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Contact Details

School of Psychology, University of Aberdeen, William Guild Building, Aberdeen, AB24 3FX, UK
Office: F13. Telephone: +44 (0)1224 272240  Email address: j.martinovic at abdn.ac.uk

Qualifications

2007, PhD in Psychology, University of Leipzig, Germany (Dr.rer.nat., Summa cum laude)                             

2003, MSc in Cognitive and Affective Neuroscience, University of Liverpool, UK                                                

2001, Dipl.-psych. (undergraduate psychology degree), University of Belgrade, Serbia

Current Research

I am interested in the neural dynamics of visual object representation and visual attention. My current studies concern rapid transformations that luminance and chromatic inputs

undergo at each of the successive stages of the visual hierarchy. I use a combination of psychophysical and EEG methods to reveal rapidly-ocurring integrative processes that

characterise visual processing.

In the past, my work has been funded by the DAAD and ESRC. Currently I am funded by BBSRC to investigate the early advantage of luminance for object representation and

its cross-talk with chromatic pathways in human visual scene analysis. I am conducting this work in Aberdeen together with my postdoc Mr Ben Jennings. You can find more

information about this ongoing research on our project website. I am also involved on a DFG-funded project into the neural mechanisms of visual object representation, which is

conducted at the University of Leipzig with Prof Matthias M Mueller and Dr Matt Craddock.

Other ongoing collaborations include: Matt Field and Paul Christiansen, University of Liverpool (attentional bias for alcohol-related cues); Søren Andersen, University of California,

San Diego  and Sophie Wuerger, University of Liverpool (colour-based attention), Thomas Gruber (object recognition), Corinna Haenschel, City University London (inputs into visual

working memory) and Andreas Keil, University of Florida, Gainsville (the role of visual pathways in emotional conditioning).

Students that are interested in object representation or colour-based attention should get in touch. I am happy to have undergraduate students helping in the lab and funding

for summer projects can also be made available. For those interested in postgraduate study, School of Psychology has a Masters by research programme and I am also happy

to discuss possiblities for obtaining PhD funding.

Membership of Professional Associations

Experimental Psychology Society (EPS); Applied Vision Association (AVA); Colour Group GB; British Psychological Society (BPS).

Selected Publications

Craddock, M., Martinovic, J., & Lawson, R., (2011). An advantage for active versus passive apperture viewing in visual object recognition. Perception. 40 (10), 1154–1163. 

Martinovic, J., Mordal, J. & Wuerger, S.M. (2011) Event-related potentials reveal an early advantage for luminance contours in the processing of objects. Journal of Vision, 11(7),1; doi:10.1167/11.7.1 

Wuerger, S. M., Ruppertsberg, A., Malek, S., Bertamini, M., & Martinovic, J. (2011) The integration of local chromatic motion signals is sensitive to contrast polarity. Visual Neuroscience, 28, 239-246.

Martinovic, J. & Busch, N.A. (2011) High frequency oscillations as a correlate of visual perception. International Journal of Psychophysiology, 79(1), 32-38. Special Issue: Correlations between gamma-band oscillations and human behaviour.

Martinovic, J., Meyer, G., Mueller, M.M., Wuerger, S.M. (2009) S cone signals invisible to the motion system can improve motion extraction via grouping by colour. Visual Neuroscience, 26 (2), 237-248.

Martinovic, J., Gruber, T., Ohla, K., Mueller, M.M. (2009) Induced gamma-band activity elicited by visual representation of unattended objects. Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience, 21 (1), 42-57.

Martinovic, J., Gruber, T., Mueller, M. M. (2009) Priming of object categorization within and across levels of specificity. Psihologija, 42 (1), 27-46.

Martinovic, J., Gruber, T., Mueller, M. M. (2008) Coding of visual object features and feature conjunctions in the human brain. PLoS ONE 3(11): e3781. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0003781

Martinovic, J., Gruber, T., Hantsch, A., Mueller, M.M. (2008) Induced gamma-band activity is related to the time point of object identification. Brain Research, 1198, 93-106.

Bertamini, M., Martinovic, J., Wuerger, S.M. (2008) Integration of ordinal and metric cues in depth processing. Journal of Vision, 8(2):10, 1-12. 

Martinovic, J., Gruber, T., Mueller, M.M. (2007) Induced gamma-band responses predict recognition delays during object identification. Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience, 19, 921-934.