Publications

Articles

• Watkins, F., Karim, D., Winter, B., & Thompson, R.L. (submitted). Viewing angle is an adverse condition in British Sign Language comprehension.
• Watkins F, Webb S, Stone C, Thompson R.L. (Sept, 2022). Language aptitude in the visuospatial modality: L2 British Sign Language acquisition and cognitive skills in British Sign Language-English interpreting students. Frontiers in Psychology. https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fpsyg.2022.932370/full
• Kumcu, A., & Thompson, R.L. (2021). Remembering spatial words: Sensorimotor simulation affects verbal recognition memory. Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology. https://doi.org/10.1177/17470218211059011
• Frank, S.L., Ernst, P., Thompson, R.L., Cozijn, R. (2021). The missing-VP effect in readers of English as a second language” (MC-ORIG-19-234). Memory & Cognition.
• Dye, M. & Thompson, R.L. (Feb, 2020). Perception and production of language in the visual modality: Implications for sign language development. In ed. G. Morgan, Understanding deafness, language and cognitive development: essays in honour of Bencie Woll. DOI: 1075/tilar.25.08dye
• Kumcu, A.& Thompson, R.L. (Sept, 2018). Less imageable words lead to more looks to blank locations during memory retrieval. Psychological Research Journal.
• Perlman, M., Little, H., Thompson, Bill & Thompson, R.L. (Aug, 2018). Iconicity in Signed and Spoken Vocabulary: A Comparison between American Sign Language, British Sign Language, English, and Spanish.Frontiers in Psychology.
• Watkins, F., & Thompson, R. L. (2017). The relationship between sign production and sign comprehension: What handedness reveals. Cognition, 164, 144-149.
• Huck, A., Thompson, R. L., Cruice, M., & Marshall, J. (2017). The influence of sense-contingent argument structure frequencies on ambiguity resolution in aphasia. Neuropsychologia.
• Huck, A., Thompson, R.L., Cruice, M., Marshall, J. (2017). Effects of word frequency and contextual predictability on sentence reading in aphasia: An eye movement analysis.
• Thompson, R.L., England, R., Woll, B., Lu, J., Mumford, K., & Morgan, G. (2017). Deaf and hearing children’s picture naming: impact of culture and sign language exposure on representational gesture. Language, Interaction and Acquisition.
• Kumcu, A.& Thompson, R.L., (2016). Spatial Interference and Individual Differences in Looking at Nothing for Verbal Memory. Proceedings of the 38^th Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society.
• Vinson, D.P., Thompson, R.L., Skinner, R., Vigliocco, G. (2015). A faster path between meaning and form? Iconicity facilitates sign recognition and production in British Sign Language. Journal of Memory and Language (JML). 82, 56-85. doi:10.1016/j.jml.2015.03.002
• Thompson, R.L., Vinson, D.P., Fox, N., Vigliocco, G. (2014). Is Lexical Access Driven by Temporal Order or Perceptual Salience? Evidence from British Sign Language. Proceedings of the Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society.
• Thompson, R.L., Emmorey, K., Kluender, R & Langdon, C. (2013). The eyes don’t point: Understanding language universals through person marking in American Signed Language.
• Frank, S., Fernandez-Monslave I., Thompson, R.L., Vigliocco, G. (2013).  Reading-time data for evaluating broad-coverage models of English sentence processing. Behavior Research Methods.
• Thompson, R.L., Vinson, D.P., Woll, B., Vigliocco, G. (2012). The road to language learning is iconic: evidence from British Sign Language.Psychological Science. 23(12): 1443 –1448.
• Frank, S., Thompson, R. L.(2012). Early effects of word surprisal on pupil size during reading. In: N. Miyake, D. Peebles, & R.P. Cooper (Eds.), Proceedings of the 34th Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society (pp. 1554-1559). Austin, TX: Cognitive Science Society.
• Thompson, R. L. (2011). Iconicity in language processing and acquisition: What signed languages reveal. Language and Linguistics Compass. 10(5): 603-616.
• *Perniss, P., *Thompson, R.L.& Vigliocco, G. (2010). Iconicity as a general property of language: Evidence from spoken and signed languages. Frontiers in Language Sciences. *Shared first authorship.
• Thompson, R.L., Vinson, D.P, Vigliocco, G. (2010). The link between form and meaning in British Sign Language: Effects of Iconicity for Phonological Decisions. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning Memory and Cognition. 36(4):1017-1027.
• Vinson, D.P., Thompson, R.L., Skinner, R., Fox, N., Vigliocco, G. (2010). The hands and mouth do not always slip together in British Sign Language: Dissociating articulatory channels in the lexicon. Psychological Science. 21: 1158-1167.
• Thompson, R.L., Emmorey, K., & Kluender, R. (2009). Learning to look: The acquisition of eye gaze agreement during the production of ASL verbs. Bilingualism: Language and Cognition. 12(4): 393-409.
• Thompson, R.L., Vinson, D., Vigliocco, G. (2009). When Meaning Permeates Form: Effects of Iconicity for Phonological Decisions in British Sign Language. Proceedings of the 31^st Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society. Amsterdam: Cognitive Science Society.
• Vinson, D.P, Thompson, R.L., Vigliocco, G., Skinner, R., Fox, N. (2009). Errors on hands and mouth in British Sign Language, Dissociating articulatory channels in the lexicon. Proceedings of the 31^stAnnual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society. Amsterdam: Cognitive Science Society.
• Thompson, R.L., Vinson, D.P, Vigliocco, G. (2009). The link between form and meaning in American Sign Language: Lexical processing effects. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning Memory and Cognition. 35(2):550-7.
• Emmorey, K., Thompson, R.L., Colvin, R. (2008). Eye gaze during comprehension of American Sign Language by native and beginning signers. Journal of Deaf Studies and Deaf Education, 14: 237-243.
• Emmorey, K., Borinstein, H.B., Thompson, R.L., & Gollan, T.H. (2008).  Bimodal bilingualism. Bilingualism:  Language and Cognition, 11 (1), 43–61.
• Thompson, R.L., Emmorey, K., & Kluender, R. (2006). The relationship between eye gaze and agreement in American Sign Language: An eye-tracking study. Natural Language and Linguistic Theory, 24, 571-604.
• Thompson, R.L., Emmorey, K., & Gollan, T. (2005). Tip-of-the-fingers experiences by ASL signers: Insights into the organization of a sign-based lexicon. Psychological Science, 16(11), 856-860.

