CONTACT DETAILS

Dr Sunčica Zdravkovć

Department of Psychology

Faculty of Philosophy, University of Novi Sad

Dr Zorana Đinđića 2

21000 Novi Sad

e-mail: suncica.zdravkovic@ff.uns.ac.rs

e-mail: szdravko@f.bg.ac.rs

Full CV

EDUCATION

Diploma

2003

Post doctorate, Università degli Studi di Trieste, Italy

Mentor: Tiziano Agostini

2002

PhD in Visual Perception and Psychophysics, Rutgers University, Newark NJ, USA

Thesis supervisor: Alan Gilchrist

Thesis title: An investigation of lightness of an object under two illumination levels.

2000

MSc in Cognitive Neuroscience, Rutgers University, Newark NJ, USA

Thesis supervisor: Ben Martin Bly

Thesis title: Motion and depth pathways interaction.

1994

BA in Visual Perception and Psychophysics, Psychology Department, Faculty of Philosophy, University of Belgrade, Serbia

Thesis supervisor: Dejan Todorović

Thesis title: Depth perception induced by mobile 2D stimuli.

CAREER

Academic

2014

Full professor for Perception, Department of Psychology, Faculty of Philosophy and Faculty of Electrical Engineering, University of Novi Sad Novi Sad, Serbia

2009

Associate professor for Perception, Department of Psychology, Faculty of Philosophy and Faculty of Electrical Engineering, University of Novi Sad Novi Sad, Serbia

2007

Assistant professor for General Psychology, Faculty of Electrical Engineering, University of Novi Sad Novi Sad, Serbia

2004 – 2008

Assistant professor for General Psychology, Department of Psychology, University of Novi Sad Novi Sad, Serbia

1999 – 2000

Consultant, NEC laboratory, Princeton, USA.

Specializations, scholarships, awards and academic visits

2012 – 2013

Visiting professor at Swansea University, Wales, UK.

2010

“Ljuba Stojić” award, from Serbian Psychology Association (DPS)

2004

Visiting scientist at Max Planck Institute, Tübingen, Germany

2003

Young scientist scholarship from Italian Ministry of science

1998 2002

Scholarship from Rutgers University (for doctoral training)

1994 1995

Gifted Young Scientist Fellowship, Institute for Psychology, Belgrade, Serbia.

RESEARCH INTERESTS

 

Lightness

 

Lightness and multiple illumination levels

 

Perception of colors and light

 

Lightness Constancy and Object Identity

TEACHING

 

Courses

PhD studies:

Lightness and color perception

Selected topics from psychological research methodology

Graduate studies:

Visual perception

Undergraduate studies:

Perception,

Cognitive neuroscience,

Learning and Memory

Other study programs:

General Psychology

SELECTED PUBLICATIONS

Jonauskaite, D., Abdel-Khalek, A., Abu-Akel, A., Al-Rasheed, A. S., Antonietti, J. P., Ásgeirsson, Á. G., … Zdravković, S., & Mohr, C. (2019). The sun is no fun without rain: Physical environments affect how we feel about yellow across 55 countries. Journal of Environmental Psychology,  101350. DOI:10.1016/j.jenvp.2019.101350  

Thornton, I.M. & Zdravković, S. (2019). Parallel Detection of Illusory Motion by Human Observers. Attention, Perception, & Psychophysics: Special Issue for Ann Triesmanhttps://doi.org/10.3758/s13414-019-01750-3

Jakovljev, I., & Zdravković, S. (2018).  The color lexicon of Serbian language – a study of dark blue and dark red color categories Part 1: Color-term elicitation task. Psihologija. pdf

Jakovljev, I., & Zdravković, S. (2018).  The color lexicon of Serbian language – a study of dark blue and dark red color categories Part 2: Categorical effects for teget and bordo in the Serbian language. Psihologija. pdf

Callus, C., Brockdorff, N., Zdravković, S (2018) Chapter 3. Attitudes Towards Using a Community Policing App. In Changing Communities, Changing Policing. Eds. Jeanne Pia Mifsud Bonnici & Joseph Cannataci.

Appleby-Arnold, S., Jakovljev, I., Zdravković, S.,& N. Brockdorff (2018). Applying cultural values to encourage disaster preparedness: lessons from a low-hazard country. International Journal of Disaster Risk Reduction. link 

Toscani, M., Zdravković, S., & Gegenfurtner, K. R. (2016). Lightness perception for surfaces moving through different illumination levels. Journal of Vision, 16(15), 21-21.

