Areas of Focus
- Interaction Mechanisms of Attention and Working Memory
- Sustained Attention and Training Methods
- Spatial Perception Bias and Motor Learning
- Emotion Regulation Based on VR Technology
Work Experience
- 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
Academic Background & Achievements
- 2000 - Bachelor's Degree in Computer Applications: Southwest Jiaotong University
- 2007 - Doctorate in Neurobiology: Shanghai Institute of Life Sciences, Chinese Academy of Sciences
Publications
- 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
- Dual-task costs in memory recall precision reflect shared representational space, Li, Z., & Li, Z.*, 2021
- 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
- Pupillary response induced by stereoscopic stimuli, Li, Z., & Sun, F.*, 2005