2000 - Bachelor's Degree in Computer Applications: Southwest Jiaotong University
2007 - Doctorate in Neurobiology: Shanghai Institute of Life Sciences, Chinese Academy of Sciences
2007-10 to 2008-10 - University of Louisville (USA) - Postdoctoral Researcher in Psychology
2008-10 to 2015-05 - Swarthmore College (USA) - Postdoctoral Researcher in Psychology
2015-06 to 2020-12 - Zhejiang University - Researcher (Hundred Talents Program), Doctoral Supervisor
2021-01 to Present - Zhejiang University - Tenured Associate Professor, Researcher, Doctoral Supervisor
Research
Interaction Mechanisms of Attention and Working Memory Sustained Attention and Training Methods Spatial Perception Bias and Motor Learning Emotion Regulation Based on VR Technology
Multiple visual items can be simultaneously compared to target templates in memory, Zheng, Y., Lou, J., Lu, Y.*, & Li, Z.*, 2023
Storage interference in working memory cannot be removed by attention, Lu, R., Li, Z., Yan, C., Wang, T.*, & Li, Z.*, 2023
Free time-induced retroactive effects in working memory: Evidence from the single-gap paradigm, Lu, R.†, Xu, Y.†, Xu, J., Wang, T.*, & Li, Z.*, 2023
Perceptual scale expansion: A natural design for improving the precision of motor control, Yan, C.†, Chen, Y.†, Zhang, Y., Kong, L., Durgin, F. H.*, & Li, Z.*, 2023
The elicitation of affordance depends on conceptual attributes: evidence from a virtual reality study, Lai, Q., Zhang, Y., & Li, Z.*, 2023
Set size effects in spatial updating are independent of the online/offline updating strategy, Lu, R., Yu, C., Li, Z., Mou, W., & Li, Z.*, 2020
Memories of motor adaptation do not necessarily decay with behavioral unlearning, Yan, C., Chen, Y., Lu, Z., & Li, Z.*, 2020
Visual working memory load does not affect the overall stimulus processing time in visual search, Xin, K., & Li, Z.*, 2020
Visual search may not require target representation in working memory or long-term memory, Li, Z.*, Xin, K., Lou, J., & Li, Z., 2019
Flanker tasks based on congruency manipulation are biased measures of selective attention in perceptual load studies, Li, Z.*, & Lou, J., 2019
Reconceptualizing perceptual load as a rate problem: The role of time in the allocation of selective attention, Li, Z.*, Xin, K., Li, W., & Li, Y., 2018
Does perceived angular declination contribute to perceived optical slant on level ground?, Li, Z., & Durgin, F. H.*, 2018
A large-scale horizontal-vertical illusion produced with small objects separated in depth, Li, Z., & Durgin, F. H.*, 2017
Connectedness underlies the underestimation of the horizontal vertical illusion in L-shaped configurations, Cai, Y., Wang, C., Song, C., & Li, Z.*, 2017
Perceived azimuth direction is exaggerated: Converging evidence from explicit and implicit measures, Li, Z., & Durgin, F. H.*, 2016
Large perceptual distortions of locomotor action space occur in ground-based coordinates: Angular expansion and the large-scale horizontal-vertical illusion, Klein, B. J., Li, Z., & Durgin, F. H.*, 2016
Depth compression based on mis-scaling of binocular disparity may contribute to angular expansion in perceived optical slant, Li, Z., & Durgin, F. H.*, 2013
On the anisotropy of perceived ground extents and the interpretation of walked distance as a measure of perception, Li, Z., Sun, E., Strawser, C. J., Spiegel, A., Klein, B., & Durgin, F. H.*, 2013
Humans have precise knowledge of familiar geographical slants, Stigliani, A., Li, Z., & Durgin, F. H.*, 2013
Expert performance by athletes in the verbal estimation of spatial extents does not alter their perceptual metric of space, Durgin, F. H.*, Leonard-Solis, K., Masters, O., Schmelz, B., & Li, Z., 2012
A comparison of two theories of perceived distance on the ground plane: The angular expansion hypothesis and the intrinsic bias hypothesis, Li, Z., & Durgin, F. H.*, 2012
Manual matching of perceived surface orientation is affected by arm posture: Evidence of calibration between proprioception and visual experience in near space, Li, Z., & Durgin, F. H.*, 2012
The underestimation of egocentric distance: Evidence from frontal matching tasks, Li, Z., Phillips, J., & Durgin, F. H.*, 2011
Action and motivation: Measuring perception or strategies?, Durgin, F. H.*, DeWald, D., Lechich, S., Li, Z., & Ontiveros, Z., 2011
The perception of 2D orientation is categorically biased, Durgin, F. H.*, & Li, Z., 2011
Perceptual scale expansion: An efficient angular coding strategy for locomotor space, Durgin, F. H.*, & Li, Z., 2011
An imputed dissociation might be an artifact: Further evidence for the generalizability of the observations of Durgin et al. 2010, Durgin, F. H.*, Hajnal, A., Li, Z., Tonge, N., & Stigliani, A., 2011
Design, data, and theory regarding a digital hand inclinometer: a portable device for studying slant perception, Li, Z., & Durgin, F. H.*, 2011
Perceived slant of binocularly viewed large-scale surfaces: A common model from explicit and implicit measures, Li, Z., & Durgin, F. H.*, 2010
Controlled interaction: Strategies for using virtual reality to study perception, Durgin, F. H.*, & Li, Z., 2010
Slant perception in near space is categorically biased: Evidence for a vertical tendency, Durgin, F. H.*, Li, Z., & Hajnal, A., 2010
Palm boards are not action measures: An alternative to the two-systems theory of geographical slant perception, Durgin, F. H.*, Hajnal, A., Li, Z., Tonge, N., & Stigliani, A., 2010
Downhill slopes look shallower from the edge, Li, Z., & Durgin, F. H.*, 2009
Properties of pupillary responses to dynamic random-dot stereograms, Li, Z., Liang, P., & Sun, F.*, 2006