Marina Hristova

Marina Hristova serves as a Lecturer in the Department of Foreign Languages and Cultures at New Bulgarian University (NBU), teaching undergraduate courses including Practice Translation (ENGB017), Practical English (ENGB510), and Practical English (ENGB610). Her office hours are held Tuesdays 18:00-19:30 and Thursdays 13:00-14:30 & 18:00-19:00 in Building I Library.

Her research centers on experimental psycholinguistics with emphasis on bilingual cognitive processing. Key investigations include concreteness effects in cross-language translation, gender congruency in bilingual lexicons, non-selective lexical access mechanisms, and verb-induced spatial attention. She employs methodologies such as word-translation tasks, ERP neuroimaging, and eye-tracking experiments primarily with Bulgarian-English bilingual populations.

Publications from 2007-2008 reveal consistent focus on how linguistic structures (e.g., grammatical gender, verb semantics) interact with cognitive processes. Her work demonstrates that translation directionality modulates concreteness effects, grammatical gender influences cognate processing, and verbs automatically trigger spatial attention shifts—contributing to embodied cognition theories in bilingual contexts.

No scientific awards or fellowships are documented. Regarding academic supervision and research funding, available materials contain no information about graduate students advised or external grants secured by Dr. Hristova.