Ivan I. Vankov

PhD, Cognitive Science

Research Interests:  relational reasoning, embodiment of high-level thought, objects representation, mental imagery, spatial cognition

[CV]   [PhD thesis]   [M.Sc thesis]   [citeulike library]


Publications

Vankov, I. (2011) The interplay of spatial attention and memory: evidence for memory driven spatial compatibility effects, but not for a facilitating role of attention in memory retrieval. Attention, Perception & Psychophysics, 73(7), 2124-2129.

Vankov, I., & Kokinov, B. (2011) Embodied comparison of functional relations In: Kokinov, B., Karmiloff-Smith, A., Nersessian, N. J. (Eds.) European Perspectives on Cognitive Science. Sofia, Bulgaria: NBU Press.
Vankov, I., & Kokinov, B. (2010) The role of action in perceiving and comparing functional relations. In S. Ohlsson & R.Catrambone (Eds.), Proceedings of the 32nd Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society (pp. 2081-2086). Austin, TX: Cognitive Science Society.
Vankov, I., & Kokinov, B. (2009). Grounding relations in action. In B. Kokinov, K. Holyoak & D. Getner (Eds.), New Frontiers in Analogy Research (pp. 463-472). Sofia, Bulgaria: NBU Press.
Vankov, I. (2009). Mind the gap - the cost of looking at nothing, or the performance implications of memory-induced attention shifts. In N.A. Taatgen & H. van Rijn (Eds.), Proceedings of the 31th Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society (pp. 1318-1323). Austin, TX: Cognitive Science Society.
Vankov, I., Kiryazov, K., & Grinberg, M. (2008). Introducing emotions in an analogy-making model. In B. C. Love, K. McRae, & V. M. Sloutsky (Eds.), Proceedings of the 30th Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society (pp. 2485-2490). Austin, TX: Cognitive Science Society.

Contact

Department of Cognitive Science and Psychology
New Bulgarian University
21 Montevideo Street, Sofia 1618, Bulgaria
Email: cogs.nbu.bg