Tom Williamson
@trwilliamson.bsky.social
brain linguist | working on: neurostimulation, language, gesture, embodied cognition, intraoperative language testing | UWE Bristol/Southmead Hospital & USC | former: Oxford, Cambridge, Lancaster
Over the recent months, I've had lots of fun presenting main findings from my PhD's first phase! I thought I'd share some highlights :)
1. Evidence of separate reps in the brain of British Sign Language and English in an awake craniotomy patient, confirming reviews of unimodal bilingual patients
1. Evidence of separate reps in the brain of British Sign Language and English in an awake craniotomy patient, confirming reviews of unimodal bilingual patients
September 10, 2025 at 4:08 PM
Over the recent months, I've had lots of fun presenting main findings from my PhD's first phase! I thought I'd share some highlights :)
1. Evidence of separate reps in the brain of British Sign Language and English in an awake craniotomy patient, confirming reviews of unimodal bilingual patients
1. Evidence of separate reps in the brain of British Sign Language and English in an awake craniotomy patient, confirming reviews of unimodal bilingual patients
Here in beautifully leafy (and compared to the UK, wonderfully town-planned) Nijmegen for the @isgs2025.bsky.social conference! Find myself particularly taken by the suburban architecture for reasons I cannot yet explain.
Excited for the event and to meet other researchers for the first time!
Excited for the event and to meet other researchers for the first time!
July 8, 2025 at 5:16 PM
Here in beautifully leafy (and compared to the UK, wonderfully town-planned) Nijmegen for the @isgs2025.bsky.social conference! Find myself particularly taken by the suburban architecture for reasons I cannot yet explain.
Excited for the event and to meet other researchers for the first time!
Excited for the event and to meet other researchers for the first time!
Delighted to see our paper in @cogscisociety.bsky.social!
We look at how individuals from different backgrounds/LLMs approach the interpretation of colour metaphors they know or ones we made up ('novel').
Blog: cognitivesciencesociety.org/color-metaph...
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
We look at how individuals from different backgrounds/LLMs approach the interpretation of colour metaphors they know or ones we made up ('novel').
Blog: cognitivesciencesociety.org/color-metaph...
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
Statistical or Embodied? Comparing Colorseeing, Colorblind, Painters, and Large Language Models in Their Processing of Color Metaphors
Can metaphorical reasoning involving embodied experience—such as color perception—be learned from the statistics of language alone? Recent work finds that colorblind individuals robustly understand a...
onlinelibrary.wiley.com
July 8, 2025 at 8:41 AM
Delighted to see our paper in @cogscisociety.bsky.social!
We look at how individuals from different backgrounds/LLMs approach the interpretation of colour metaphors they know or ones we made up ('novel').
Blog: cognitivesciencesociety.org/color-metaph...
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
We look at how individuals from different backgrounds/LLMs approach the interpretation of colour metaphors they know or ones we made up ('novel').
Blog: cognitivesciencesociety.org/color-metaph...
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
Excited to announce my special session @lagbling.bsky.social 2025 conference!
Title: Gesture and the Linguistic System.
Deadline: 14th April 2025
Papers should treat gesture with (formal) linguistic analysis to elucidate its systemic properties as a part of language
www.lagb.org.uk/lagb2025
Title: Gesture and the Linguistic System.
Deadline: 14th April 2025
Papers should treat gesture with (formal) linguistic analysis to elucidate its systemic properties as a part of language
www.lagb.org.uk/lagb2025
LAGB 2025 - University of Suffolk
www.lagb.org.uk
February 28, 2025 at 2:02 PM
Excited to announce my special session @lagbling.bsky.social 2025 conference!
Title: Gesture and the Linguistic System.
Deadline: 14th April 2025
Papers should treat gesture with (formal) linguistic analysis to elucidate its systemic properties as a part of language
www.lagb.org.uk/lagb2025
Title: Gesture and the Linguistic System.
