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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

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

Great crowd, beautiful city, delicious pastries!

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

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)

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

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

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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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