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Guillaume Thierry

Guillaume Thierry

D-Index & Metrics

Neuroscience

D-Index
50
Citations
9934
World Ranking
5712
National Ranking
468

Psychology

D-Index
50
Citations
9813
World Ranking
5445
National Ranking
567

Overview

Guillaume Thierry is affiliated with Bangor University in the United Kingdom and is active in research at the intersection of psychology and neuroscience. Their work predominantly focuses on areas such as cognitive neuroscience, experimental and cognitive psychology, as well as developmental and educational psychology.

Their scholarly output includes numerous publications in leading venues, emphasizing topics related to the neurobiology of language and bilingualism, language, metaphor, and cognition, and reading and literacy development. Other thematic interests include categorization, perception and language, action observation and synchronization, neural and behavioral psychology studies, and language development and disorders.

  • Neurobiology of Language and Bilingualism
  • Language, Metaphor, and Cognition
  • Reading and Literacy Development
  • Categorization, perception, and language
  • Action Observation and Synchronization
  • Neural and Behavioral Psychology Studies
  • Language Development and Disorders

Thierry has contributed research published in prominent journals and platforms, such as:

  • Language Learning
  • SSRN Electronic Journal
  • Bilingualism Language and Cognition
  • Brain Sciences
  • Cerebral Cortex

Frequent collaboration characterizes Thierry's research approach, with notable coauthors including Rafał Jończyk, Katarzyna Bromberek-Dyzman, Yan Jing Wu, Michaël Darmon, and Bruno Mourvillier, reflecting a network of interdisciplinary partnerships.

  • Rafał Jończyk
  • Katarzyna Bromberek-Dyzman
  • Yan Jing Wu
  • Michaël Darmon
  • Bruno Mourvillier

Some of their recent papers include the following:

  • "Towards Optimization of Hydroxychloroquine Dosing in Intensive Care Unit COVID-19 Patients" (2020), Clinical Infectious Diseases
  • "Bilingualism and aging: A focused neuroscientific review" (2020), Journal of Neurolinguistics
  • "Rapid learning of a phonemic discrimination in the first hours of life" (2022), Nature Human Behaviour
  • "A longitudinal study of SARS-CoV-2 infected patients shows high correlation between neutralizing antibodies and COVID-19 severity" (2020), bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • "Switchmate! An Electrophysiological Attempt to Adjudicate Between Competing Accounts of Adjective-Noun Code-Switching" (2020), Frontiers in Psychology

Thierry's research fields are predominantly psychology and neuroscience, with a significant number of publications focusing on experimental and cognitive psychology and cognitive neuroscience. This multidisciplinary approach contributes to understanding complex cognitive processes including bilingualism, language development, and neurobiological mechanisms underlying cognition.

Best Publications

  • Brain potentials reveal unconscious translation during foreign-language comprehension

    Guillaume Thierry;Yan Jing Wu

  • Renewal of the Neurophysiology of Language: Functional Neuroimaging

    Jean-François Démonet;Guillaume Thierry;Dominique Cardebat

  • Unconscious effects of language-specific terminology on preattentive color perception.

    Guillaume Thierry;Panos Athanasopoulos;Alison Wiggett;Benjamin Dering

  • Bilinguals reading in their second language do not predict upcoming words as native readers do

    Clara D. Martin;Clara D. Martin;Guillaume Thierry;Guillaume Thierry;Jan-Rouke Kuipers;Bastien Boutonnet

  • Tracking Lexical Access in Speech Production: Electrophysiological Correlates of Word Frequency and Cognate Effects

    Kristof Strijkers;Albert Costa;Guillaume Thierry

  • Chinese–English Bilinguals Reading English Hear Chinese

    Yan Jing Wu;Guillaume Thierry

  • Controlling for interstimulus perceptual variance abolishes N170 face selectivity.

    Guillaume Thierry;Clara D Martin;Clara D Martin;Paul Downing;Alan J Pegna

  • The time course of word retrieval revealed by event-related brain potentials during overt speech

    Albert Costa;Kristof Strijkers;Clara Martin;Guillaume Thierry

  • Sound symbolism scaffolds language development in preverbal infants

    Michiko Asano;Mutsumi Imai;Sotaro Kita;Keiichi Kitajo

  • Relationship between ventilatory settings and barotrauma in the acute respiratory distress syndrome.

    Mohamed Boussarsar;Guillaume Thierry;Samir Jaber;Françoise Roudot-Thoraval

  • An event-related potential component sensitive to images of the human body

    Guillaume Thierry;Alan J. Pegna;Alan J. Pegna;Chris Dodds;Chris Dodds;Mark Roberts

  • Two Languages, Two Minds Flexible Cognitive Processing Driven by Language of Operation

    Panos Athanasopoulos;Emanuel Bylund;Guillermo Montero-Melis;Ljubica Damjanovic

  • Speech-specific auditory processing: where is it?

    Cathy Price;Guillaume Thierry;Tim Griffiths

  • Brain potentials reveal semantic priming in both the 'active' and the 'non-attended' language of early bilinguals.

    Clara D. Martin;Benjamin R. Dering;Enlli M. Thomas;Guillaume Thierry

  • Hemispheric Dissociation in Access to the Human Semantic System

    Guillaume Thierry;Anne Lise Giraud;Cathy Price

  • Perceptual shift in bilingualism: brain potentials reveal plasticity in pre-attentive colour perception

    Panos Athanasopoulos;Benjamin Dering;Alison Wiggett;Jan Rouke Kuipers

  • Fast Modulation of Executive Function by Language Context in Bilinguals

    Yan Jing Wu;Guillaume Thierry

  • Language selection in bilingual word production: electrophysiological evidence for cross-language competition.

    Noriko Hoshino;Guillaume Thierry

  • How Reading in a Second Language Protects Your Heart

    Yan Jing Wu;Guillaume Thierry

  • Behavioral and ERP evidence for amodal sluggish attentional shifting in developmental dyslexia.

    Marie Lallier;Marie Josèphe Tainturier;Benjamin Dering;Sophie Donnadieu

  • Tracking Lexical Access in Speech Production: Electrophysiological Correlates of Word Frequency and

    Kristof Strijkers;Albert Costa;Guillaume Thierry

Frequent Co-Authors

Jean-François Démonet
Jean-François Démonet University Hospital of Lausanne
Albert Costa
Albert Costa Pompeu Fabra University
Alan J. Pegna
Alan J. Pegna University of Queensland
Sotaro Kita
Sotaro Kita University of Warwick
Paul E. Downing
Paul E. Downing Bangor University
Mutsumi Imai
Mutsumi Imai Keio University
Jon Andoni Duñabeitia
Jon Andoni Duñabeitia Nebrija University
Cathy J. Price
Cathy J. Price University College London
Jarrad A. G. Lum
Jarrad A. G. Lum Deakin University
Angela D. Friederici
Angela D. Friederici Max Planck Institute for Human Cognitive and Brain Sciences

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