Tom Williamson
trwilliamson.bsky.social
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
6. Developed a typology of interactive gestures: two types (acknowledging and transferring) and many subtypes
7. Found evidence that gesture handshape kinematics have organisational properties over gesture phrases akin to natural language syntax (e.g. non-adjacent dependency)
September 10, 2025 at 4:08 PM
2. Made world's largest (semi-)naturalistic gesture corpus
3. Interactive gestures sig. fall when you can't see interlocutor torso
4. Specific gestures sig. co-occur with specific errors (e.g. metaphoric with anomia)
5. Gesturer profiles-EFA suggests ppl use representational or conversational types
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
September 10, 2025 at 4:08 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!
July 8, 2025 at 5:16 PM