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Elliot Murphy @elliot-murphy.bsky.social · 07/08/2026

A useful resource! A systematic-review database of neurostimulation evidence for the neurobiology of language. www.language-elements.org

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Tom Williamson @trwilliamson.bsky.social · 23/04/2026

This week at ELGGN in Montpellier I'm demoing www.language-elements.org, an AI tool to characterise brain regions by linguistic process, redefine terms like 'semantics', suggest intraop tasks for awake craniotomies. Synthesises ~200 papers/~600 processes/~6k participants. Sign up and playtest!

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Language Elements

A systematic-review database of neurostimulation evidence for the neurobiology of language.

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Tom Williamson @trwilliamson.bsky.social · 17/03/2026

Happy to share another paper, the second from my PhD! This time a preprint. We find a really interesting relationship between metaphoric gesturing, lexical retrieval errors, and healthy ageing. This occurred during occlusion of gestures, contra 'pragmatic' accounts papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....

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Gesturing During Speech Errors, Especially in Healthy Ageing: A Facilitation qua Reparation Account

Gestures have often been considered as communicative: adding to (e.g., with iconicity) or reinforcing (i.e., by being co-speech) linguistic content. Another fun

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Tom Williamson @trwilliamson.bsky.social · 11/03/2026

Delighted to share the first output of my PhD! Interactive gestures - ones we use to manage discourse and interact with interlocutors (v. understudied but highly prevalent) - are used even when the hands can't be seen, esp. during complex conversations! onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

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Variation in Interactive Gestures by Visual Occlusion and Topic Complexity: Evidence for a Subconscious Theory of Gesture

Gestures are often categorized into types: iconics, metaphorics, and pantomimes (having representational relationships with spoken semantics), deictics (i.e., pointing), emblems (having their own con...

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Tom Williamson @trwilliamson.bsky.social · 10/09/2025

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

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Tom Williamson @trwilliamson.bsky.social · 08/07/2025

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!

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Tom Williamson @trwilliamson.bsky.social · 28/02/2025

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

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LAGB 2025 - University of Suffolk

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Tom Williamson @trwilliamson.bsky.social · 02/12/2024

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!!

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Tom Williamson @trwilliamson.bsky.social · 27/11/2024

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

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Tom Williamson @trwilliamson.bsky.social · 24/11/2024

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!!

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LAGB Postgraduate Student Committee @lagbpsc.bsky.social · 20/11/2024

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!

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Fundamentals of Getting a Job as a Linguist - Careers Talk Series

YouTube video by LAGB Postgraduate Student Committee

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