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Stefan Mateeff
Education and degrees:
1968 - Completed education in Sofia University, physics
1973 – Ph.D., thesis: "Localization of stimuli presented to the moving eye"
1990 - Doctor of Sciences, thesis: "Visual spatial orientation and voluntary eye movements in humans"
Languages:
Bulgarian (mother language), German, English, Russian
Courses:
· PSYB 804 “Psychophysics”
· PSYB 201 “Psychological inference”
· COGM 001 “Experimental methods”
· COGM 002 “Cognitive psychology”
· COGM 306 “High-level vision”
· COGM 904 “Attention, perception and action”
· DEVM 305 “Data analysis in psychological research”
Research area and interests:
Visual psychophysics and human perception and performance:
· Visual localization of moving objects in space-time. Perceptual constancy during ocular pursuit.
· Dynamic properties of visual motion perception: sensitivity and reaction time to changes in speed and direction of motion.
· Effects of observation aperture (window) on the perception of moving textures and objects.
· Perception of objects moving behind very small apertures: slits and sieves
· Perceived speed of rotation of 3-D objects: real objects and “stricture-from-motion”.
Research Projects (principal investigator):
National, supported by the National Science Fund:
· Project I-601/96 “Dynamic properties of visual perception of motion in humans”
· Project L-821/98 Mechanisms of detection and discrimination of changes in visual motion”
· Project OHN 1003/2000 “Visual perception of objects that move within an aperture”
· Project OHN 1210/2002 “The human reaction to changes in the velocity vector of visual motion”
· Project OHN 1303/2003 “Human visual sensitivity to changes in direction of visual motion”
· Project L -1516/2005 “The subjective global direction of modulated visual motion”
International (principal investigator in Bulgaria):
· Project 436BUL-113/32, supported by the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft, Germany: "Mechanisms of motion perception and localization in humans", cooperation (1988 – 2008) with Leibniz Research Center for Working Environment and Human Factors (former Institut fuer Arbeitsphysiologie), Dortmund, Germany
Current affiliation:
· Professor of Psychology (Psychophysics) at the New Bulgarian University
Previous affiliation:
· Professor of Psychophysiology at the Institute of Neurobiology of the Bulgarian Academy of Sciences
· Head of Department “Sensory Neurobiology” of the Institute of Neurobiology
Mailing address:
Department of Cognitive Science and Psychology
New Bulgarian University
21, Montevideo Str.
1635 Sofia, Bulgaria
E-mails: smateev@nbu.bg, mateeff@dir.bg
Selected publications:
· Mateeff, S., Yakimoff, N. & Mitrani, L. (1976). Some characteristics of the visual masking by moving contours. Vision Research 16, 489-492
· Mateeff, S. (1978). Saccadic eye movement and localization of visual stimuli. Perception & Psychophysics, 24, 215-224
· Mateeff, S. (1981). Psychophysics: Ideas and methods. Sofia: Publishing House of the Bulgarian Academy of Sciences (in Bulgarian)
· Mateeff, S. Yakimoff, N. & Dimitrov, G. (1981). Localization of brief visual stimuli during pursuit eye movements. Acta Psychologica, 48, 133-140
· Mateeff, S., Hohnsbein, J. & Noack, T. (1985). Dynamic visual capture: apparent auditory motion induced by a moving visual target. Perception, 14, 721-727
· Mateeff, S. & Hohnsbein, J. (1988). Perceptual latencies for motion towards fovea are shorter than for motion away from the fovea. Vision Research 28, 711-719
· Mateeff, S. & Hohnsbein, J. (1989). The role of the adjacency between background cues and objects in visual localization during ocular pursuit. Perception, 18, 93-104
· Mateeff, S., Yakimoff, N., Hohnsbein, J. & Ehrenstein, W.H. (1991). Perceptual constancy during ocular pursuit: A quantitative estimation procedure. Perception & Psychophysics, 49, 390-392
· Hohnsbein, J. & Mateeff, S. (1992). The relation between the velocity of visual motion and the reaction time to motion onset and offset. Vision Research, 32, 1789-1791
· Mateeff, S., Popov, D. & Hohnsbein, J. (1993). Multi-aperture viewing: Perception of figures through very small apertures. Vision Research, 33, 2563 - 2567
· Yakimoff, N., Ehrenstein, W.H., Hohnsbein, J. & Mateeff, S. (1993). Motion extrapolation performance: A linear model approach. Human Factors, 35, 501-510
· Mateeff, S. & Hohnsbein, J. (1994). Wertheim's "reference" signal: Successful in explaining perception of absolute motion, but how about relative motion? Behavioral and Brain Sciences, 17, 323-324
· Mateeff, S. & Hohnsbein, J. (1994). Is there any essential difference between the "calibration" and "elimination" solutions? Behavioral and Brain Sciences, 17, 268-269
· Mateeff, S., Dimitrov, G. & Hohnsbein, J. (1995). Temporal thresholds and reaction time to changes in velocity of visual motion. Vision Research, 35, 355-363
· Mateeff, S. & Hohnsbein, J. (1996). Perception of visual motion with modulated velocity: Effects of viewing distance and aperture size. Vision Research, 36, 2873-2882
· Hohnsbein, J. & Mateeff, S. (1998) The time it takes to detect changes in speed and direction of visual motion. Vision Research, 38, 2569-2573
· Mateeff, S. Genova, B. & Hohnsbein, J. (1999). The simple reaction time to changes in direction of visual motion. Experimental Brain Research 124, 391-394
· Genova, B., Mateeff, S., Bonnet, C. & Hohnsbein, J. (2000). Mechanisms of simple and choice reaction to changes in direction of visual motion. Vision Research, 40, 3049-3058
· Hohnsbein, J. & Mateeff, S. (2002). Speed decrements are seen better than increments through small apertures. Experimental Brain Research, 142, 434-438
· Mateeff, S. Genova, B. & Hohnsbein, J. (2005). The visual analysis of changes of motion in reaction time tasks. Perception, 34, 341-356
· Mateeff, S., Stefanova, M. & Hohnsbein, J. (2007). Perceived global direction of a compound of real and apparent motion. Vision Research, 47, 1455-1463
· Stefanova, M., Mateeff, S. & Hohnsbein, J. (2009)The upper spatial limit for perception of displacement s affected by preceding motion. Vision Research, 49, 499 - 504