康鑫，重庆大学外国语学院特聘教授、博士生导师，重庆市人文社会科学重点研究基地“语言认知及语言应用研究基地”研究员。康鑫教授本科毕业于中南大学，研究生毕业于广东外语外贸大学，博士毕业于英国约克大学心理学系。曾任职于香港中文大学大脑与认知研究所，是重庆市高层次人才、沙坪坝区“巾帼创新工作室”成员、山东泰山学者青年专家团队成员。主要从事语言学习和语言加工的认知神经生物机制研究，研究对象为以英语或声调语言为母语的儿童及成人以及孤独症人群。主持国家社会科学基金、大学教育资助委员会（中国香港）协作研究基金、重庆市自然科学基金等多项纵向科研项目，并获得香港中文大学等提供的横向课题经费。其研究成果发表于npj Science of Learning等高影响力的国际学术期刊。其课题组“语言科学与语言障碍实验室”(Laboratory for Language Sciences and Disorders)（微信公众号:CQU语言科学与障碍）。长期招募具备团队合作精神并有志于从事心理学-语言学交叉学科研究的同学攻读硕士、博士或从事科研助理工作。
工作邮箱：xin.kang at cqu.edu.cn
学术主页：https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Xin-Kang-10
ORCID：https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1126-5771
1.研究方向
语言（母语及多语）发展、加工、进化及孤独症人群的语言交际
2.主讲课程及指导学生
·本科生：保送南京大学等知名高校；获得国市创优秀结题；互联网+铜奖等
·硕博研究生：获批重庆市研究生科研项目；一作发表SSCI一区期刊等
3.学术及社会兼职
编委：SCEI来源期刊Scientific Data（JCR一区期刊）；审稿人：SCIE/SSCI来源期刊Developmental Science, Language Cognition and Neuroscience, Journal of Alzheimer's Disease等以及CSSCI来源期刊《现代外语》等；常务理事：重庆市外文协会。
4.主持项目：
1）唐仲英基金者教育支持者项目（2025-2028）
“面向K12教师和家长的孤独症前沿科普教育交流平台项目”
2）大学教育资助委员会协作研究基金（中国香港）（2024-2027）（共同主持）
“A “Predictive Personalization Approach to Enhance Foreign Language Learning and Teaching”
3）国家社会科学基金青年项目（2022-2025）
“孤独症谱系障碍儿童在语言加工中的心理表征实验研究”
4）重庆市自然科学基金面上项目（2022-2025）
“儿童语言加工中心理表征的预测性编码的认知神经机制研究”
5）重庆市教委人文社科重点项目（2022-2024）
“以汉语为母语的孤独症谱系障碍患者在语篇产出中的语言特征及视觉注意力机制研究”
5.近五年部分科研成果（*通讯作者；#共同一作；$指导学生）
1.Qi, J.$, Peng, J., &Kang, X.*(2025). Predictive Processing Among Individuals with Autism Spectrum Disorder During Online Language Comprehension: A Preliminary Systematic Review.Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders, 1–14. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10803-024-06704-9
2.Fu, C., Zhang, J.$, &Kang, X.*(2024). True or false? Linguistic and demographic factors influence veracity judgment of COVID-19 rumors.Humanities and Social Sciences Communications,11(1), 1–7.https://doi.org/10.1057/s41599-024-02935-4
3.Kang, X.*,Matthews, S., Yip, V., Wong, P. C. M.* (2023). A large-scale repository of spoken narratives in French, German, and Spanish from Cantonese-speaking learners.Scientific Data.https://doi.org/10.1038/s41597-023-02090-6
4.Nayar, K.#,Kang, X.#,Winston, M., Wong, P., & Losh, M.* (2023). A cross-cultural study of visual attention in autism spectrum disorder.Child Neuropsychology: A Journal on Normal and Abnormal Development in Childhood and Adolescence, 1–32.https://doi.org/10.1080/09297049.2022.2094904
5.Kang, X.*,& Ge, H.* (2022). Tracking object-state representations during real-time language comprehension by native and non-native speakers of English.Frontiers in Psychology,13.https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2022.819243
6.Wong, P. C. M.*,Kang, X.*,So, H.-C., & Choy, K. W. (2022). Contributions of common genetic variants to specific languages and to when a language is learned.Scientific Reports,12(1), 580.https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-021-04163-1
7.Zhao, JY., Fu, C.,Kang, X.(2022). Content Characteristics Predict the Putative Authenticity of COVID-19 Rumors.Frontiers in Public Health.https://doi.org/10.3389/fpubh.2022.920103
8.Lau, J. C. Y., Patel, S.,Kang, X.,Nayar, K., Martin, G. E., Choy, J., Wong, P. C. M., & Losh, M. (2022). Cross-linguistic patterns of speech prosodic differences in autism: A machine learning study.PloS One,17(6), e0269637.https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0269637
