Publications

2025

Bergner-Koether, Ralf, Lasse Peschka, Alexander Pastukhov, Claus-Christian Carbon, Sabine Steins-Loeber, Göran Hajak, and Martin Rettenberger (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.

Döbler, Niklas A., Alexander Pastukhov, and Claus‐Christian 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.

Förster, Henry, Felix Klesen, Tim Dwyer, Peter Eades, Seok-Hee Hong, Stephen Kobourov, Giuseppe Liotta, Kazuo Misue, Fabrizio Montecchiani, Alexander Pastukhov, and Falk Schreiber (2025). GraphTrials: Visual Proofs of Graph Properties. In: IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics 31.10, pp. 8767–8781.

Goetz, Itay, Lara Bernhardt, Friederike Margareta Karg, Alexander (Sasha) Pastukhov, and Claus-Christian Carbon (2025). Art for art’s sake? The influence of art framing and context on the evaluation of immoral behaviour. In: Frontiers in Communication 10, p. 1655343.

Pastukhov, Alexander, Malin Styrnal, Claus-Christian Carbon, and Árni Kristjánsson (2025). Two routes to a target: Visual priming for direct and indirect attentional sets. In: Memory & Cognition.

2023

Leder, Johannes, Astrid Schütz, and Alexander Pastukhov (2023). Keeping the Kids Home: Increasing Concern for Others in Times of Crisis. In: Social Psychology 54.1-2, pp. 27–39.

Pastukhov, Alexander, Lisa Koßmann, and Claus-Christian 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.

Pastukhov, Alexander, Malin Styrnal, and Claus-Christian Carbon (2023). History-dependent changes to distribution of dominance phases in multistable perception. In: Journal of Vision 23.3, p. 16.

Styrnal, Malin, Claus-Christian Carbon, and Alexander 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.

2022

Breitschaft, Stefan Josef, Alexander Pastukhov, and Claus-Christian 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.

Pastukhov, Alexander (2022). bistablehistory: an R package for history-dependent analysis of perceptual time series. In: Journal of Open Source Software 7.70, p. 3901.

Pastukhov, Alexander and Claus-Christian 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.

Pastukhov, Alexander, Lisa Koßmann, and Claus-Christian 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.

2021

Cao, Robin, Alexander Pastukhov, Stepan Aleshin, Maurizio Mattia, and Jochen Braun (2021). Binocular rivalry reveals an out-of-equilibrium neural dynamics suited for decision-making. In: eLife 10, p. e61581.

Pastukhov, Alexander (2021). Multistable Perception. In: Oxford Research Encyclopedia of Psychology. Oxford University Press. ISBN: 978-0-19-023655-7.

Pastukhov, Alexander and Claus-Christian Carbon (2021). Clever Cats: Do They Utilize Change Blindness as a Covered Approaching Strategy? In: i-Perception 12.1, p. 204166952199459.

2020

Leder, Johannes, Alexander Pastukhov, and Astrid Schütz (2020). Sharing with a stranger: people are more generous with time than money. In: Comprehensive Results in Social Psychology 4.2, pp. 109–138.

Leder, Johannes, Alexander Pastukhov, and Astrid Schütz (2020). 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.

Pastukhov, Alexander, Kristina Burkel, and Claus-Christian 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.

2019

Pastukhov, Alexander, Philipp Kastrup, Isabel Friederike Abs, and Claus-Christian Carbon (2019). Switch rates for orthogonally oriented kinetic-depth displays are correlated across observers. In: Journal of Vision 19.6, pp. 1, 1–13.

2018

Carbon, Claus-Christian and Alexander 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.

Devyatko, Dina and Alexander Pastukhov (2018). Extrinsic grouping factors in motion-induced blindness. In: PLoS ONE 13.1. Ed. by Piers Douglas Lionel Howe, p. e0192133.

Nalis, Dario, Astrid Schütz, and Alexander 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.

Pastukhov, Alexander, Johanna Prasch, and Claus-Christian 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.

Pastukhov, Alexander and Christina Rita 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.

2017

Pastukhov, Alexander (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.

2016

Cao, R., A. Pastukhov, M. Mattia, and J. Braun (2016). Collective Activity of Many Bistable Assemblies Reproduces Characteristic Dynamics of Multistable Perception. In: Journal of Neuroscience 36.26, pp. 6957–6972.

