Margarita Velinova Pavlova

Research Units

Affiliated Research areas

• Cognitive basis of human development, developmental disorders; comparative cognition

Keywords

• Not Avaliable
• Analogy
• Similarity
• Memory
• Learning
• Cognition
• Cognitive Development
• Analogical Reasoning
• Analogical Learning

Teaching areas

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• Cognitive Science
• Cognitive Psychology
• Cognitive Development
• Analogy
• Developmental Research Methods
• Memory and Learning

Summary

Margarita Pavlova is an assistant professor at the Department of Cognitive Science and Psychology at New Bulgarian University, where she obtained a BA in Psychology and an MA in Developmental Psychology. She received her Ph.D. in Psychology from the University of Kansas in 2022. Her research interests are in the role of analogical reasoning in learning and other cognitive processes in both children and adults. Currently, her research program is invested in understanding how analogical comparison and self-explanation affect learning and knowledge transfer.