Education

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.

Research Interests

Lightness

Lightness and multiple illumination levels

Perception of colors and light

Lightness Constancy and Object Identity

Teaching

PhD studies:

Lightness and color perception
Selected topics from psychological research methodology

Graduate studies:

Visual perception

Experimental psychology

Cognitive Neuroscience

Undergraduate studies:

Perception
Cognitive neuroscience
Learning and Memory

Other study programs:

General Psychology

Selected Publications

Nedimović, P., Zdravković, S., & Domijan, D. (2022). Empirical evaluation of computational models of lightness perception. Scientific Reports, 12(1), 22039.
Hermens, F., & Zdravković, S. (2022). Visual attention in change blindness for objects and shadows. Perception, 51(9), 605-623.
Nedimović, P., & Zdravković, S. (2021). Lightness contrast & assimilation: testing the hypotheses. Primenjena psihologija Vol. 41, No. 3, pp. 98-114.
Thornton, I. M., Tagu, J., Zdravković, S., & Kristjánsson, Á. (2021). The Predation Game: Does dividing attention affect patterns of human foraging?. Cognitive Research: Principles and Implications, 6(1), 1-20. https://doi.org/10.1186/s41235-021-00299-w
Childs, M. J., Jones, A., Thwaites, P., Zdravković, S., Thorley, C., Suzuki, A., ... & Tree, J. J. (2021). Do individual differences in face recognition ability moderate the other ethnicity effect?. Journal of Experimental Psychology: human perception and performance. https://doi.org/10.3758/s13414-019-01750-3
Jonauskaite, D., Abu-Akel, A., Dael, N.,... Zdravković, S., Meng Zhang, & Mohr, C. (2020). Universal patterns in color-emotion associations are further shaped by linguistic and geographic proximity. Psychological Science, 31(10), 1245-1260. https://doi.org/10.1177/0956797620948810
Thornton, I.M. & Zdravković, S. (2020). Searching for illusory motion. Attention, Perception, & Psychophysics, 82(1), 44-62. https://doi.org/10.3758/s13414-019-01750-3
Reid, I., Appleby-Arnold, S., Brockdorff, N., Jakovljev, I., & Zdravković, S.(2020). Developing a model of perceptions of security and insecurity in the context of crime. Psychiatry, Psychology and Law. https://doi.org/10.1080/13218719.2020.1742235
Appleby-Arnold, S., Brockdorff, N., Jakovljev, I., & Zdravković, S.(2020). Disaster preparedness and cultural factors: a comparative study in Romania and Malta. Disasters. https://doi.org/10.1111/disa.12433
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. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jenvp.2019.101350
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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).
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
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
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
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
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
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
Zdravković, S. (2007). Efekat boje pozadine i osvetljenja na opaženu svetlinu. Psihologija. Vol. 40, 4: 543-565.
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
Zdravković, S., Economou, E, Gilchrist, A. (2006). Lightness of an object under two illumination levels. Perception. Vol. 35 (1185-1201).
Zdravković, S., Milin, P. (2006). The underlying distribution of lightness matches. Fechner’s days Proceedings (581-588).