9.Kang, X.,Matthews, S., Yip, V., Wong, P. C. M.* (2021). Language and Non-Language Factors in Foreign Language Learning: Evidence for the Learning Condition Hypothesis.npj Science of Learning.https://doi.org/10.1038/s41539-021-00104-9
10.Nayar, K.,Kang, X.,Xing, J., Gordon, P. C., Wong, P. C. M., & Losh, M. (2021). A cross-cultural study showing deficits in gaze-language coordination during rapid automatized naming among individuals with ASD.Scientific Reports,11(1), 1–13.https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-021-91911-y
11.Ge, H., Mulders, I.,Kang, X.,Chen, A., & Yip, V. (2021). Processing focus in native and non-native speakers of English: an eye-tracking study in the visual world paradigm.Applied Psycholinguistics,42(4), 1057–1088.https://doi.org/10.1017/S0142716421000230
12.Wong, P. C. M.*,Kang, X.,Wong, K. H. Y., So, H.-C., Choy, K. W., & Geng, X. (2020). ASPM-lexical tone association in speakers of a tone language: Direct evidence for the genetic-biasing hypothesis of language evolution.Science Advances,6(22), eaba5090.https://doi.org/10.1126/sciadv.aba5090
13.Geng, X.*,Kang, X.*,& Wong, P. C. M. (2020). Autism spectrum disorder risk prediction: A systematic review of behavioral and neural investigations.Progress in Molecular Biology and Translational Science(Vol. 173, pp. 91–137). Academic Press.https://doi.org/10.1016/bs.pmbts.2020.04.015
14.Kang, X.*,Joergensen, G. H., & Altmann, G. T. M. (2020). The activation of object-state representations during online language comprehension.Acta Psychologica, 210, 103162.https://doi.org/10.1016/j.actpsy.2020.103162
15.Kang, X*.,Eerland, A., Joergensen, G., Zwaan, R., Altmann, G.T.M. (2019). The Influence of state change on object representations in language comprehension.Memory & Cognition,48, 390 – 399.https://doi.org/10.3758/s13421-019-00977-7
16.Zhang, J. R.$, &Kang, X.* (2023). Understanding Chadian Mei in Mandarin Chinese Sentence Processing.The 29th Annual Conference of the International Association of Chinese Linguistics.May 27-29, 2023, Macau University of Science and Technology, Macau, China.
17.Zhao, Q. Y$& Kang, X.*(2023).The influence of musical training on the lexical-tonal perception and production of Japanese.Musical Mind Workshop. July 27-28, 2023, University of Konstanz, Germany.
18.Qi, J. L., Peng, J., &Kang, X.*(2022). Individuals with autism spectrum disorder can predict upcoming information in language processing. National Symposium on Clinical Linguistics. December 16, 2022, Virtual.
19.Kang, X.*& Ge, H.Y.(2021). Non-native English speakers are slower in predicting object-state during real-time language comprehension than native speakers.Psychonomic Society 62th Annual Meeting.Nov. 4-7, New Orleans, Louisiana, USA.
20.Kang, X.,Chan, P.H.Y., Lam, H.S., Wong, P.C.M.* (2021). Influence of prenatal and postnatal fish consumption on the efficiency of response inhibition in adolescence: Preliminary evidence from a 15-year follow-up study in Hong Kong.ABC’21 Conference: Language and Cognition in Typical and Atypical Development,Dec. 2 – 4, Hong Kong, SAR. China.
21.Hirai, W.H.#,Kang, X.#,Lau, J.C.Y., Choy, J.L.H., Lai, E.C.L., Wong, P.C.M.* (2021). Prosody Production Difficulties in Tone Language Speakers with Autism Spectrum Disorder.American Speech-Language-Hearing Association (ASHA) Convention. Nov. 18-20, Washington D.C. USA.
