Dr Martin Vasilev
- 01202 961558
- mvasilev at bournemouth dot ac dot uk
- http://orcid.org/0000-0003-1944-8828
- Senior Lecturer in Psychology
- Poole House P104c, Talbot Campus, Fern Barrow, Poole, BH12 5BB
- Keywords:
- Cognitive psychology
- Language
- Psychology
Biography
I obtained a BA degree in Psychology from the University of Sofia (Bulgaria) in 2013. I then completed an MSc degree in Clinical Linguistics from the University of Potsdam (Germany) in 2015, conducting my dissertation under the supervision of Dr. Sarah Risse. During my Master's degree, I also did study visits at the University of Eastern Finland and the University of Groningen (the Netherlands). I completed my PhD degree at Bournemouth University between 2015 - 2018 under the supervision of Dr. Bernhard Angele and Dr. Julie Kirkby. I then worked as a post-doctoral researcher with Dr. Tim Slattery between 2018-2020, before starting as a lecturer at Bournemouth University in 2020.
Research
In my research, I am using eye-tracking to study how people control their eyes during reading. I am also interested in auditory distraction, multi-tasking, academic distraction, and education psychology. More broadly, I also have an interest in mathematical models of cognition, evidence synthesis, statistical and measurement theory, and open science and education.
Favourites
- Vasilev, M.R., Adedeji, V.I., Laursen, C., Budka, M. and Slattery, T.J., 2021. Do readers use character information when programming return-sweep saccades? Vision Research.
- Vasilev, M.R., Yates, M., Prueitt, E. and Slattery, T.J., 2021. Parafoveal degradation during reading reduces preview costs only when it is not perceptually distinct. Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology, 74 (2), 254-276.
- Vasilev, M.R., Parmentier, F.B.R. and Kirkby, J.A., 2020. Distraction by auditory novelty during reading: Evidence for disruption in saccade planning, but not saccade execution. Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology.
- Vasilev, M.R., Kirkby, J.A. and Angele, B., 2018. Auditory Distraction During Reading: A Bayesian Meta-Analysis of a Continuing Controversy. Perspectives on Psychological Science, 13 (5), 567-597.
- Vasilev, M.R. and Angele, B., 2017. Parafoveal preview effects from word N + 1 and word N + 2 during reading: A critical review and Bayesian meta-analysis. Psychonomic Bulletin and Review, 24 (3), 666-689.
Journal Articles
- Pownall, M., Vasilev, M.R. et al., 2023. Teaching open and reproducible scholarship: a critical review of the evidence base for current pedagogical methods and their outcomes. Royal Society Open Science, 10 (5).
- Buchanan, E.M., Vasilev, M.R. et al., 2023. The Psychological Science Accelerator’s COVID-19 rapid-response dataset. Scientific Data, 10 (1), 87.
- Woods, A.D., Vasilev, M.R. et al., 2023. Best practices for addressing missing data through multiple imputation. Infant and Child Development.
- Vasilev, M.R., Hitching, L. and Tyrrell, S., 2023. What makes background music distracting? Investigating the role of song lyrics using self-paced reading. Journal of Cognitive Psychology.
- Vasilev, M.R., Lowman, M., Bills, K., Parmentier, F.B.R. and Kirkby, J.A., 2023. Unexpected sounds inhibit the movement of the eyes during reading and letter scanning. Psychophysiology.
- Adedeji, V.I., Vasilev, M.R., Kirkby, J.A. and Slattery, T.J., 2022. Return-sweep saccades in oral reading. Psychological Research, 86 (6), 1804-1815.
- Dorison, C.A., Vasilev, M.R. et al., 2022. In COVID-19 Health Messaging, Loss Framing Increases Anxiety with Little-to-No Concomitant Benefits: Experimental Evidence from 84 Countries. Affect Sci, 3 (3), 577-602.
- Wang, K., Vasilev, M.R. et al., 2022. Erratum: Author Correction: A multi-country test of brief reappraisal interventions on emotions during the COVID-19 pandemic (Nature human behaviour (2021) 5 8 (1089-1110)). Nature human behaviour, 6 (9), 1318-1319.
- Legate, N. et al., 2022. A global experiment on motivating social distancing during the COVID-19 pandemic. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 119 (22).
