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Department of General Psychology and Methodology

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  8. Alexander (Sasha) Pastukhov

PD Dr. Alexander (Sasha) Pastukhov

Akademischer Rat / Assistant Professor 

Contact info:

Alexander.Pastukhov(at)uni-bamberg.de
Office M3/330
Tel.: 863-1887

Consultation hours:

On appointment.

Around the web:

Personal website: alexander-pastukhov.github.io
Google scholar: https://scholar.google.de/citations?user=j7xgtUQAAAAJ
ResearchGate: researchgate.net/profile/Alexander_Pastukhov
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8738-8591

Research interests:

  • multi-stable perception
  • prior knowledge and perception as inference
  • history effects in perception,
  • perception of transformations,
  • attention and microsaccades
  • consciousness

Awards:

2024 Best Paper Award at 32nd International Symposium on Graph Drawing and Network Visualization (Track 2: Experimental, Applied, and Network Visualization Aspects)
2013 “Best of the Year” award from the Psychonomic Society for work published in Attention, Perception, and Psychophysics for two publications (link)

Reviewer for:

Attention, Perception, & Psychophysics; Behavioural Brain Research; Computation Intelligence and Neuroscience; Frontiers in Physiology; iPerception; Journal of General Psychology; Journal of Vision; Journal of the American Aging Association; Journal of Experimental Child Psychology; Perception; PLOS Computational Biology; PLOS ONE; Vision Research

Bergner-Koether, R., L. Peschka, A. Pastukhov, et al. (2025). “The Relevance of Hypersexuality and Impulsivity in Different Groups of Treatment-Seekers With and Without (Exclusive) Pedophilia”. In: Sexual Abuse 37.4, pp. 371–398. ISSN: 1079-0632, 1573-286X. DOI: 10.1177/10790632241271204.

D?bler, N. A., A. Pastukhov, and C. Carbon (2025). “Exploring the Hypothetical Impact of Genetic Engineering on Ethnicity: An Analysis of a Large‐Scale Data Set Retrieved From a Museal Setting”. In: Bioethics, p. bioe.70005. ISSN: 0269-9702, 1467-8519. DOI: 10.1111/bioe.70005.

F?rster, H., F. Klesen, T. Dwyer, et al. (2025). “GraphTrials: Visual Proofs of Graph Properties”. In: IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics 31.10, pp. 8767–8781. ISSN: 1077-2626, 1941-0506, 2160-9306. DOI: 10.1109/TVCG.2025.3577533.

Leder, J., A. Schütz, and A. Pastukhov (2023). “Keeping the Kids Home: Increasing Concern for Others in Times of Crisis”. In: Social Psychology 54.1-2, pp. 27–39. ISSN: 1864-9335, 2151-2590. DOI: 10.1027/1864-9335/a000463.

Pastukhov, A., L. Ko?mann, and C. Carbon (2023). “Reconstructing a disambiguation sequence that forms perceptual memory of multistable displays via reverse correlation method: Bias onset perception but gently”. In: Journal of Vision 23.3, p. 10. ISSN: 1534-7362. DOI: 10.1167/jov.23.3.10.

Pastukhov, A., M. Styrnal, and C. Carbon (2023). “History-dependent changes to distribution of dominance phases in multistable perception”. In: Journal of Vision 23.3, p. 16. ISSN: 1534-7362. DOI: 10.1167/jov.23.3.16.

Styrnal, M., C. Carbon, and A. Pastukhov (2023). “When a bank becomes a bank, and a bank is the bank but not the bank: Multistability of homonyms’ meaning”. In: i-Perception 14.4, p. 20416695231194210. ISSN: 2041-6695, 2041-6695. DOI: 10.1177/20416695231194210.

Breitschaft, S. J., A. Pastukhov, and C. Carbon (2022). “Where's My Button? Evaluating the User Experience of Surface Haptics in Featureless Automotive User Interfaces”. In: IEEE Transactions on Haptics 15.2, pp. 292–303. ISSN: 1939-1412, 2329-4051, 2334-0134. DOI: 10.1109/TOH.2021.3131058.

Pastukhov, A. (2022). “bistablehistory: an R package for history-dependent analysis of perceptual time series”. In: Journal of Open Source Software 7.70, p. 3901. ISSN: 2475-9066. DOI: 10.21105/joss.03901.

Pastukhov, A. and C. Carbon (2022). “Change not State: Perceptual coupling in multistable displays reflects transient bias induced by perceptual change”. In: Psychonomic Bulletin & Review 29.1, pp. 97–107. ISSN: 1069-9384, 1531-5320. DOI: 10.3758/s13423-021-01960-7.

