Journal articles

1. Liu, X.Y., Yan, Z., Chen, Y., Kang, X.* (under review), Effects of mood induction on the processing of emotionally neutral words in a non-native language

2. Zhao, Q.R., Jin. X., Zhou, J., & Kang, X.* (under review). Influence of musical experience on language learners’ discrimination of Japanese pitch accent: Evidence from native speakers of Mandarin Chinese

3. 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

4. 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

5. 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 

6. Zhao, J., Fu, C., & Kang, X. (2022). Content characteristics predict the putative authenticity of COVID-19 rumors. Frontiers in Public Health, 10. https://doi.org/10.3389/fpubh.2022.920103 

7. Nayar, K.#, Kang, X.#, Winston, M., Wong, P. C. M., Losh. M. (2022). A cross-cultural study of visual attention in autism spectrum disorder. Child Neuropsychology.  10.1080/09297049.2022.2094904

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.

9. 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

10. 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

11. Kang, X., Matthews, S., Yip, V., & Wong, P. C. M. (2021). Language and nonlanguage factors in foreign language learning: evidence for the learning condition hypothesis. npj Science of Learning, 6(1), 1–13. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41539-021-00104-9 

12. 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  

13. 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. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0142716421000230 

14. Kang, X.*, Joergensen, G., Altmann, G.T.M. (2020). The activation of object-state representations during online language comprehension. Acta Psychologica https://doi.org/10.1016/j.actpsy.2020.103162 

15. Geng, X*., Kang, X*., Wong, PCM. (2020).  Autism spectrum disorder risk prediction: A systematic review of behavioral and neural investigations. Progress in Molecular Biology and Translational Science. doi.org/10.1016/bs.pmbts.2020.04.015.

16. Wong, P.C.M*., Kang, X., Wong, H.Y.K., 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. 10.1126/sciadv.aba5090. Reported by [Scientific American], [Forbes], [Phys.org]

17. Lau, J. C. Y., To, C. K. S., Kwan, J. S. K., Kang, X., Losh, M., & Wong, P.C.M. (2020). Lifelong Tone Language Experience does not Eliminate Deficits in Neural Encoding of Pitch in Autism Spectrum Disorder. Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10803-020-04796-7

18. 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 DOI: 10.3758/s13421-019-00977-7.

19. Kang, X*. (2010). On the L2 acquisition of English causative alternation:The role of verb semantics and entrenchment. Foreign Language Teaching and Research, 6, 431 -437.

Conference presentations & posters: 

1.  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

2. Kang, X.*,  & Ge. H.. (2021). Non-native English speakers are slower in predicting object-state during real-time language comprehension than native speakers. Annual Meeting of Psychonomic Society, November, 2021.

3. Hirai, W.H.#, Kang, X.# (co-first author). (2021). Lau, J.C.Y., Choy, J.L.H., Lai, E.C.L., Wong, P.C.M (submitted). Prosody Production Difficulties in Tone Language Speakers with Autism Spectrum Disorder. ASHA 2021 Convention, November 15-22, 2021.

4. Xing, J., Nayar, K., Landau, E., Kang, X. Lau, JCY., Martin, GE., Wong, PCM., & Losh, M. (2021). Narrative and visual attention in autism spectrum disorder: A cross-cultural perspective. Poster presented at the INASR Annual Meeting. 

5. Lau, J.C.Y., Kang, X., To, C.K.S., Losh, M., Wong, P.C.M. (2019). Impaired Neural Pitch Encoding Associated with Autism Spectrum Disorders in Cantonese-speaking Children. Neuroscience 2019, the 49th annual gathering of the Society for Neuroscience. Chicago, IL,  Oct. 19-23 2019 

6. Nayar, K., Kang, X., Wong, PCM., & Losh, M. (2019). Visual Attention during Narration in Autism: A Cross-Cultural Study. INSAR Annual Meeting, Québec, Canada, May 1 - 4, 2019.

7. Kang, X., Wong, HYK., & Wong, PCM (2017). Do subject-internal factors predict third language acquisition? Preliminary evidence from a corpus of Cantonese learners of modern languages. Talk presented at the 4th Learner Corpus Research Conference, Bolzano/Bozen, Italy. October 5 -7 , 2017.

8. Kang, X., Wang, T. (2017). Tracking object-state representations in language comprehension: Do cognitive abilities matter?. Poster presented at the 23rd AMLaP Conference – Architectures and Mechanisms of Language Processing, Lancaster, UK. September 7-9, 2017.

9. Ge, H., Kang, X., Mai, Z. & Yip, V. (2017) How Cantonese-speaking adults use prosody to interpret focus in L2 English: Evidence from eye movement in the visual world paradigm. Poster presented at the 11th International Symposium on Bilingualism, University of Limerick, Ireland.

10. Ge, H., Kang, X., Mai, Z., Lam, H., Matthews, S. & Yip, V. (2017) Association of prosodic focal information with only in L1 and L2: Evidence from eye movement in the visual world paradigm. Paper presented at the Experimental Psycholinguistics Conference , Menorca, Spain. 26-28 June 2017

11. Lee, L.C., Kang, X. & Mai, Z. (2016). Processing Cantonese classifiers by Mandarin speakers: an eye-tracking study. Paper presented at the Linguistic Society of Hong Kong Annual Research Forum 2016. December 3. Hong Kong Education University. Hong Kong.

12. Ekves, Z., Joergensen, G.H., Kang, X., Altmann, G. T. M. (2016). Episodic and semantic influence in object instantiation. Poster presented at the 29th CUNY conference on Human Sentence Processing, Florida, USA.

13. Kang, X., Joergensen, G. H., Altmann, G. T. M. (2015). Event-related brain potentials reflect processing of object-state representations in language comprehension. Poster presented at the Neurobiology of Language, Chicago, USA.

14. Kang, X., Joergensen, G. H., Altmann, G. T. M. (2014). Representing conflicting states of a single object requires identity binding: Evidence from the visual world paradigm. Talk given at the Experimental Psychology Society Meeting, Kent, UK.

15. Kang, X., Joergensen, G. H., Altmann, G. T. M. (2014). Representing multiple instantiations of an object: Effects of visual and linguistic context on real-time event processing. Poster presented at The 27th Annual CUNY Conference on Human Sentence Processing, Ohio, USA

16. Kang, X., Joergensen, G. H., Altmann, G. T. M. (2013). From altered states to altered eye movements: Object state-change in the visual world. Poster presented at The 19th annual Conference on Architectures and Mechanisms for Language Processing, Marseille, France.

17. Kang, X. (2010). L2 acquisition of English causative alternation by advanced learners of English in China. Proceedings of the 4th International Symposium on SLA in China, Suzhou, China, April 23-25, 2010.