Faculty Profiles - XU Zoe Jing | The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology

Zoe Jing XU
徐靜

PhD in Psychology
University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, 2024

Research Assistant Professor
Division of Social Science

(852) 2358 7831
zoejingxu@ust.hk
Room 2372
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ORCID

0000-0002-2649-418X

ResearcherID

AEZ-1628-2022

Scopus ID

57222432434

Research Interest Publications

Research Interest

Cognitive psychology
Visual attention and perception

Publications

All Years 11 2026 2 2025 2 2024 2 2023 0 2022 1 2021 2 2020 2

2026 2

Evaluating the contributions of top-down and bottom-up processing on eye movements during parallel visual search

Attention, Perception, and Psychophysics, v. 88, (3), article number 75
Tan, Howard Jia He; Lleras, Alejandro; Xu, Zoe Jing; Ding, Yifan; Buetti, Simona
Article

Toward a better understanding of target distinctiveness in visual search: How color, shape, and texture information combine to guide search

Journal of Experimental Psychology: General, v. 155, (3), p. 839-875
Xu, Zoe Jing; Lleras, Alejandro; Buetti, Simona
Article

2025 2

Evaluating the contribution of parallel processing of color and shape in a conjunction search task

Scientific Reports, v. 15, (1), article number 7760
Cui, Andrea Yaoyun; Buetti, Simona; Xu, Zoe Jing; Lleras, Alejandro
Article

Quantifying the Relationship Between Search Efficiency and Perceptual Similarity in Color Space Across Different Efficient Search Tasks

Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance, v. 51, (7), p. 850-874
Lleras, Alejandro; Xu, Zoe Jing; Tan, Howard Jia He; Shao, Yujie; Buetti, Simona
Article

2024 2

Skills and cautiousness predict performance in difficult search

Attention, Perception, and Psychophysics, v. 86, (6), p. 1897-1912
Xu, Zoe Jing; Buetti, Simona; Xia, Yan; Lleras, Alejandro
Article

Top-down instructions influence the attentional weight on color and shape dimensions during bidimensional search

Scientific Reports, v. 14, (1), article number 31376
Xu, Zoe Jing; Lleras, Alejandro; Gong, Zixu Gavin; Buetti, Simona
Article

2022 1

Incorporating the properties of peripheral vision into theories of visual search

Nature Reviews Psychology, v. 1, (10), p. 590-604
Lleras, Alejandro; Buetti, Simona; Xu, Zoe Jing
Article

2021 2

Distractor–Distractor Interactions in Visual Search for Oriented Targets Explain the Increased Difficulty Observed in Nonlinearly Separable Conditions

Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance, v. 47, (9), p. 1274-1297
Xu, Zoe Jing; Lleras, Alejandro; Shao, Yujie; Buetti, Simona
Article

Predicting how surface texture and shape combine in the human visual system to direct attention

Scientific Reports, v. 11, (1), article number 6170
Xu, Zoe Jing; Lleras, Alejandro; Buetti, Simona
Article

2020 1

A target contrast signal theory of parallel processing in goal-directed search

Attention, Perception, and Psychophysics, v. 82, (2), p. 394-425
Lleras, Alejandro; Wang, Zhiyuan; Ng, Gavin Jun Peng; Ballew, Kirk; Xu, Jing; Buetti, Simona
Article

2019 1

Predicting how color and shape combine in the human visual system to direct attention

Scientific Reports, v. 9, (1), article number 20258
Buetti, Simona; Xu, Jing; Lleras, Alejandro
Article

Article 2

Evaluating the contributions of top-down and bottom-up processing on eye movements during parallel visual search

Attention, Perception, and Psychophysics, v. 88, (3), article number 75
Tan, Howard Jia He; Lleras, Alejandro; Xu, Zoe Jing; Ding, Yifan; Buetti, Simona

Toward a better understanding of target distinctiveness in visual search: How color, shape, and texture information combine to guide search

Journal of Experimental Psychology: General, v. 155, (3), p. 839-875
Xu, Zoe Jing; Lleras, Alejandro; Buetti, Simona

Article 2

Evaluating the contribution of parallel processing of color and shape in a conjunction search task

Scientific Reports, v. 15, (1), article number 7760
Cui, Andrea Yaoyun; Buetti, Simona; Xu, Zoe Jing; Lleras, Alejandro

Quantifying the Relationship Between Search Efficiency and Perceptual Similarity in Color Space Across Different Efficient Search Tasks

Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance, v. 51, (7), p. 850-874
Lleras, Alejandro; Xu, Zoe Jing; Tan, Howard Jia He; Shao, Yujie; Buetti, Simona

Article 2

Skills and cautiousness predict performance in difficult search

Attention, Perception, and Psychophysics, v. 86, (6), p. 1897-1912
Xu, Zoe Jing; Buetti, Simona; Xia, Yan; Lleras, Alejandro

Top-down instructions influence the attentional weight on color and shape dimensions during bidimensional search

Scientific Reports, v. 14, (1), article number 31376
Xu, Zoe Jing; Lleras, Alejandro; Gong, Zixu Gavin; Buetti, Simona

Article 1

Incorporating the properties of peripheral vision into theories of visual search

Nature Reviews Psychology, v. 1, (10), p. 590-604
Lleras, Alejandro; Buetti, Simona; Xu, Zoe Jing

Article 2

Distractor–Distractor Interactions in Visual Search for Oriented Targets Explain the Increased Difficulty Observed in Nonlinearly Separable Conditions

Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance, v. 47, (9), p. 1274-1297
Xu, Zoe Jing; Lleras, Alejandro; Shao, Yujie; Buetti, Simona

Predicting how surface texture and shape combine in the human visual system to direct attention

Scientific Reports, v. 11, (1), article number 6170
Xu, Zoe Jing; Lleras, Alejandro; Buetti, Simona

Article 1

A target contrast signal theory of parallel processing in goal-directed search

Attention, Perception, and Psychophysics, v. 82, (2), p. 394-425
Lleras, Alejandro; Wang, Zhiyuan; Ng, Gavin Jun Peng; Ballew, Kirk; Xu, Jing; Buetti, Simona

Article 1

Predicting how color and shape combine in the human visual system to direct attention

Scientific Reports, v. 9, (1), article number 20258
Buetti, Simona; Xu, Jing; Lleras, Alejandro

2020 1

A target contrast signal theory of parallel processing in goal-directed search

Attention, Perception, and Psychophysics, v. 82, (2), p. 394-425
Lleras, Alejandro; Wang, Zhiyuan; Ng, Gavin Jun Peng; Ballew, Kirk; Xu, Jing; Buetti, Simona
Article

2019 1

Predicting how color and shape combine in the human visual system to direct attention

Scientific Reports, v. 9, (1), article number 20258
Buetti, Simona; Xu, Jing; Lleras, Alejandro
Article

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