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Overview

Vasil Kolev is affiliated with the Bulgarian Academy of Sciences in Bulgaria. Their research primarily spans the fields of neuroscience and psychology, focusing on cognitive neuroscience as the main subfield. Other subfields include clinical psychology, social psychology, experimental and cognitive psychology, and political science and international relations.

The scientist's body of work emphasizes several core topics. These include EEG and brain-computer interfaces, neural dynamics and brain function, neural and behavioral psychology studies, mindfulness and compassion interventions, functional brain connectivity studies, music therapy and health, and pain management and placebo effect.

Vasil Kolev has published in multiple academic venues, reflecting the cross-disciplinary breadth of their research. Frequent publication platforms are:

  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • Scientific Reports
  • International Journal of Psychophysiology
  • Clinical Neurophysiology
  • Proceedings of the Bulgarian Academy of Sciences

Their recent notable papers include:

  • "Common and distinct lateralised patterns of neural coupling during focused attention, open monitoring and loving kindness meditation" (2020, Scientific Reports)
  • "Aging-related changes in motor response-related theta activity" (2020, International Journal of Psychophysiology)
  • "Attentional and cognitive monitoring brain networks in long-term meditators depend on meditation states and expertise" (2021, Scientific Reports)
  • "The Two Arrows of Pain: Mechanisms of Pain Related to Meditation and Mental States of Aversion and Identification" (2022, Mindfulness)
  • "Can Brief Listening to Mozart's Music Improve Visual Working Memory? An Update on the Role of Cognitive and Emotional Factors" (2024, Journal of Intelligence)

Frequent co-authors collaborating with Vasil Kolev include:

  • Juliana Yordanova
  • Michael Falkenstein
  • Peter Malinowski
  • Antonino Raffone
  • Valentina Nicolardi

Best Publications

  • Wavelet entropy: a new tool for analysis of short duration brain electrical signals.

    Osvaldo A. Rosso;Susana Blanco;Juliana Yordanova;Vasil Kolev

  • Sensorimotor slowing with ageing is mediated by a functional dysregulation of motor-generation processes: evidence from high-resolution event-related potentials

    Juliana Yordanova;Vasil Kolev;Joachim Hohnsbein;Michael Falkenstein

  • Parallel systems of error processing in the brain.

    Juliana Yordanova;Michael Falkenstein;Joachim Hohnsbein;Vasil Kolev

  • Abnormal early stages of task stimulus processing in children with attention-deficit hyperactivity disorder – evidence from event-related gamma oscillations

    Juliana Yordanova;Tobias Banaschewski;Vasil Kolev;Wolfgang Woerner

  • P300 and alpha event-related desynchronization (ERD).

    Juliana Yordanova;Vasil Kolev;John Polich

  • Time-frequency analysis reveals multiple functional components during oddball P300.

    Vasil Kolev;Tamer Demiralp;Juliana Yordanova;Ahmet Ademoglu

  • Effects of aging on slowing of motor-response generation.

    Michael Falkenstein;Juliana Yordanova;Vasil Kolev

  • Wavelet entropy analysis of event-related potentials indicates modality-independent theta dominance.

    Juliana Yordanova;Vasil Kolev;Osvaldo A Rosso;Martin Schürmann

  • Time-frequency analysis of single-sweep event-related potentials by means of fast wavelet transform.

    Tamer Demiralp;Tamer Demiralp;Juliana Yordanova;Vasil Kolev;Ahmet Ademoglu

  • Single-sweep analysis of the theta frequency band during an auditory oddball task.

    Juliana Yordanova;Vasil Kolev

  • Delta responses and cognitive processing: single-trial evaluations of human visual P300.

    Martin Schürmann;Canan Başar-Eroglu;Vasil Kolev;Erol Başar

  • Age effects on visual EEG responses reveal distinct frontal alpha networks

    Vasil Kolev;Juliana Yordanova;Canan Basar-Eroglu;Erol Basar;Erol Basar

  • Simultaneous EEG and fMRI reveals a causally connected subcortical-cortical network during reward anticipation

    Michael M Plichta;Isabella Wolf;Sarah Hohmann;Sarah Baumeister

  • Motor-response generation as a source of aging-related behavioural slowing in choice-reaction tasks.

    Vasil Kolev;Michael Falkenstein;Juliana Yordanova

  • Shifting from implicit to explicit knowledge: different roles of early- and late-night sleep.

    Juliana Yordanova;Vasil Kolev;Rolf Verleger;Zhamak Bataghva

  • On the relation of movement-related potentials to the go/no-go effect on P3.

    Rolf Verleger;Thorsten Paehge;Thorsten Paehge;Vasil Kolev;Vasil Kolev;Juliana Yordanova;Juliana Yordanova

  • ANALYSIS OF PHASE-LOCKING IS INFORMATIVE FOR STUDYING EVENT-RELATED EEG ACTIVITY

    Vasil Kolev;Juliana Yordanova

  • Event-related alpha oscillations are functionally associated with P300 during information processing

    Juliana Yordanova;Vasil Kolev

  • The phase-locking of auditory gamma band responses in humans is sensitive to task processing

    Juliana Yordanova;Vasil Kolev;Tamer Demiralp

  • The Role of the BDNF Val66Met Polymorphism for the Synchronization of Error-Specific Neural Networks

    Christian Beste;Vasil Kolev;Juliana Yordanova;Katharina Domschke

Frequent Co-Authors

Juliana Yordanova
Juliana Yordanova Bulgarian Academy of Sciences
Erol Başar
Erol Başar Istanbul Kültür University
Rolf Verleger
Rolf Verleger University of Lübeck
Aribert Rothenberger
Aribert Rothenberger University of Göttingen
Martin Schürmann
Martin Schürmann University of Nottingham
Tamer Demiralp
Tamer Demiralp Istanbul University
Michael Falkenstein
Michael Falkenstein TU Dortmund University
Tobias Banaschewski
Tobias Banaschewski Heidelberg University
Hartmut Heinrich
Hartmut Heinrich University of Erlangen-Nuremberg
Canan Basar-Eroglu
Canan Basar-Eroglu University of Bremen

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