Deadline: 14th April 2025
Papers should treat gesture with (formal) linguistic analysis to elucidate its systemic properties as a part of language
www.lagb.org.uk/lagb2025
Reposted by Tom Williamson
📣Applications open for two new members!
Our chair @GianlucaPorta5 and secretary @NevenaKlobucar will be soon leaving the committee 👋 and two new positions will be available!
If you are interested in joining us, apply here: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
Our chair @GianlucaPorta5 and secretary @NevenaKlobucar will be soon leaving the committee 👋 and two new positions will be available!
If you are interested in joining us, apply here: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
Application for Membership to the LAGB Postgraduate Student Committee (LAGBPSC)
The Linguistics Association of Great Britain Postgraduate Student Committee (LAGBPSC) is looking for UK-based postgraduate students to join the Committee. Priority will be given to applicants in their...
docs.google.com
January 16, 2025 at 9:23 AM
📣Applications open for two new members!
Our chair @GianlucaPorta5 and secretary @NevenaKlobucar will be soon leaving the committee 👋 and two new positions will be available!
If you are interested in joining us, apply here: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
Our chair @GianlucaPorta5 and secretary @NevenaKlobucar will be soon leaving the committee 👋 and two new positions will be available!
If you are interested in joining us, apply here: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
Being a confederate in a psychology/conversation experiment is *really* hard. Conversing with people pretending you're naive to the experiment, acting as if everything's new each time, keeping the paradigm running smoothly, not getting drawn into debating people's terrible takes! I could never!!
December 2, 2024 at 4:15 PM
Being a confederate in a psychology/conversation experiment is *really* hard. Conversing with people pretending you're naive to the experiment, acting as if everything's new each time, keeping the paradigm running smoothly, not getting drawn into debating people's terrible takes! I could never!!
Going from a purely academic to an academic-clinical position has posed personal challenges I never expected. Being confronted with a preference for pragmatism is very humbling for the conscientious perfectionism that academia culturally curates. Although perhaps this is just UG -> PhD anyway
November 27, 2024 at 9:36 PM
Going from a purely academic to an academic-clinical position has posed personal challenges I never expected. Being confronted with a preference for pragmatism is very humbling for the conscientious perfectionism that academia culturally curates. Although perhaps this is just UG -> PhD anyway
Really excited to be heading to Barcelona for the 7th Mapping/Neuropsychological Assistance Workshop 2024 at the University Hospital of Bellvitge this week, then on to Cardiff for the Brain Box NIBS workshop!
Super busy but can't think of a better way to learn these vital skills hands on!!
Super busy but can't think of a better way to learn these vital skills hands on!!
November 24, 2024 at 10:52 PM
Really excited to be heading to Barcelona for the 7th Mapping/Neuropsychological Assistance Workshop 2024 at the University Hospital of Bellvitge this week, then on to Cardiff for the Brain Box NIBS workshop!
Super busy but can't think of a better way to learn these vital skills hands on!!
Super busy but can't think of a better way to learn these vital skills hands on!!
Reposted by Tom Williamson
It was a pleasure to host Anna Marie Trester from the Linguistic Society of America for the first session of our Career Talks!
You can find the recording on YouTube 🍿
www.youtube.com/watch?v=eVcp...
📌Next talk is on the 12th of December!
You can find the recording on YouTube 🍿
www.youtube.com/watch?v=eVcp...
📌Next talk is on the 12th of December!
Fundamentals of Getting a Job as a Linguist - Careers Talk Series
YouTube video by LAGB Postgraduate Student Committee
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November 20, 2024 at 4:44 PM
It was a pleasure to host Anna Marie Trester from the Linguistic Society of America for the first session of our Career Talks!
You can find the recording on YouTube 🍿
www.youtube.com/watch?v=eVcp...
📌Next talk is on the 12th of December!
You can find the recording on YouTube 🍿
www.youtube.com/watch?v=eVcp...
📌Next talk is on the 12th of December!