the 21st Century. In: Heribert Hintzen (Ed.). Adult Education and Development. Institute for International Cooperation of the German Adult Education Association. 2001. v. 56, pp. 187 - 207

Gerganov, E. and Kyuchikov Hr. Reading comprehension by Romany and Bulgarian students from fifth to eight grade. Psychology of Language and Communication, 2000, vol 4. No. 1, 89-98

Gerganov, E. A cognitive approach to the definition of the word meaning. In: A.F.Lagopoulos et others (Eds.). Anthropos o Simainon. Tomos I. Logos kai Ideologia. Paratiritis, Thessaloniki, 1996

Gerganov, E., Dilova M., Petkova Kr. and Paspalanova E. Culture-specific approach to the study of individualism/collectivism. European Journal of Social Psychology, 1996, Vol. 26, 277-297

Gerganov, E. and Rangelova Kr. A cognitive model approach to the conceptual organization of English verb tense forms. In: K. Sajavara and C. Fairweather (Eds.). Approaches to second language acquisition. University of Jyvaskyla, 1996, p. 136-139

Gerganov, E., Dilova M., Paspalanova E. and Petkova Kr. Voting in the first posttotalitarian elections in Bulagaria. Political Psychology, Vol. 16, No. 4, 1995

Gerganov, E., Rangelova Kr. Effect of some motivational factors on foreign language vocabulary acquisition. In: "Sprach-intensiv-ausbildung. Berlin, 1990

 

 

Editiorial Boards

“Psychology of Language and Communication” (journal)

"Science" (journal)

"Journal of Contrastive Linguistics"

 

 

Mailing address:

Central and East European Center

for Cognitive Science

New Bulgarian University

21 Montevideo Blvd.

Sofia, 1618

BULGARIA

 

Phone: + 359 2 811 0401

 

Fax: + 359 2 811 0421

 

Email: egerganov@nbu.bg