Xingyi Zhang

All Publications

• LoveSims: Exploring 'What-If' Scenarios for Relationship Insights and Compatibility Larrea, M., Zhang, X., Zhu, X., ACM ASSOC COMPUTING MACHINERY. 2025

  View details for DOI 10.1145/3706599.3720011

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• Semantic Priming in Word Clouds Zhang, X., Jasmer, J., Masadde, E., Alexander, E., IEEE COMPUTER SOC IEEE COMPUTER SOC. 2025: 386-390

  View details for DOI 10.1109/VIS60296.2025.00083

  View details for Web of Science ID 001687149800078

• Graphs with many hamiltonian paths INVOLVE, A JOURNAL OF MATHEMATICS Carlson, E., Fletcher, W., Montee, M., Nguyen, C., Renders, J., Zhang, X. 2025; 18 (4)

  View details for DOI 10.2140/involve.2025.18.613

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• The effects of temporal cues, point-light displays, and faces on speech identification and listening effort PLOS ONE Sewell, K., Brown, V. A., Farwell, G., Rogers, M., Zhang, X., Strand, J. F. 2023; 18 (11): e0290826

  Abstract

  Among the most robust findings in speech research is that the presence of a talking face improves the intelligibility of spoken language. Talking faces supplement the auditory signal by providing fine phonetic cues based on the placement of the articulators, as well as temporal cues to when speech is occurring. In this study, we varied the amount of information contained in the visual signal, ranging from temporal information alone to a natural talking face. Participants were presented with spoken sentences in energetic or informational masking in four different visual conditions: audio-only, a modulating circle providing temporal cues to salient features of the speech, a digitally rendered point-light display showing lip movement, and a natural talking face. We assessed both sentence identification accuracy and self-reported listening effort. Audiovisual benefit for intelligibility was observed for the natural face in both informational and energetic masking, but the digitally rendered point-light display only provided benefit in energetic masking. Intelligibility for speech accompanied by the modulating circle did not differ from the audio-only conditions in either masker type. Thus, the temporal cues used here were insufficient to improve speech intelligibility in noise, but some types of digital point-light displays may contain enough phonetic detail to produce modest improvements in speech identification in noise.

  View details for DOI 10.1371/journal.pone.0290826

  View details for Web of Science ID 001142779200183

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• Development of information integration in the visual working memory of preschoolers CHILD DEVELOPMENT Guo, D., Wang, Y., Liao, Y., Li, J., Zhang, X., Gao, Z., Shen, M., He, J. 2022; 93 (6): 1793-1803

  Abstract

  Visual working memory (WM) plays a pivotal role in integrating fragments into meaningful units, but no study has addressed how visual WM integration takes place in children. The current study examined whether WM integration emerges once preschoolers master Gestalt cue and can retain two representations in WM (automatic integration hypothesis), or still needs time to mature (maturation-of-integration hypothesis). Four experiments (N = 168, 81 females, 4- to 6-year-olds, Chinese, in Hangzhou, China, from 2016.10 to 2021.11) were conducted. Although 4-year-olds can retain two objects in WM and benefit from Gestalt cues in simultaneous display (Cohen's ds >1.00), they failed when memory arrays were presented sequentially. Meanwhile, 5- and 6-year-olds consistently demonstrated WM integration ability (all Cohen's ds >0.69), supporting the maturation-of-integration hypothesis.

  View details for DOI 10.1111/cdev.13820

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