Education:
Sofia University, Faculty of Physics, Specialty - Radiophysics and Electronics 1963 - 1968
Secondary Education: Secondary School No.7 in Sofia 1958 - 1961

Position
Professor of Perception

Research interests:
Perception, vision, neurosciences, science policy.

Research projects:
1994-1996 - "Human visual information processing - patterns, motion and time perception" National Science Foundation, Bulgaria
1991-1994 - "Processing of information about spatial and temporal characteristics of static and moving visual images: psychophysical studies and modeling" National Science Foundation, Bulgaria
1990-1993 - "Perceptual organization in two-dimensional visual displays" between the Institute of Physiology, BAS and the University of Nijmegen

Selected publications:
Mitrani L., Mateeff S., Yakimoff N. (1971) Is saccadic suppression really saccadic? Vision Res., 11, 1157-1161
Yakimoff N., Mitrani L., Mateeff S. (1974) Saccadic suppression as visual masking effect. Agressologie, 15, 387-394
Yakimoff N., Mitrani L. (1979) A concept of perceived orientation. Percept. Psychophys., 26, 327-330
Yakimoff N. (1981) Does assignment of orientation to dot patterns reveal optimization processes in the visual system? Biol. Cybern., 42, 39-43
Mitrani L., Yakimoff N. (1983) A model of perceived intersection of two converging line segments. Percept. Psychophys., 33, 186-192
Yakimoff N. (1984) The Brain. Sofia: Narodna Prosveta (in Bulgarian)
Yakimoff N. (1985) Orientation and alignment misjudgment: New geometrical optical illusions? Perception, 14, 775-777
Yakimoff N., Lolova P. (1986) Perceived orientation of contour quadrangles. Perception, 15, 461-466
Mitrani L., Shekerdjiiski S., Yakimoff N. (1986) Mechanisms and asymmetries in visual perception of simultaneity and temporal order. Biol. Cybern., 54, 159-165
Yakimoff N., Bocheva N., Mitrani L. (1987) A linear model for the response time in motion prediction. Acta Neurobiol. Exp., 47, 55-62
Vries M.J. de, Yakimoff N., Spekreijse H. (1989) Adaptation to suprathreshold contrast and luminance stimuli. Perception, 18, 615-625
Yakimoff N., Lansky P., Mitrani L., Radil T. (1989) Is the 45o-oblique a third dominant direction? Acta Neurobiol. Exp., 49, 47-50
Yakimoff N., Lansky P., Radil T. (1989) Interactions in orientation perception. Activ. nerv. sup., 31, 153-155
Mates J., Lansky P., Yakimoff N. (1989) Models for the perception of orientation of random dot patterns. Biol. Cybern., 63, 71-80
Yakimoff N., Bocheva N., Mitrani L. (1989) Localizing a nonvisible target: the center of gravity of visual stimuli. Intern. J. Psychophysiol. 7, 440-442
Yakimoff N., Bocheva N., Mitrani L. (1990) Perceiving the center of irregular contour quadrangles. Spatial Vision, 5, 51-57
Mateeff S., Yakimoff N., Hohnsbein J., Ehrenstein W.H. (1991) Perceptual constancy during ocular pursuit: A quantitative estimation procedure. Percept. Psychophys., 49, 390-392
Ehrenstein W.H., Yakimoff N., Mateeff S., Hohnsbein J., Bohdanecky Z. (1991) Centripetal preference in the perception and extrapolation of visual motion. in B. Blum (Ed.) Channels in the visual system - Neurophysiology, Psychophysics, Models. Tel Aviv - London: Freund, pp. 257-271
Yakimoff N., Vos P.G., Bocheva N., Helsper E. (1991) Perceived tilt and direction of two-dimensional patterns. Zool. Jb. Physiol., 95, 403-407 Davi M., Yakimoff N., Bocheva N., Kefaloff V. (1993) The relative roles of vertices and sides in determining perceptual centers within shapes. Acta Neurobiol. Exp., 53, 367-375
Vos P.G., Bocheva N., Yakimoff N., Helsper E. (1993) Perceived location of two-dimensional patterns. Vision Res., 33, 15, 2157-2169
