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## Meet the editor

Dr. Xiaoming Jiang is a professor at the Institute of Linguistics, Shanghai International Studies University, China. He obtained a BS in Psychology from East China Normal University and a Ph.D. in Cognitive Neuroscience from Peking University. He served as a research fellow and a visiting professor at the School of Communication Sciences and Disorders, McGill University, Canada. His research utilizes experimental methodologies to

uncover social and interpersonal aspects of human communicative behaviors in multilingual and multicultural contexts. While serving as a guest associate editor for *Frontiers in Psychology* and *Frontiers in Communication*, Dr. Jiang published more than forty peer-reviewed articles as lead author in high-impact journals such as *NeuroImage*, *Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance*, and *Speech Communication*.

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