Zhuanghua Shi

Professor

Attention & context Bayesian inference Time perception

Prof. Dr. Zhuanghua Shi leads the MSense lab at the Chair of Neuro-Cognitive Psychology, LMU Munich. His research investigates how the brain makes sense of time, space, and uncertainty, how contextual regularities and prior expectations shape attention, and how Bayesian inference underlies perceptual decision-making. The lab combines psychophysics, EEG, fMRI, and computational modeling to study these questions. He is also affiliated with the Graduate School of Systemic
Neurosciences (GSN) and the Neuroimaging Core Unit Munich (NICUM).

Research interests

Time Perception, Multiplsensory Perception, Context Guidance and Suppression, Visual Attention,

Publications

2026

Stage-specific priming of pop-out effects in the target-feature memory encoding and retrieval. Acta Psychologica

Duration reproduction under memory pressure: Modeling the roles of visual memory set size in duration encoding and reproduction. Cognition

Arousal-Driven Serial Dependence: The role of Internal States in Temporal Judgments bioRxiv

Accuracy Feedback and Delay Adaptation Effects in Visual and Tactile Duration Reproduction bioRxiv

2025

Distinct hippocampus codes for contextual cueing: learning contexts and their predictive associations with targets in visual search NeuroImage

Are prediction error modifications domain specific in autism but domain general in ADHD? Imaging neuroscience

Distractors sharing critical target features summon, but do not engage, attention: An EEG study ☆. Cortex; a journal devoted to the study of the nervous system and behavior

Response-driven Serial Dependence: When Response Mode Consistency Matters More than Shared Memory Encoding bioRxiv

Arousal-Driven Serial Dependence: Internal States Modulate Perceived Duration bioRxiv

Saccade-induced temporal distortion: opposing effects of time expansion and compression Psychological Research 2 citations

Context-based guidance versus context suppression in contextual learning: Role of un-/certainty in the target-context relations in visual search. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance 3 citations

Predictive Processing in Autism Spectrum Disorder: The Atypical Iterative Prior Updating Account Biological Psychiatry Global Open Science 4 citations

2024

Influence of cross-trial distractor volatility on statistical learning of spatial distractor suppression Visual Cognition 2 citations

The impact of task measurements on sequential dependence: a comparison between temporal reproduction and discrimination tasks Psychological Research 5 citations

Dynamic suppression of likely distractor locations: Task-critical modulation Visual Cognition 4 citations

Opposing Sequential Biases in Direction and Time Reproduction: Influences of Task Relevance and Working Memory bioRxiv 3 citations

Contextual facilitation: Separable roles of contextual guidance and context suppression in visual search Psychonomic Bulletin & Review 4 citations

When experience with scenes foils attentional orienting: ERP evidence against flexible target-context mapping in visual search. Cortex; a journal devoted to the study of the nervous system and behavior 5 citations

How to measure functional connectivity using resting-state fMRI? A comprehensive empirical exploration of different connectivity metrics bioRxiv 4 citations

Distractor-response binding influences visual search bioRxiv 2 citations

High task demand in dual-target paradigm redirects experimentally increased anxiety to uphold goal-directed attention Perception 2 citations

2023

Learning regular cross-trial shifts of the target location in serial search involves awareness – an eye-tracking study bioRxiv 2 citations

A Bayesian observer model reveals a prior for natural daylights in hue perception bioRxiv 3 citations

The saccade-induced temporal attentional gradient: Duration compression of the post-saccadic second event bioRxiv

Reference induces biases in late visual processing Scientific Reports 3 citations

Perceptual learning across saccades: Feature but not location specific Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America 4 citations

Task-irrelevant valence-preferred colors boost visual search for a singleton-shape target Psychological Research 5 citations

Overestimation in time reproduction: Influences of accuracy feedback and attentional sharing bioRxiv 1 citations

Little engagement of attention by salient distractors defined in a different dimension or modality to the visual search target. Psychophysiology 7 citations

Influences of temporal order in temporal reproduction Psychonomic Bulletin & Review 3 citations

Long-term (statistically learnt) and short-term (inter-trial) distractor-location effects arise at different pre- and post-selective processing stages. Psychophysiology 7 citations

Asymmetric learning of dynamic spatial regularities in visual search: Robust facilitation of predictable target locations, fragile suppression of distractor locations. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance 6 citations

Electrophysiological signatures of temporal context in the bisection task bioRxiv 9 citations

Statistical context learning in tactile search: Crossmodally redundant, visuo-tactile contexts fail to enhance contextual cueing Frontiers in Cognition

Hierarchy of Intra- and Cross-modal Redundancy Gains in Visuo-tactile Search: Evidence from the Posterior Contralateral Negativity Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience 4 citations

2022

Temporal decision making: it is all about context Learning & Behavior 4 citations