Pastukhov, A., L. Ko?mann, and C. Carbon (2022). “When perception is stronger than physics: Perceptual similarities rather than laws of physics govern the perception of interacting objects”. In: Attention, Perception, & Psychophysics 84.1, pp. 124–137. ISSN: 1943-3921, 1943-393X. DOI: 10.3758/s13414-021-02383-1.

Cao, R., A. Pastukhov, S. Aleshin, et al. (2021). “Binocular rivalry reveals an out-of-equilibrium neural dynamics suited for decision-making”. In: eLife 10, p. e61581. ISSN: 2050-084X. DOI: 10.7554/eLife.61581.

Pastukhov, A. (2021). “Multistable Perception”. In: Oxford Research Encyclopedia of Psychology. Oxford University Press. ISBN: 978-0-19-023655-7. DOI: 10.1093/acrefore/9780190236557.013.893.

Pastukhov, A. and C. Carbon (2021). “Clever Cats: Do They Utilize Change Blindness as a Covered Approaching Strategy?” In: i-Perception 12.1, p. 204166952199459. ISSN: 2041-6695. DOI: 10.1177/2041669521994597.

Leder, J., A. Pastukhov, and A. Schütz (2020a). “Sharing with a stranger: people are more generous with time than money”. In: Comprehensive Results in Social Psychology 4.2, pp. 109–138. ISSN: 2374-3603, 2374-3611. DOI: 10.1080/23743603.2020.1831377.

Leder, J., A. Pastukhov, and A. Schütz (2020b). “Social value orientation, subjective effectiveness, perceived cost, and the use of protective measures during the COVID-19 pandemic in Germany”. In: Comprehensive Results in Social Psychology 4.3, pp. 227–249. ISSN: 2374-3603, 2374-3611. DOI: 10.1080/23743603.2020.1828850.

Pastukhov, A., K. Burkel, and C. Carbon (2020). “Shape specificity of neural persistence for the kinetic-depth effect matches perceptual adaptation but not sensory memory”. In: Attention, Perception, & Psychophysics 82.4, pp. 1942–1948. ISSN: 1943-3921. DOI: 10.3758/s13414-019-01954-7.

Pastukhov, A., P. Kastrup, I. F. Abs, et al. (2019). “Switch rates for orthogonally oriented kinetic-depth displays are correlated across observers”. In: Journal of Vision 19.6, pp. 1, 1–13. ISSN: 1534-7362. DOI: 10.1167/19.6.1.

Carbon, C. and A. Pastukhov (2018). “Reliable Top-Left Light Convention Starts With Early Renaissance: An Extensive Approach Comprising 10k Artworks”. In: Frontiers in Psychology 9.April, pp. 1–7. ISSN: 1664-1078. DOI: 10.3389/fpsyg.2018.00454.

Devyatko, D. and A. Pastukhov (2018). “Extrinsic grouping factors in motion-induced blindness”. In: PLoS ONE 13.1. Ed. by P. D. L. Howe, p. e0192133. ISSN: 1932-6203. DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0192133.

Nalis, D., A. Schütz, and A. Pastukhov (2018). “The Bamberg Trucking Game: A Paradigm for Assessing the Detection of Win–Win Solutions in a Potential Conflict Scenario”. In: Frontiers in Psychology 9.February, pp. 1–13. ISSN: 1664-1078. DOI: 10.3389/fpsyg.2018.00138.

Pastukhov, A., J. Prasch, and C. Carbon (2018). “Out of sight, out of mind: Occlusion and eye closure destabilize moving bistable structure-from-motion displays”. In: Attention, Perception, & Psychophysics 80.5, pp. 1193–1204. ISSN: 1943-3921. DOI: 10.3758/s13414-018-1505-z.

Pastukhov, A. and C. R. Zaus (2018). “Perceptual coupling induces co-rotation and speeds up alternations in adjacent bi-stable structure-from-motion objects”. In: Journal of Vision 18, pp. 1–14. DOI: 10.1167/18.4.21.

Pastukhov, A. (2017). “First, you need a Gestalt: An interaction of bottom-up and top-down streams during the perception of the ambiguously rotating human walker”. In: Scientific Reports 7.1, p. 1158. ISSN: 2045-2322. DOI: 10.1038/s41598-017-01376-1.

Cao, R., A. Pastukhov, M. Mattia, et al. (2016). “Collective Activity of Many Bistable Assemblies Reproduces Characteristic Dynamics of Multistable Perception”. In: Journal of Neuroscience 36.26, pp. 6957–6972. ISSN: 0270-6474, 1529-2401. DOI: