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Xiaowei Ding
Psychology
Sun Yat-Sen University
Guangdong
Language: Chinese, English
Cognitive Science
Memory Systems
Social Learning
Decision Making
Social Vision
Consciousness
Attention
Clinical Applications
Human-Computer Interaction
Education
Areas of Focus
- Cognitive Science and Applications
Work Experience
- 2015-2018: Postdoctoral Researcher, Department of Psychology and Behavioral Sciences, Zhejiang University
- 2018-2024: Associate Professor, Department of Psychology, Sun Yat-sen University
- 2024-present: Professor, Department of Psychology, Sun Yat-sen University
Academic Background & Achievements
- 2002-2006: Bachelor's Degree in Psychology, Shandong Normal University
- 2009-2015: Ph.D. in Psychology and Behavioral Sciences, Zhejiang University
Publications
- The basic units of working memory manipulation are Boolean maps, not objects, Ji, H., Wang, K., Kong, G., Zhang, X., He, W., & Ding, X., 2024
- Unmasking social attention: The key distinction between social and non-social attention emerges in disengagement, not engagement, Wang, S., Lin, Y., & Ding, X., 2024
- Working memory for gaze benefits from the face context, Ye, S., Ye, T., Duan, Z., & Ding, X., 2023
- When “looking at nothing” imparts something: Retrospective gaze cues flexibly direct prioritization in visual working memory, Zhang, Y., Ye, S., Chen, W., & Ding, X., 2023
- Two discoveries, one principle: Using a two-stage Bayesian model to explain a dissociated working memory distraction effect, Duan, Z., Huang, Y., Shi, B., & Ding, X., 2023
- Direct evidence for proactive suppression of salient-but-irrelevant emotional information inputs, Xu, L., Yang, Z., Ji, H., Chen, W., Lin, Z., Huang, Y., & Ding, X., 2023
- Biological motion gains preferential access to awareness during continuous flash suppression: local biological motion Matters, Sun, Y., Wang, X., Huang, Y., Ji, H., & Ding, X., 2021
- Gaze towards my choice: Noneconomic social interaction changes interpersonal trust only with positive feedback, Duan, Z., Ye, T., Poggi, A., & Ding, X., 2020
- Selective attention operates on the group level for interactive biological motion, Ji, H., Yin, J., Huang, Y., & Ding, X., 2020
- Two equals one: two human actions during social interaction are grouped as one unit in working memory, Ding, X., Gao, Z., & Shen, M., 2017
- Biphasic attentional orienting triggered by invisible social signals, Sun, Y., Stein, T., Liu, W., Ding, X., & Nie, Q. Y., 2017
- Social attention directs working memory maintenance, Nie, Q. Y., Ding, X., Chen, J., & Conci, M., 2018
- Binding biological motion and visual features in working memory, Ding, X., Zhao, Y., Wu, F., Lu, X., Gao, Z., & Shen, M., 2015
- Backward-walking biological motion orients attention to moving away instead of moving toward, Ding, X., Yin, J., Shui, R., Zhou, J., & Shen, M., 2017