Beyond Scalar Timing Theory: Integrating Neural Oscillators with Computational Accessibility in Memory Timing & Time Perception 4 citations

Oscillation/Coincidence-Detection Models of Reward-Related Timing in Corticostriatal Circuits Timing & Time Perception 4 citations

Asymmetric learning of dynamic spatial regularities in visual search: facilitation of anticipated target locations, no suppression of predictable distractor locations bioRxiv 2 citations

Individual beliefs about temporal continuity explain variation of perceptual biases Scientific Reports 38 citations

Multisensory Rather than Unisensory Representations Contribute to Statistical Context Learning in Tactile Search Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience 2 citations

Learning to suppress likely distractor locations in visual search is driven by the local distractor frequency bioRxiv 14 citations

Contextual cueing in co-active visual search: Joint action allows acquisition of task-irrelevant context Attention, Perception, & Psychophysics 13 citations

Duration reproduction under memory pressure: Modeling the roles of visual memory load in duration encoding and reproduction bioRxiv 2 citations

Cross-modal contextual memory guides selective attention in visual-search tasks. Psychophysiology 6 citations

Beyond Prior and Volatility: The Distinct Iterative Updating Account of ASD bioRxiv 4 citations

Predictive coding in ASD: reduced adaptability of priors to 1 environmental changes 1 citations

Predictive coding in ASD: reduced adaptability of priors to 1 environmental changes

2021

Phrase Depicting Immoral Behavior Dilates Its Subjective Time Judgment Frontiers in Psychology 5 citations

Inter-trial effects in priming of pop-out: Comparison of computational updating models PLoS Comput. Biol. 11 citations

V5/MT+ modulates spatio-temporal integration differently across and within hemifields: causal evidence from TMS. Neuropsychologia 2 citations

Individual beliefs about temporal continuity explain variation of perceptual biases bioRxiv 2 citations

The origin of Vierordt's law: The experimental protocol matters. PsyCh Journal 45 citations

Perceiving Tempo in Incongruent Audiovisual Presentations of Human Motion: Evidence for a Visual Driving Effect Timing & Time Perception 6 citations

Multisensory visuo-tactile context learning enhances the guidance of unisensory visual search Scientific Reports 14 citations

Statistical learning of frequent distractor locations in visual search involves regional signal suppression in early visual cortex bioRxiv 27 citations

Variation in the "coefficient of variation": Rethinking the violation of the scalar property in time-duration judgments. Acta Psychologica 23 citations

When visual distractors predict tactile search: The temporal profile of cross-modal spatial learning. Journal of Experimental Psychology. Learning, Memory and Cognition 5 citations

Association of smartphone use with depression, anxiety, stress, sleep quality, and internet addiction. Empirical evidence from a smartphone application 124 citations

2020

Acquisition and Use of ‘Priors’ in Autism: Typical in Deciding Where to Look, Atypical in Deciding What Is There Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders 19 citations

Temporal bisection is influenced by ensemble statistics of the stimulus set Attention, Perception, & Psychophysics 14 citations

Influences of luminance contrast and ambient lighting on visual context learning and retrieval Attention, Perception, & Psychophysics 9 citations

Logarithmic encoding of ensemble time intervals Scientific Reports 14 citations

2019

Crossmodal learning of target-context associations: When would tactile context predict visual search? Attention, Perception, & Psychophysics

Crossmodal learning of target-context associations: When would tactile context predict visual search? Attention, perception & psychophysics 7 citations

Probability cueing of singleton-distractor regions in visual search: the locus of spatial distractor suppression is determined by colour swapping Visual Cognition 34 citations

To quit or not to quit in dynamic search Attention, Perception, & Psychophysics 6 citations

Probability cueing of singleton-distractor locations in visual search: Priority-map- versus dimension-based inhibition? Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance 42 citations

Central Tendency as Consequence of Experimental Protocol 2019 Conference on Cognitive Computational Neuroscience 6 citations

2018

Probability cueing of singleton-distractor locations in visual search: priority-map‐ or dimension-based inhibition? bioRxiv 13 citations

150 years of research on Vierordt’s law - Fechner’s fault? bioRxiv 11 citations

What you see depends on what you hear: temporal averaging and crossmodal integration bioRxiv 22 citations

Inter-trial effects in visual pop-out search: Factorial comparison of Bayesian updating models bioRxiv 12 citations

2017

Contextual Cueing of Tactile Search Is Coded in an Anatomical Reference Frame Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance 17 citations

Duration compression induced by visual and phonological repetition of Chinese characters Attention, perception & psychophysics 1 citations

Duration compression induced by visual and phonological repetition of Chinese characters Attention, Perception, & Psychophysics

Contextual cueing in 3D visual search depends on representations in planar-, not depth-defined space. Journal of Vision 17 citations

