Argiro Vatakis

Research Interests

• Multisensory processing
  • Audiovisual temporal perception for complex speech and non-speech stimuli.
  • Rhythm perception.
  • Attentional and sensory interactions.
  • Developmental and Cross-cultural differences in time perception.
• Intelligent Multimedia Systems:
  • Integration of visual and linguistic abilities in artificial agents.

CV

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Argiro Vataki is a postdoctoral researcher for the EU-funded project POETICON. She holds a BA in Psychology from California State University, Long Beach, CA, USA and a PhD in Experimental Psychology from the University of Oxford, U.K. Argiro has completed her doctoral research on the investigation of the factors modulating temporal perception for complex speech, musical, and object action events. She has also worked in human factors, vision science and psychoacoustics, and behavioural neuroscience projects. She has presented her work in many international meetings and has authored a number of peer reviewed articles on multisensory processing.

Contact

Websites

http://publicationslist.org/argiro.vatakis
http://my.indexcopernicus.com/metalargie
http://oxford.academia.edu/ArgiroVatakis

Publications

1. Vatakis, A., Ghazanfar, A. A., & Spence, C. (in press). Facilitation of multisensory integration by the 'unity effect' reveals that speech is special. Journal of Vision.
    
2. Vatakis, A., Portouli, V., & Bekiaris, E. (2008). Investigating the effects of continuous positive airway pressure (CPAP) treatment on driving and attentional performance of patients with sleep impairments. Proceedings of the 5th International Workshop on Wearable, Micro and Nano Technologies for the Personalised Health, pHealth 2008.
    
3. Vatakis, A., & Spence, C. (2008). Investigating the effects of inversion on configural processing using an audiovisual temporal order judgment task. Perception, 37, 143-160.
    
4. Vatakis, A., Navarra, J., Soto-Faraco, S., & Spence, C. (2008). Audiovisual temporal adaptation of speech: Temporal order versus simultaneity judgments. Experimental Brain Research, 185, 521-529.
    
5. Vatakis, A., & Spence, C. (2008). Evaluating the influence of the ‘unity assumption’ on the temporal perception of realistic audiovisual stimuli. Acta Psychologica, 127, 12-23.
    
6. Vatakis, A., & Spence, C. (2007). How ‘special’ is the human face? Evidence from an audiovisual temporal order judgment task. Neuroreport, 18, 1807-1811.
    
7. Vatakis, A., & Spence, C. (2007). Crossmodal binding: Evaluating the ‘unity assumption’ using complex audiovisual stimuli. Proceedings of the 19th International Congress on Acoustics (ICA).
    
8. Vatakis, A., & Spence, C. (2007). Crossmodal binding: Evaluating the ‘unity assumption’ using audiovisual speech stimuli. Perception & Psychophysics, 69, 744-756.
    
9. Vatakis, A., Navarra, J., Soto-Faraco, S., & Spence, C. (2007). Temporal recalibration during asynchronous audiovisual speech perception. Experimental Brain Research, 181, 173-181.
    
10. Vatakis, A., Bayliss, L., Zampini, M., & Spence, C. (2007). The influence of synchronous audiovisual distractors on audiovisual temporal order judgments. Perception & Psychophysics, 69, 298-309.
     
11. Vatakis, A., & Spence, C. (2007). Investigating the factors that influence the temporal perception of complex audiovisual events. Proceedings of the European Cognitive Science 2007 (EuroCogSci07), 389-394.
     
12. Vatakis, A., & Spence, C. (2006). Temporal order judgments for audiovisual targets embedded in unimodal and bimodal distractor streams. Neuroscience Letters, 408, 5-9.
     
13. Vatakis, A., & Spence, C. (2006). Audiovisual synchrony perception for music, speech, and object actions. Brain Research, 1111, 134-142.
     
14. Vatakis, A., & Spence, C. (2006). Evaluating the influence of frame rate on the temporal aspects of audiovisual speech perception. Neuroscience Letters, 405, 132-136.
     
15. Vatakis, A., & Spence, C. (2006). Audiovisual synchrony perception for speech and music using a temporal order judgment task. Neuroscience Letters, 393, 40-44.
     
16. Lyons, G., Sanabria, D., Vatakis, A., & Spence, C. (2006). The modulation of crossmodal integration by unimodal perceptual grouping: A visuo-tactile apparent motion study. Experimental Brain Research, 174, 510-516.
     
17. Krekelberg, B., Vatakis, A., & Kourtzi, Z. (2005). Implied motion from form in the human visual cortex. Journal of Neurophysiology, 94, 4373-4386.
     
18. Navarra, J., Vatakis, A., Zampini, M., Soto-Faraco, S., Humphreys, W., & Spence, C. (2005). Exposure to asynchronous audiovisual speech increases the temporal window for audiovisual integration of non-speech stimuli. Cognitive Brain Research, 25, 499-507.
     
19. Vatakis, A., Krekelberg, B., & Kourtzi, Z. (2004). Processing of global motion from form cues in the human visual cortex. Society for Neuroscience Abstracts, Program No. 301.19, 85.
     
20. Strybel, T. Z., & Vatakis, A. (2004).  A comparison of auditory and visual apparent motion presented individually and with crossmodal moving distractors. Perception, 33, 1033-1048.
     
21. Vatakis, A., & Spence, C. (2007, submitted). Assessing the effect of physical differences in the articulation of consonants and vowels on audiovisual temporal perception. Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research.