Biography

Dr. Zhiguo Wang is a Research Professor under the “Hundred Talents Program” at Zhejiang University. Zhiguo received his Ph.D. in Applied Psychology from the Institute of Psychology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, and he had his postdoctoral training at VU Amsterdam (the Netherlands) and Macquarie University (Australia). He was a Research Professor at the Center for Cognition and Brain Disorders at Hangzhou Normal University from 2012 to 2016. He joined SR Research Ltd. (Canada) in 2017 and was later promoted to a Senior Scientist position (2019). He joined Zhejiang University as a Research Professor in the Center for Psychological Sciences in 2021.

Dr. Zhiguo Wang was the principal investigator on multiple research grants and fellowships, including a National Natural Science Foundation of China grant and a prestigious fellowship from the Australian Research Council (Discovery Early Career Researcher Award). He has published more than 30 papers in highly regarded specialist journals like the Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory & Cognition, Journal of Vision, Psychonomic Bulletin & Review, and Vision Research.

The ongoing research work in his lab primarily focuses on human-computer interaction, but he is also interested in research topics like working memory, attention, and eye movements. The research techniques used in his lab include behavioral testing and psychophysics, eye-tracking, EEG, and computational modeling. Dr. Zhiguo Wang is currently taking graduate students (masters and Ph.D.). He welcomes students with a background in psychology, human factors, industrial engineering, automation, computer vision, biomedical engineering, etc., to join his group. Please feel free to contact him if you are interested in working with him as a postdoctoral researcher.

Work Experience

2021.05-present             Research Professor                                               Center for Psychological Sciences, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou, China

2017.01-2021.04             Senior Scientist / Research Support Specialist    SR Research Ltd., Ottawa, Canada

2012.09-2016.12             Research Professor                                              Center for Cognition and Brain Disorders, Hangzhou Normal University, Hangzhou, China

2015.09-2016.08             Postdoctoral researcher                                       Cognitive Science Department, Macquarie University, Sydney, Australia

2011.09-2012.08             Postdoctoral researcher                                       Cognitive Psychology Department, Vrije Universiteit, Amsterdam, the Netherlands

Education and Training

2006.09-2011.07                Ph.D. in Applied Psychology                                                   Institute of Psychology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China

2008.10-2011.01                Visiting Graduate Student                                                      Department of Psychology, Dalhousie University, Halifax, Canada

2003.09-2006.06                MA in Developmental and Educational Psychology                 School of Psychology, Beijing Normal University, Beijing, China

1999.09-2003.06                BA in Education                                                                        School of Psychology, Henan University, Kaifeng, China

Selected Research Projects

1.  Startup for the “Hundred Talents Program” at the Zhejiang University, 2021-2027, PI

2.  ARC Discovery Early Career Researcher Award (DE170100915), 2017-2018, PI

3.  National Natural Science Foundation of China (31371133), 2014-2017, PI

Selected Publications (^†student author, *corresponding author)

1.  Yan, C. ^†, He, T. ^†, & Wang, Z.* (2021). Predictive remapping leaves a behaviorally measurable attentional trace on eye-centered brain maps. Psychonomic Bulletin & Review, in press.

2.  Shen, Z. ^†, Ding, Y. ^†, Satal, J., & Wang, Z.* (2020). A concurrent working memory task does not necessarily impair spatial attention: Evidence from inhibition of return. Visual Cognition, in press.

3.  Zhang, X., Fu, W.^†, Xue, L., Zhao, J.*, & Wang, Z. (2019). Children with mathematical learning difficulties are sluggish in disengaging attention. Frontiers in Psychology, 10:932. DOI: 10.3389/fpsyg.2019.00932.

4.  Fu, W.^†, Zhao, J.*, Ding, Y., & Wang, Z. (2019). Dyslexic children are sluggish in disengaging spatial attention. Dyslexia, 25(2): 158-172. DOI: 10.1002/dys.1609

5.  Zhao, J.*, Yang, H. ^†, Weng, X., & Wang, Z. (2018). Emergent attentional bias towards visual word forms in the environment: Evidence from eye movements. Frontiers in Psychology, 9:1378. DOI: 10.3389/fpsyg.2018.01378

6.  Wang, B.^†, Yan, C.^†, Klein, R. M., & Wang, Z.* (2018). Inhibition of return revisited: Localized inhibition on top of a pervasive bias. Psychonomic Bulletin & Review, 25(5): 1861-1867. DOI: 10.3758/s13423-017-1410-9

7.  Wang, B.^†, Cao, X., Theeuwes, J., Olivers, C. N. L., & Wang, Z.* (2017). Separate capacities for storing different features in visual working memory. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory & Cognition, 43(2): 226-236. DOI: 10.1037/xlm0000295.