Yakimoff N., Mateeff S., Ehrenstein W.H., Hohnsbein J. (1993) Motion extrapolation performance: A linear model approach. Human Factors, 35(3), 501-510
Mateeff S., Yakimoff N., Hohnsbein J. (1994) Quantifying perceptual constancy during tracking eye movements and noncollinear motion of a background target. in G. d'Ydewalle and J. Van Rensbergen (Eds) Visual and Oculomotor Functions. Amsterdam: North-Holland, Elsevier Science B.V., pp. 123-131
Bocheva N., Yakimoff N. (1996) Different mechanisms may underlie the performance in relative localization tasks. Vision Res., 36(16), 2531-2535
Yakimoff N., Petrova N. (1997) Bulgarian Academy of Sciences - Scientific Potentiol and Research Priorities, in Ch. Proukakis and N. Katsaros (eds.), The Rple of the Academies of Sciences in the Balkan Countries, NATO ASI Series, Series 4: Science and Technology Policy - Vol. 16, Dordrecht: Kluwer Academic Publishers, 75-83
Bocheva N., Yakimoff N., Vos P. (1998) Perceptual grouping of strip dot patterns. Acta Physiol. Pharmacol. Bulg., 23(1), 5-14.
Yakimoff N. (2000) The Role of the Bulgarian Academy of Sciences in Fostering International Co-operation, in N.K. Pak, K. Simeonova, E. Turkcan (eds.), Strategies of the International Scientific Co-operation in South-East Europe, NATO Science Series, Series 4: Science and Technology Policy - Vol. 30, IOS Press, 45-49
Yakimoff N. (2001) Scientific Collaboration of Bulgaria with the Neighbouring Countries, in P. Lasserre and S. Anguelov (eds), Reconstruction of Scientific Co-operation in Southeast Europe, Proceedings of International Conference of Experts, Venice: UNESCO Venice Regional Bureau for Science (ROSTE), 59-64
Yakimoff N. (2001) What is the goal, in N.Mateev (ed), Science - the New Trends, Sofia: Sviat 2001, 188-217 (in Bulgarian)
Yakimoff N. (2001) Higher Education and the Academy of Sciences in Bulgaria. Perspectives in Higher Education, vol.10 (in press)
Yakimoff N. (2002) Ten years experience of Bulgaria in NATO Science Programme. Paper presented at the NATO Conference "Integration of S&T systems of the central Asian republics to the western world" May 16-18, 2002, Ankara, Turkey - (invited speaker)
Yakimoff N., Anguelov S. (2002) Rebuilding Scientific Cooperation Among CEEC - A Way To Enhance Their Attractiveness For Researchers From Abroad. Paper presented at the Conference "Flexible Europe - Mobility as a tool for enhancing research capacity"19-20 September 2002, Tallinn, ESTONIA - (invited speaker).
Yakimoff N. (2004) Ten Years of Bulgarian Participation in the NATO Science Programme , in N.K. Pak and P.C. Rambaut (eds.), The Integration of Sciånce and Technology Systems of the Central Asian Republics into the Western World, NATO Science Series, Series V: Science and Technology Policy - Vol. 39, " IOS Press, 22-27
Anguelov S., Yakimoff N. (2006) Bulgarian Science on the Eve of Accession to the European Union. In "A Special IPTS (Institute for prospective technological studies) Rerport", ITPS-JRC-Seville, December 2006, pp. 20-24.
Hadjitodorov S., Yakimoff N. (2006) Bulgarian Participation in the Nato Science Programs. In "Bulgarian Integration into Europe and NATO", Ed. Crangle R.D., NATO Security through Science Series, IOS Press, pp. 39-52

Editorial boards:
Secretary (1976-1992) and Editor-in-Chief (1992-) of "Acta Physiologica et Pharmacologica Bulgarica"
Member of the Editorial Board of "Acta Neurobiologiae Experimentalis"

Awards:
Officer of the Ordre National de Merite of the French Republic
Order Palmes Académique of the French Republic
Order The St.St. Cyril and Methodius, 2nd degree (Bulgarian)

Mailing address:
Central and East Europian Center
of Cognitive Science
New Bulgarian University
21, Montevideo Str.
1618 Sofia, Bulgaria
Tel.: (+359) 2/ 955 75 18

E-mail: nyakimoff@gmail.com