Zdravković, S. (2015). Chapters: Ganzfeld, Mach bands. Encyclopedia of Color Science and Technology. Springer, New York. DOI https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-27851-8_348-1, ISBN: 978-3-642-27851-8 (Online).

Economou, E., Zdravković, S., & Gilchrist, A. (2015). Grouping Factors and the Reverse Contrast Illusion. Perception. doi: 0301006615607118

Hermens, F., & Zdravković, S. (2015). Information extraction from shadowed regions in images: an eye movement study. Vision Research, 113, 87-96. doi:10.1016/j.visres.2015.05.019

Vejnović, D., & Zdravković, S. (2015). Side flankers produce less crowding, but only for letters. Cognition, 143, 217-227. doi:10.1016/j.cognition.2015.07.003

Blanuša, J., & Zdravković, S. (2015). Horizontal-vertical illusion in mental imagery: quantitative evidence. Frontiers Human Neuroscience, 9:33.  PDF

Todorović, D., Kostić, A., Zdravković, S., & Marković, S. (2014). 40 godina Laboratorije za eksperimentalnu psihologiju. Filozofski fakultet, Beograd, Srbija.

Todorović, D., & Zdravković, S. (2014). The roles of image decomposition and egde curvature in the ‘snake’ lightness illusion. Vision Research. Vol 97: 1-15.   PDF

Filipović Đuđević, D., & Zdravković, S. (2013). Uvod u kognitivne neuronauke. Zrenjaninska biblioteka, Zrenjanin.

Milin, P., & Zdravković, S. (2013). Bi-dimensional semantic scales: the embodied maps of meaning [Special issue: Cognitive science]. Universitas Psychologica, 12(5).   PDF

Barzut, V., & Zdravković, S. (2013). Discrimination of faces of the same and other race and gender modulated by familiarity. Psihologija, 46(1): 45-59.

DOI: 10.2298/PSI1301045B   PDF

Zdravković, S. (2012). Percepcija, II izdanje. Zrenjaninska biblioteka, Zrenjanin.

Zdravković, S., Economou. E., Gilchrist, A., (2012). Grouping illumination frameworks. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance. Vol. 38 (3): 776-784.

DOI: 10.1037/a0026335

Ćirović, I., Zdravković, S. (2011). Verbal vs. visual coding in modified mental imagery map exploration task. Psihologija, 44(1): 39-60.

DOI: 10.2298/PSI1101039C    PDF

Vidaković. V., Zdravković, S. (2010). Influence of depth cues on multiple objects tracking in 3D scene. Psihologija, 43(4): 389-409.

DOI: 10.2298/PSI1004389V    PDF

Vejnović. D., Milin, P., Zdravković, S. (2010). Effects of proficiency and age of language acquisition on working memory performance in bilinguals. Psihologija, 43(3): 219-232.

DOI: 10.2298/PSI1003219V    PDF

Popović, M., Zdravković, S. (2009). Can deployment of attention be strategically controlled? Psihologija. Vol. 42, 1. (67-79).

DOI: 10.2298/PSI0901067P

Vidaković, V., Zdravković, S. (2009). Colour influences identification of the moving objects more than shape. Psihologija. Vol. 42, 1: 79-95.

DOI: 10.2298/PSI0901079V    PDF

Zdravković, S. (2008). Percepcija. Zrenjaninska biblioteka, Zrenjanin.

Zdravković, S. (2008). Lightness constancy: object identity and temporal integration. Psihologija. Vol. 41, 1:19-37.

DOI: 10.2298/PSI0801005Z    PDF

Zdravković, S. (2007). Efekat boje pozadine i osvetljenja na opaženu svetlinu. Psihologija. Vol. 40, 4: 543-565.

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Economou, E., Zdravković, S., Gilchrist, A. (2007). Anchoring versus spatial filtering accounts of simultaneous lightness contrast. Journal of Vision, 7(12): 2, 1-15.

DOI: 10.1167/7.12.2    PDF

Zdravković, S., Economou, E, Gilchrist, A. (2006). Lightness of an object under two illumination levels. Perception. Vol. 35 (1185-1201).

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Zdravković, S., Milin, P. (2006). The underlying distribution of lightness matches. Fechner’s days Proceedings (581-588).