Pastukhov, Alexander (2016). Perception and the strongest sensory memory trace of multi-stable displays both form shortly after the stimulus onset. In: Attention, Perception, & Psychophysics 78.2, pp. 674–684.

Pastukhov, Alexander and Jan-Nikolas Klanke (2016). Exogenously triggered perceptual switches in multistable structure-from-motion occur in the absence of visual awareness. In: Journal of Vision 16.3, p. 14.

2015

Pastukhov, Alexander, Solveiga Vivian-Griffiths, and Jochen Braun (2015). Transformation priming helps to disambiguate sudden changes of sensory inputs. In: Vision Research 116, pp. 36–44.

2014

Pastukhov, Alexander, Anna Lissner, and Jochen Braun (2014). Perceptual adaptation to structure-from-motion depends on the size of adaptor and probe objects, but not on the similarity of their shapes. In: Attention, Perception, & Psychophysics 76.2, pp. 473–488.

Pastukhov, Alexander, Anna Lissner, Jana Füllekrug, and Jochen Braun (2014). Sensory memory of illusory depth in structure-from-motion. In: Attention, Perception, & Psychophysics 76.1, pp. 123–32.

2013

Pastukhov, Alexander and Jochen Braun (2013). Disparate time-courses of adaptation and facilitation in multi-stable perception. In: Learning & Perception 5.Supplement 2, pp. 101–118.

Pastukhov, Alexander and Jochen Braun (2013). Structure-from-motion: dissociating perception, neural persistence, and sensory memory of illusory depth and illusory rotation. In: Attention, Perception, & Psychophysics 75.2, pp. 322–340.

Pastukhov, Alexander, Jana Füllekrug, and Jochen Braun (2013). Sensory memory of structure-from-motion is shape-specific. In: Attention, Perception, & Psychophysics 75.6, pp. 1215–1229.

Pastukhov, Alexander, Pedro E García-Rodríguez, Joachim Haenicke, Antoni Guillamon, Gustavo Deco, and Jochen Braun (2013). Multi-stable perception balances stability and sensitivity. In: Frontiers in Computational Neuroscience 7.17, p. 17.

Pastukhov, Alexander, Victoria Vonau, Solveiga Stonkute, and Jochen Braun (2013). Spatial and temporal attention revealed by microsaccades. In: Vision Research 85.0, pp. 45–57.

2012

Pastukhov, Alexander, Victoria Vonau, and Jochen Braun (2012). Believable change: Bistable reversals are governed by physical plausibility. In: Journal of Vision 12.1, pp. 17–17.

Stonkute, Solveiga, Jochen Braun, and Alexander Pastukhov (2012). The Role of Attention in Ambiguous Reversals of Structure-From-Motion. In: PLoS ONE 7.5. Ed. by Suliann Ben Hamed, p. e37734.

2011

Hudak, Mariann (2011). Increased readiness for adaptation and faster alternation rates under binocular rivalry in children. In: Frontiers in Human Neuroscience 5.

Pastukhov, Alexander and Jochen Braun (2011). Cumulative history quantifies the role of neural adaptation in multistable perception. In: Journal of Vision 11.10, pp. 12–12.

2010

Pastukhov, Alexander and Jochen Braun (2010). Rare but precious: Microsaccades are highly informative about attentional allocation. In: Vision Research 50.12, pp. 1173–1184.

Pastukhov, Alexander, Victoria Vonau, and Jochen Braun (2010). No Stopping and No Slowing: Removing Visual Attention with No Effect on Reversals of Phenomenal Appearance. In: Artificial Neural Networks – ICANN 2010. Ed. by Konstantinos Diamantaras, Wlodek Duch and Lazaros S. Iliadis. Vol. 6354. Lecture Notes in Computer Science. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer Berlin Heidelberg, pp. 510–515. ISBN: 978-3-642-15824-7 978-3-642-15825-4.

2009

Pastukhov, Alexander, Laura Fischer, and Jochen Braun (2009). Visual attention is a single, integrated resource. In: Vision Research 49.10, pp. 1166–1173.

2008

Pastukhov, A. and J. Braun (2008). A short-term memory of multi-stable perception. In: Journal of Vision 8.13, pp. 7–7.

2007

Pastukhov, Alexander and Jochen Braun (2007). Perceptual reversals need no prompting by attention. In: Journal of Vision 7.10, p. 5.