8.  Ding, Y.^†, Zhao, J.*, He, T., Tan, Y., Zheng, L., & Wang, Z. (2016). Selective impairments in covert shifts of attention in Chinese dyslexic children. Dyslexia, 22(4): 362-378. DOI: 10.1002/dys.1541.

9.  Yan, C.^†, He, T., Klein, R. M., & Wang, Z.* (2016). Predictive remapping gives rise to environmental inhibition of return. Psychonomic Bulletin & Review, 23(6): 1860-1866. DOI: 10.3758/s13423-016-1066-x.

10.  Wang, B.^†, Cao, X., Theeuwes, J., Olivers, C. N. L., & Wang, Z.* (2016). Location-based effects underlie feature conjunction benefits in visual working memory. Journal of Vision, 16(11): 12, 1-13. DOI: 10.1167/16.11.12.

11.  Ding, Y.^†, He, T., Satel, J., & Wang, Z.* (2016). Inhibitory cueing effects following manual and saccadic responses to arrow cues. Attention, Perception & Psychophysics, 78(4): 1020-1029. DOI: 10.3758/BF03212152.

12.  He, T.^†, Ding, Y., & Wang, Z.* (2015). Environment- and eye-centered inhibitory cueing effects are both observed after a methodological confound is eliminated. Scientific Reports, 5: 16586. DOI: 10.1038/srep16586.

13.  Qian, H.^†, Gao, X., & Wang, Z.* (2015). Faces distort eye movement trajectories, but the distortion is not stronger for your own face. Experimental Brain Research, 233: 2155-2166. DOI: 10.1007/s00221-015-4286-9.

14.  Wang, B.^†, Hilchey, M. D., Cao, X., & Wang, Z.* (2014). The spatial distribution of inhibition of return revisited: No difference found between manual and saccadic responses. Neuroscience Letters, 578: 128–132. DOI: 10.1016/j.neulet.2014.06.050.

15.  Wang, Z.* & Theeuwes, J. (2014). Distractor evoked deviations of saccade trajectory are modulated by fixation activity in the superior colliculus: computational and behavioral evidence. PLoS ONE, 9(12): e116382. DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0116382.

16.  Wang, Z.*, & Theeuwes, J. (2012). Dissociable spatial and temporal effects of inhibition of return. PLoS ONE, 7(8): e44290. DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0044290.

17.  Wang, Z.*, Kruijne, W., & Theeuwes, J. (2012). Lateral interactions in the superior colliculus produce saccade deviation in a neural field model. Vision Research, 52(1): 66-74. DOI: 10.1016/j.visres.2012.03.024.

18.  Wang, Z., Satel, J., Hilchey, M. D., & Klein, R. M.* (2012). Averaging saccades are repelled by prior uninformative cues at both short and long intervals. Visual Cognition, 20(7): 825-847. DOI: 10.1080/13506285.2012.705358.

19.  Wang, Z., & Klein, R. M.* (2012). Focal spatial attention can eliminate inhibition of return. Psychonomic Bulletin & Review, 19(3): 462-469. DOI: 10.3758/s13423-012-0226-x.

20.  Wang, Z.*, Satel, J., & Klein, R. M. (2012). Sensory and motor mechanisms of oculomotor inhibition of return. Experimental Brain Research, 218(3): 441-453. DOI: 10.1007/s00221-012-3033-8.

21.  Wang, Z.*, Satel, J., Trappenberg, T. P., & Klein, R. M. (2011). Aftereffects of saccades explored in a dynamic neural field model of the superior colliculus. Journal of Eye Movement Research, 4(2): 1-16. DOI: 10.16910/jemr.4.2.1.

22.  Wang, Z.* & Klein, R. M. (2010). Searching for inhibition of return in visual search: A review. Vision Research, 50(2): 220-228. DOI: 10.1016/j.visres.2009.11.013.

23.  Wang, Z.*, Zhang, K., & Klein, R. M. (2010). Inhibition of return in static but not necessarily in dynamic search. Attention, Perception & Psychophysics, 72(1): 76-85. DOI: 10.3758/APP.72.1.76.