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48
Citations
8519
World Ranking
5963
National Ranking
609

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2016 - Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)

Overview

Bencie Woll is affiliated with University College London in the United Kingdom and has made contributions across several intersecting academic fields, notably psychology, neuroscience, and computer science. Their research focuses on areas such as developmental and educational psychology, cognitive neuroscience, human-computer interaction, language and linguistics, and experimental and cognitive psychology.

Their work spans multiple topics including:

  • Hearing Impairment and Communication
  • Hand Gesture Recognition Systems
  • Language, Discourse, Communication Strategies
  • Multisensory Perception and Integration
  • Neural Dynamics and Brain Function
  • Tactile and Sensory Interactions
  • Human Pose and Action Recognition

Bencie Woll has collaborated frequently with several coauthors, including Velia Cardin, Valeria Vinogradova, Martin Eimer, R. Herman, and Justyna Kotowicz.

They have published extensively in venues such as:

  • arXiv (Cornell University)
  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • The Journal of Deaf Studies and Deaf Education
  • Brain
  • Universal Access in the Information Society

Recent publications by Bencie Woll cover diverse topics and include:

  • "Studies in Language," 2025, published in Studies in Language
  • "Sensory experience modulates the reorganization of auditory regions for executive processing," 2022, published in Brain
  • "Adaptation of the British Sign Language Receptive Skills Test into Polish Sign Language," 2020, published in Language Testing
  • "Best practices for sign language technology research," 2023, published in Universal Access in the Information Society
  • "BBC-Oxford British Sign Language Dataset," 2021, published in arXiv (Cornell University)

Bencie Woll has received recognition as a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) in 2016.

Best Publications

  • Sign Language: The Study of Deaf People and their Language

    JG Kyle;B Woll

  • The signing brain: the neurobiology of sign language

    Mairéad MacSweeney;Cheryl M. Capek;Ruth Campbell;Bencie Woll

  • Neural systems underlying British Sign Language and audio‐visual English processing in native users

    Mairead MacSweeney;Bencie Woll;Ruth Campbell;Philip K. McGuire

  • Differential coding of perception in the world's languages

    Asifa Majid;Asifa Majid;Seán G. Roberts;Ludy Cilissen;Karen Emmorey

  • Sign Language: An International Handbook

    Roland Pfau;Markus Steinbach;Bencie Woll

  • The Road to Language Learning Is Iconic Evidence From British Sign Language

    Robin L. Thompson;David P. Vinson;Bencie Woll;Gabriella Vigliocco

  • Phonological processing in deaf signers and the impact of age of first language acquisition.

    Mairéad MacSweeney;Dafydd Waters;Dafydd Waters;Michael J. Brammer;Bencie Woll

  • Aphasia in a user of British Sign Language: Dissociation between sign and gesture.

    Jane Marshall;Jo Atkinson;Elaine Smulovitch;Alice Thacker

  • Dissociating linguistic and nonlinguistic gestural communication in the brain.

    Mairéad MacSweeney;Ruth Campbell;Bencie Woll;Vincent Giampietro

  • Early vocabulary development in deaf native signers: a British Sign Language adaptation of the communicative development inventories

    Tyron Woolfe;Rosalind Herman;Penny Roy;Bencie Woll

  • Dissociating cognitive and sensory neural plasticity in human superior temporal cortex

    Velia Cardin;Velia Cardin;Eleni Orfanidou;Eleni Orfanidou;Jerker Rönnberg;Cheryl M. Capek

  • Silent speechreading in the absence of scanner noise: an event-related fMRI study.

    Mairéad Macsweeney;Edson Amaro;Gemma A. Calvert;Ruth Campbell

  • Frequency distribution and spreading behavior of different types of mouth actions in three sign languages

    Onno A. Crasborn;Els van der Kooij;Dafydd Waters;Bencie Woll

  • Pronouns and pointing in sign languages

    Kearsy Cormier;Adam Schembri;Bencie Woll

  • How does visual language affect crossmodal plasticity and cochlear implant success

    C.R. Lyness;B. Woll;R. Campbell;V. Cardin;V. Cardin

  • Dispersed activation in the left temporal cortex for speech-reading in congenitally deaf people.

    Mairéad MacSweeney;Ruth Campbell;Gemma A. Calvert;Philip K. McGuire

  • Why do mothers cradle babies on their left

    J.S. Sieratzki;B. Woll

  • Neural Correlates of British Sign Language Comprehension: Spatial Processing Demands of Topographic Language

    Mairéad Macsweeney;Bencie Woll;Ruth Campbell;Gemma A. Calvert

  • Identifying Specific Language Impairment in Deaf Children Acquiring British Sign Language: Implications for Theory and Practice.

    Kathryn Mason;Kathryn Mason;Katherine Rowley;Katherine Rowley;Chloe R. Marshall;Joanna R. Atkinson

  • Speechreading circuits in people born deaf.

    Mairéad MacSweeney;Gemma A Calvert;Ruth Campbell;Philip K McGuire

  • Interaction and Childhood Deafness

    Clare Galloway;Bencie Woll

  • Lexical variation and change in british sign language.

    Rose Stamp;Adam Schembri;Jordan Fenlon;Ramas Rentelis

  • What the hands reveal about the brain: H. Poizner, E.S. Klima and U. Bellugi, (A bradford book - MIT Press, London and Cambridge, MA, 1987) pp. xvii + 236, £22.50

    Bencie Woll

  • Psychological perspectives on deafness

    RL Sutton-Spence;B Woll

Frequent Co-Authors

Ruth Campbell
Ruth Campbell University College London
Philip McGuire
Philip McGuire University of Oxford
Anthony S. David
Anthony S. David University College London
Jane Marshall
Jane Marshall City, University of London
Mary Rudner
Mary Rudner Linköping University
Jerker Rönnberg
Jerker Rönnberg Linköping University
Chloe Marshall
Chloe Marshall University College London
Anne B. Young
Anne B. Young Harvard University
John Keady
John Keady University of Manchester
Alistair Burns
Alistair Burns University of Manchester

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