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Teodor Nikolov  MA (Hons), MRes, PhD, FHEA

Dr Teodor Nikolov

(he/him)

MA (Hons), MRes, PhD, FHEA

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Overview

I am a Lecturer (T&R) at the School of Psychology.

Research

Broadly, my research interest lies in exploring visual attention and visual memory. By investigating eye movements, in my previous research I have explored the role of text in reading comic books and the influence of semantic associations on gaze following. My PhD focused on investigating how we use our eyes during the encoding and maintenance of verbal and spatial information, under the guidance of Dr Candice Morey. I also contributed to a project led by Dr Hana D’Souza examining the everyday visual experiences of children with motor difficulties, where I developed and benchmarked machine-learning pipelines for automated face detection and analysis of egocentric video data.

I am currently developing new research directions at the intersection of psychology and artificial intelligence. I am especially interested in how principles of visual attention and memory can be applied to understand human behaviour in AI-assisted environments, particularly how people decide when to rely on or question AI outputs.

Publication

2025

2024

Articles

Thesis

Biography

Education

2019 - 2024: PhD in Psychology, Cardiff University

2018 - 2019: MRes in Psychology, University of Aberdeen

2014 - 2018: MA (Hons) Psychology, University of Aberdeen

 

Contact Details

Email [email protected]

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