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)
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
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)
7. Found evidence that gesture handshape kinematics have organisational properties over gesture phrases akin to natural language syntax (e.g. non-adjacent dependency)
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
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
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
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
Immediately purchased. Love it!
March 25, 2025 at 4:45 PM
Immediately purchased. Love it!
You're so bloody smart
March 18, 2025 at 9:16 AM
You're so bloody smart
For sure! Perhaps I can share the data to help train the model when I'm done!
December 19, 2024 at 3:03 PM
For sure! Perhaps I can share the data to help train the model when I'm done!
This is super clever and exciting work, really impressive! Though, also very timely as I've nearly finished manually coding ~50 participants' gestures from 30-minute naturalistic conversations in ELAN...!!
December 19, 2024 at 2:02 PM
This is super clever and exciting work, really impressive! Though, also very timely as I've nearly finished manually coding ~50 participants' gestures from 30-minute naturalistic conversations in ELAN...!!
So I'm continually impressed with my research assistant, they did an incredible job. Really affirms to me the importance of listing your research assistants as co-authors - in these contexts, I can't argue strongly enough for it.
December 2, 2024 at 4:15 PM
So I'm continually impressed with my research assistant, they did an incredible job. Really affirms to me the importance of listing your research assistants as co-authors - in these contexts, I can't argue strongly enough for it.
Imaginably tough especially because clinic can bring a lot one might want to write about! Our lab recently had a cool case, though that did require significant overtime prep & writing effort: doi.org/10.1007/s007...
Awake craniotomy with English and British sign language mapping in a patient with a left temporal glioblastoma reveals discordant speech-sign language maps - Acta Neurochirurgica
The aim of this case study was to describe differences in English and British Sign Language (BSL) communication caused by a left temporal tumour resulting in discordant presentation of symptoms, intra...
doi.org
November 27, 2024 at 10:46 PM
Imaginably tough especially because clinic can bring a lot one might want to write about! Our lab recently had a cool case, though that did require significant overtime prep & writing effort: doi.org/10.1007/s007...
A lot of us bought the course textbook in my undergrad, which was very much a collection of authored chapters like a handbook, though I think that was because it was written by everyone at @lancslinguistics.bsky.social! Smart marketing!!
November 25, 2024 at 6:01 PM
A lot of us bought the course textbook in my undergrad, which was very much a collection of authored chapters like a handbook, though I think that was because it was written by everyone at @lancslinguistics.bsky.social! Smart marketing!!
Our group at USC had similar recently, though we did choose to accept. What's on my mind is how valuable the unrecorded impact on students (who just read and don't cite) is. I suppose authors' decisions to contribute vary by whether it's a gap in the literature or students that's fuelling demand
November 25, 2024 at 5:12 PM
Our group at USC had similar recently, though we did choose to accept. What's on my mind is how valuable the unrecorded impact on students (who just read and don't cite) is. I suppose authors' decisions to contribute vary by whether it's a gap in the literature or students that's fuelling demand
Super excited to hear you working on this! I'm actually mid-way coding the results of a gesture experiment that I guess could be a corpus too... I'm nearly 80% done and so far have ~5,500 gesture tokens. Happy accident of recruiting more participants than I realised I needed :)
November 24, 2024 at 10:54 PM
Super excited to hear you working on this! I'm actually mid-way coding the results of a gesture experiment that I guess could be a corpus too... I'm nearly 80% done and so far have ~5,500 gesture tokens. Happy accident of recruiting more participants than I realised I needed :)