Book Chapters/Edited Journals

• Thompson, R.L. & Eva Gutierrez (2019). Bimodal bilingualism: A unique window into the multilingual brain. In Schwieter, J.W (Ed.). The Handbook of the Neuroscience of Multilingualism. Wiley-Blackwell.
• Thompson, R.L., (2016). Psycholinguistics of signed language. The Deaf Studies Encyclopedia. Boudreault, Patrick, Gertz, Genie, Golson, J. Geoffrey (Eds.)
• Vigliocco, G., Perniss, P., Thompson, R.L., & Vinson, D. (Eds.) (August, 2014). Language as a Multimodal Phenomenon: Implications for Language Learning, Processing, and Evolution. Issue of Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B.
• Emmorey, K., Borinstein, H.B., Thompson, R.L., Gollan, T.H. (2009).  Bimodal bilingualism.  In, Hearing, Mother Father Deaf.   M. Bishop & S. Hicks (Eds). Washington DC: Gallaudet University Press.
• Emmorey, K., Borinstein, H.B., & Thompson, R.L. (2005). Bimodal bilingualism: Code-blending between spoken English and American Sign Language, In McAlister, K., Rolstad, K., & MacSwan, J. (Eds.), ISB4: Proceedings of the 4th International Symposium on Bilingualism. Somerville, MA: Cascadilla Press.

Unpublished Theses

• Watkins, F. (2015). Phonological Processing of Dual Language Input: The relationship between phonological systems for speech-sign bilinguals. Birmingham: University of Birmingham.
• Kumcu, A. (2014). Effect of Speech Rate and Overlapping on Multimodal Language Processing. Birmingham: University of Birmingham.
• Watkins, F. (2013). Bi-bi, bilingual advantage? Auditory attention and visuospatial cognition in late bimodal bilinguals. Edinburgh: University of Edinburgh.