- Parsons, S., Parker, A.J., Vasilev, M.R. et al., 2022. A community-sourced glossary of open scholarship terms. Nature Human Behaviour, 6 (3), 312-318.
- Pownall, M., Vasilev, M., Talbot, C. et al., 2021. Embedding open and reproducible science into teaching: A bank of lesson plans and resources. Scholarship of Teaching and Learning in Psychology.
- Attard-Johnson, J., Vasilev, M.R., Ó Ciardha, C., Bindemann, M. and Babchishin, K.M., 2021. Measurement of Sexual Interests with Pupillary Responses: A Meta-Analysis. Archives of Sexual Behavior, 50 (8), 3385-3411.
- Hills, P.J., Vasilev, M.R., Ford, P., Snell, L., Whitworth, E., Parsons, T., Morisson, R., Silveira, A. and Angele, B., 2021. Sensory gating is related to positive and disorganised schizotypy in contrast to smooth pursuit eye movements and latent inhibition. Neuropsychologia, 161.
- Wang, K., Vasilev, M.R. et al., 2021. A multi-country test of brief reappraisal interventions on emotions during the COVID-19 pandemic. Nature Human Behaviour, 5 (8), 1089-1110.
- Vasilev, M.R., Adedeji, V.I., Laursen, C., Budka, M. and Slattery, T.J., 2021. Do readers use character information when programming return-sweep saccades? Vision Research.
- Vasilev, M.R., Yates, M., Prueitt, E. and Slattery, T.J., 2021. Parafoveal degradation during reading reduces preview costs only when it is not perceptually distinct. Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology, 74 (2), 254-276.
- Woods, A., Vasilev, M. et al., 2021. Best Practices for Addressing Missing Data through Multiple Imputation.
- Pownall, M., Vasilev, M. et al., 2021. Embedding open and reproducible science into teaching: A bank of lesson plans and resources.
- Vasilev, M.R., Parmentier, F.B.R. and Kirkby, J.A., 2020. Distraction by auditory novelty during reading: Evidence for disruption in saccade planning, but not saccade execution. Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology.
- Slattery, T.J. and Vasilev, M.R., 2019. An eye-movement exploration into return-sweep targeting during reading. Attention, Perception, and Psychophysics, 81 (5), 1197-1203.
- Vasilev, M.R., Parmentier, F.B.R., Angele, B. and Kirkby, J.A., 2019. Distraction by deviant sounds during reading: An eye-movement study. Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology, 72 (7), 1863-1875.
- Parmentier, F.B.R., Vasilev, M.R. and Andrés, P., 2019. Surprise as an explanation to auditory novelty distraction and post-error slowing. Journal of Experimental Psychology: General, 148 (1), 192-200.
- Vasilev, M.R., Liversedge, S.P., Rowan, D., Kirkby, J.A. and Angele, B., 2019. Reading Is Disrupted by Intelligible Background Speech: Evidence From Eye-Tracking. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance.
- Vasilev, M.R., Yates, M. and Slattery, T.J., 2019. Do readers integrate phonological codes across saccades? a Bayesian meta-analysis and a survey of the unpublished literature. Journal of Cognition, 2 (1).
- Vasilev, M.R., Kirkby, J.A. and Angele, B., 2018. Auditory Distraction During Reading: A Bayesian Meta-Analysis of a Continuing Controversy. Perspectives on Psychological Science, 13 (5), 567-597.
- Vasilev, M.R., Slattery, T.J., Kirkby, J.A. and Angele, B., 2018. What are the costs of degraded parafoveal previews during silent reading? Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning Memory and Cognition, 44 (3), 371-386.
- Vasilev, M.R. and Angele, B., 2017. Parafoveal preview effects from word N + 1 and word N + 2 during reading: A critical review and Bayesian meta-analysis. Psychonomic Bulletin and Review, 24 (3), 666-689.
- Vasilev, M.R., 2013. Negative results in European psychology journals. Europe's Journal of Psychology, 9 (4), 717-730.
Theses
- Vasilev, M., 2018. The determinants of auditory distraction during reading: an eye-movement investigation. PhD Thesis. Bournemouth University, Faculty of Science and Technology.
