Prof Guillaume Thierry
Professor in Psychology

Research
Using experimental psychology and electroencephalography, Guillaume Thierry studies language comprehension in the auditory and visual modalities, and mainly the processing of meaning by the human brain, i.e., semantic access. Since he started his career at Bangor University in 2000, Professor Thierry has investigated a range of themes, such as verbal/non-verbal dissociations, visual object recognition, colour perception, functional cerebral asymmetry, language-emotion interactions, language development, developmental dyslexia, and bilingualism. Since 2005, Prof. Thierry’s has received funding form the BBSRC, the ESRC, the AHRC, the European Research Council, and the British Academy to investigate the integration of meaning in infants and adults at lexical, syntactic, and conceptual levels, using behavioural measurements, event-related brain potentials, eye-tracking and functional neuroimaging, looking at differences between sensory modalities, different languages in bilinguals, and coding system (verbal / nonverbal). Prof. Thierry’s core research question is how the human brain crystallises knowledge and builds up a meaningful representation of the world around it. He now focuses on linguistic relativity and the philosophical question of mental freedom.
Teaching and Supervision
PPP1005 - Brain and Mind - 1st Year Undergraduate Module including Hands-on Human Brain Anatomy Practicals
Publications (140)
- Published
Facilitation of Fast Backward Priming After Left Cerebellar Continuous Theta-Burst Stimulation
Research output: Contribution to journal › Article
- Accepted/In press
Found in translation: Late bilinguals do automatically activate their native language when they are not using it
Research output: Contribution to journal › Article
- Accepted/In press
Learning to read bilingually modulates the manifestations of dyslexia in adults
Research output: Contribution to journal › Article
Prof. activities and awards (1)
Matrix language rules: Electrophysiological investigation of the mechanism governing code-switching in Welsh-English bilinguals
Activity: Talk or presentation › Invited talk
Projects (2)
Translanguaging: The quest for the bilingual learning advantage
Project: Research
Neurosemantics: The Human brain as a meaning processor
Project: Research