Title Extended visual simultaneity thresholds in patients withschizophrenia

Title The effects of subthreshold synchrony on the perception ofsimultaneity

Title A moment to reflect upon perceptual synchrony

2016

Bayesian Optimization of Interval Timing and Biases in Temporal Memory as a Function of Temporal Context, Feedback, and Dopamine Levels in Young, Aged and Parkinson’s Disease Patients 29 citations

From Foreground to Background: How Task-Neutral Context Influences Contextual Cueing of Visual Search Frontiers in Psychology 14 citations

Predictive coding of multisensory timing. Current Opinion in Behavioral Sciences 72 citations

Predictive Communication Quality Control in Haptic Teleoperation With Time Delay and Packet Loss IEEE Transactions on Human-Machine Systems 34 citations

2015

Wearing weighted backpack dilates subjective visual duration: the role of functional linkage between weight experience and visual timing Frontiers in Psychology 3 citations

Watching a real moving object expands tactile duration: The role of task-irrelevant action context for subjective time Attention, perception & psychophysics 14 citations

Watching a real moving object expands tactile duration: The role of task-irrelevant action context for subjective time Attention, Perception, & Psychophysics

Invariant spatial context is learned but not retrieved in gaze-contingent tunnel-view search. Journal of Experimental Psychology. Learning, Memory and Cognition 39 citations

Contextual cueing: implicit memory of tactile context facilitates tactile search Attention, Perception, & Psychophysics 17 citations

Multisensory Perception And Action: Psychophysics, Neural Mechanisms, And Applications

2013

Multisensory perception and action: development, decision-making, and neural mechanisms Frontiers in Integrative Neuroscience 16 citations

Concurrent emotional pictures modulate temporal order judgments of spatially separated audio-tactile stimuli. Brain Research 4 citations

Memory under pressure: secondary-task effects on contextual cueing of visual search. Journal of Vision 56 citations

Bayesian optimization of time perception. Trends in Cognitive Sciences 273 citations

Reducing Bias in Auditory Duration Reproduction by Integrating the Reproduced Signal PLoS ONE 43 citations

Transfer of contextual cueing in full-icon display remapping. Journal of Vision 19 citations

2012

Duration reproduction with sensory feedback delay: differential involvement of perception and action time Frontiers in Integrative Neuroscience 16 citations

Motion Extrapolation in the Central Fovea PLoS ONE 19 citations

Non-spatial sounds regulate eye movements and enhance visual search. Journal of Vision 47 citations

Frontiers: Modulation of tactile duration judgments by emotional pictures 44 citations

2011

Interaction of Perceptual Grouping and Crossmodal Temporal Capture in Tactile Apparent-Motion PLoS ONE 13 citations

2010

Influences of intra- and crossmodal grouping on visual and tactile Ternus apparent motion. Brain Research 18 citations

Perception of Delay in Haptic Telepresence Systems PRESENCE: Teleoperators and Virtual Environments 39 citations

The Influence of Different Haptic Environments on Time Delay Discrimination in Force Feedback EuroHaptics 9 citations

Contextual cueing in multiconjunction visual search is dependent on color- and configuration-based intertrial contingencies. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance 73 citations

Auditory temporal modulation of the visual Ternus effect: the influence of time interval Experimental Brain Research 54 citations

High-fidelity telepresence and teleaction IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation

Temporal Perception of Visual-Haptic Events in Multimodal Telepresence System 1 citations

Effects of Packet Loss and Latency on the Temporal Discrimination of Visual-Haptic Events IEEE Transactions on Haptics 53 citations

2008

Motion-induced positional biases in the flash-lag configuration Cognitive Neuropsychology 18 citations

Behavioral significance of motion direction causes anisotropic flash-lag, flash-drag, flash-repulsion, and movement-mislocalization effects. Journal of Vision 25 citations

Influence of visuomotor action on visual-haptic simultaneous perception: A psychophysical study Symposium on Haptic Interfaces for Virtual Environment and Teleoperator Systems 39 citations

THE ROLE OF SYNCHRONIZATION IN PERCEPTION-ACTION

2007

The effects of subthreshold synchrony on the perception of simultaneity Psychological Research 46 citations

Oscillatory priming and form complexity Perception & Psychophysics 5 citations

2006

A Moment to Reflect upon Perceptual Synchrony Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience 25 citations

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Ensemble perception in the time domain: evidence in favor of logarithmic encoding of time intervals 2 citations

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Posts

Talk at MPI Tübingen: One Process, Two Biases

Your phone steals time twice

Duration Reproduction Under Editorial Pressure

Distinct hippocampus codes for contextual cueing

LMU-ChaN Workshop 2025: A Celebration of International Collaboration

Domain-specific vs domain-general prediction errors

How Distractors Summon but Do Not Engage Attention

Large-Scale Benchmarking Reveals Optimal Metrics for Measuring Functional Connectivity in Aging

Distinct Neural Mechanisms of Contextual Guidance and Suppression

How does saccade distort the time we experience?