Preprints
- Vasilev, M., Lowman, M., Bills, K., Parmentier, F. and Kirkby, J., 2023. Unexpected sounds inhibit the movement of the eyes during reading and letter scanning.
- Vasilev, M., Hitching, L. and Tyrrell, S., 2022. What makes background music distracting? Investigating the role of song lyrics using self-paced reading.
PhD Students
- Victoria I. Adedeji, 2023. The eye-voice span and return-sweeps during oral reading: Developmental implications, (Completed)
- Laura Preedy-Maher, (In progress)
- Calvin Laursen, (In progress)
Profile of Teaching PG
- Research Project
- Advanced Research Methods
- Advanced Statistics
Profile of Teaching UG
- Experimental Methods and Statistical Analysis 1
- Cognition and Language
- Developmental and Clinical Psychology
- Research Project
Grants
- Erasmus+ travel grant (University of Balearic Islands, Spain) (European Commission, 03 Apr 2022). Completed
- Inhibition of eye-movement control by unexpected sounds (Experimental Psychology Society, 14 Mar 2022). Awarded
- Auditory distraction during reading in native speakers of Mandarin Chinese: An eye-tracking study (Experimental Psychology Society (EPS), 27 Nov 2017). Completed
Conference Presentations
- SIPS Meeting 2021, Developing resources to support teaching faculty and integrate open scholarship content into curricula, 23 Jun 2021, Online
- Distraction and Attention: An International Workshop, Distraction by unexpected sounds during reading: An inhibition of oculomotor control?, 22 Sep 2020, Online
- Meeting of the Experimental Psychology Society, Preview benefits and preview costs during reading: Exploring the interplay between display change awareness and parafoveal visual degradation, 10 Jul 2020, Bournemouth, UK
- Meeting of the Experimental Psychology Society, Distraction by auditory novelty during reading: Evidence for disruption in saccade planning, but not saccade execution, 08 Jan 2020, London, UK
- 60th Meeting of the Psychonomic Society, An eye-movement exploration into return-sweep targeting during reading, 14 Nov 2019, Montreal, Canada
- 21st European Conference on Eye Movements, Do readers integrate phonological codes across saccades? A Bayesian meta-analysis and a survey of the unpublished literature, 18 Aug 2019, Alicante, Spain
- 58th Meeting of the Psychonomic Society, What are the costs of degraded parafoveal previews during silent reading (and how to reduce them)?, 09 Nov 2017, Vancouver, Canada
- 58th Meeting of the Psychonomic Society, Reading is disrupted by intelligible background speech: Evidence from eye-tracking, 09 Nov 2017, Vancouver, Canada
- 19th European Conference on Eye Movements, Auditory distraction by meaningful background speech during reading, 20 Aug 2017, Wuppertal, Germany
- 9th BU Postgraduate Conference, Auditory distraction during reading: Evidence from eye-tracking, 08 Mar 2017, Poole, United Kingdom
- 57th Meeting of the Psychonomic Society, Parafoveal preview effects from word N+2 during reading: A Bayesian meta-analysis, 17 Nov 2016, Boston, USA
- 57th Meeting of the Psychonomic Society, The cost of visual degradation: Adding random visual noise to previews makes display changes highly detectable, 17 Nov 2016, Boston, USA
- 2nd International Meeting of the Psychonomic Society, Parafoveal preview effects from word N+2 during reading: A Bayesian meta-analysis, 05 May 2016, Granada, Spain
- 8th BU Postgraduate Conference, Do readers obtain information from the second word to the right of the current fixation? A Bayesian meta-analysis., 09 Mar 2016, Bournemouth, UK
Qualifications
- PhD in Psychology (Bournemouth University, 2019)
- MSc in Clinical Linguistics (Potsdam University, 2015)
- BA (Hons) in Psychology (Sofia University, 2013)
Honours
- Fellow of the Higher Education Academy (FHEA) (AdvanceHE, 2021)
Memberships
- Experimental Psychology Society (UK), Member (2020-), https://eps.ac.uk/
- Framework for Open and Reproducible Research Training (FORRT), Associate (2020-), https://forrt.org/about/community/
- Psychological Science Accelerator, Member (2020-), https://psysciacc.org/
- Psychonomic Society, Member (2018-), https://www.psychonomic.org/