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Penka Hristova Penka Hristova


Education

M.A. – Cognitive Science, New Bulgarian University
Ph.D. – Cognitive Science, New Bulgarian University

Research areas

Teaching activities

Contact information

Cognitive Science Department,
New Bulgarian University,
21, Montevideo St.,
Sofia, 1618,
Bulgaria

Phone: ++ 359 2 8110 401
phristiova@cogs.nbu.bg


Selected publications


Hristova, P.(2009) Unconscious Analogical Mapping? In N.A. Taatgen & H. van Rijn (Eds.), Proceedings of the 31th Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society (pp. 655-660). Austin, TX: Cognitive Science Society.


Hristova, P.(2009) Unintentional and Unconscious Analogies Between Superficially Dissimilar but Relatioanly Similar Simple Structures In B. Kokinov, K. Holyoak & D. Getner (Eds.), New Frontiers in Analogy Research (pp. 193-203). Sofia, Bulgaria: NBU Series in Cognitive Science.


Hristova, P.(2009) People in Negative Mood May See Relations Where People in Positive Mood May Not In B. Kokinov, K. Holyoak & D. Getner (Eds.), New Frontiers in Analogy Research (pp. 204-210). Sofia, Bulgaria: NBU Series in Cognitive Science.


Hristova, P., Petkov, G. & Kokinov, B. (2007) Objective vs. Subjective Scales: The Challenge that the Scale Type Poses to the JUDGEMAP Model of Context Sensitive Judgment. In: B. Kokinov, D. Richardson, Th. Roth-Berghofer, L. Vieu (eds.) Modeling and Using Context. Lecture Notes in Computer Science (Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence), vol. 4635 , Berlin: Springer Verlag, pp. 263-276


Kokinov, B., Bliznashki, S., Kosev, S., Hristova, P. (2007) Analogical Mapping and Perception: Do these Processes Interact with each other and How? In: Proceedings of the 29th Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society. Erlbaum, Hillsdale, NJ. , 1175-1181


Hristova, P. & Kokinov, B. (2007) Perceptual Learning vs. Context-Sensitive Retrieval: Why do people judge green lines to be shorter/longer than red lines of the same length? Do they perceive them differently or do they retrieve a biased set of alternatives in their comparison set? In: Proceedings of the European Conference on Cognitive Science. Erlbaum, Hillsdale, NJ. 377-382


Hristova, P. & Kokinov, B. (2006) A Common Mechanism Is Possibly Underlying the Shift in Perceptual and Conceptual Judgment Produced by Irrelevant Information. In: Proceedings of the 28th Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society, Erlbaum, Hillsdale, NJ.


Hristova, P. (2005a) The Mechanisms of Contextual Change in Judgment. In: Proceedings of the Balkan Conference of Young Scientists, 2005, Plovdiv. In press.


Hristova, P., Petkov, G., Kokinov, B. (2005b). Influence of Irrelevant Information on Price Judgment. In: Proceedings of the International Conference on Cognitive Economics. NBU Press.


Kokinov, B., Hristova, P., Petkov, G. (2004) Does Irrelevant Information Play a Role in Judgment? In: Proceedings of the 26th Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society, 2004. Erlbaum, Hillsdale, NJ.


Selected conference talks


Hristova, P. (2006) Does judgment of simple and complex stimuli depends on the irrelevant-to-the-task information. 2nd Workshop on Cognitive and Social Perspectives on (Un)Consciousness: Intuitive Information Processing, Kazimierz Dolny, Poland.


Hristova, P. (2005) Fragile Contextual Effects in Judgment of Length. Doctoral Consortium at the Fifth International and Interdisciplinary Conference on Modelling and Using Context, Paris, France.


Hristova, P. (2005) The Mechanisms of Contextual Change in Judgment. Balkan Conference of Young Scientists, Plovdiv, Bulgaria.


Mailing address:

Central and East European Center for Cognitive Science
Department of Cognitive Science and Psychology,
New Bulgarian University
21, Montevideo Str.
Sofia 1635, Bulgaria

Tel.: (+359)
2-8110-401
Fax: (+359)
2-8110-421