Dr Glenn Williams

My research interests are centred on language processing and literacy acquisition. I'm exploring how we represent (spatial) events as discourse unfolds, and how this influences the accessibility of discourse referents during processing. I'm also interested in how exposure to a dialect influences literacy acquisition, language comprehension, and production.

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• Measuring the semantic priming effect across many languages, Buchanan, E., Cuccolo, K., Heyman, T., van Berkel, N., Coles, N., Iyer, A., Peters, K., van 't Veer, A., Montefinese, M., Maxwell, N., Taylor, J., Valentine, K., Arriaga, P., Barzykowski, K., Boucher, L., Collins, W., Vaidis, D., Aczel, B., Al-Hoorie, A., Ambrosini, E., Besson, T., Burin, D., Butt, M., Clarke, A., Daryani, Y., El-Dakhs, D., Elsherif, M., Fernández-López, M., Ferreira, P., Freitag, R., Gattei, C., Godbersen, H., Grim, P., Halama, P., Havan, P., Irrazabal, N., Isloi, C., Iversen, R., Julliard, Y., Karaaslan, A., Kohút, M., Kohútová, V., Kos, J., Kosachenko, A., Lima, T., Mak, M., Manouilidou, C., Marciaga, L., Melinna, X., Miranda, J., Morvinski, C., Muppoor, A., Müjdeci, F., Nielsen, Y., Oliveros, J., Onič, J., Papadatou-Pastou, M., Patel, I., Pavlović, Z., Pažon, B., Pfuhl, G., Pronizius, E., Roettger, T., Ronderos, C., Ruiz-Fernandez, S., Senderecka, M., Solak, Ç., Stückler, A., Szekely-Copîndean, R., Taboh, A., Thériault, R., Tran, U., Trecca, F., Ulloa, J., Varga, M., Verheyen, S., Vesić Pavlović, T., Viviani, G., Wang, N., Zivna, K., Yun, C., Clark, O., Acar, O., Adamkovič, M., Agnoletti, G., Akil, A., Alsuhaibani, Z., Amenta, S., Ananyeva, O., Andreychik, M., Angele, B., Arias Quiñones, D., Arinze, N., Askelund, A., Baker, B., Baskin, E., Batalha, L., Batres, C., Beato, M., Becker, M., Becker, M., Behnke, M., Blaison, C., Borghi, A., Brandstätter, E., Buczny, J., Budak, N., Cabana, Á., Cai, Z., Canessa, E., Cavdan, M., Cecchetti, L., Chaigneau, S., Chang, F., Chartier, C., Chen, S., Cherniaeva, E., Christiansen, M., Chuan-Peng, H., Chwiłkowska, P., Comesaña, M., Cong, C., Cowan, C., Dandeneau, S., David, O., Davis, W., Demirag Burak, E., Dixson, B., Du, H., Duclos, R., Duyck, W., Efimova, L., Egan, C., Era, V., Evans, T., Exner, A., Feldman, G., Fellnhofer, K., Fini, C., Fisher, S., Flowe, H., Garrido-Vásquez, P., Gatti, D., Geller, J., Giannouli, V., Gorokhova, A., Griener, L., Grigoryev, D., Grossmann, I., Ghasemi, H., Handjaras, G., Hauspie, C., He, Z., Heilman, R., Heydari, A., Hine, A., Hoyer, K., Hryniszak, W., Hsiao, J., Huang, G., Ihaya, K., Ilczuk, E., Ishii, T., Dumbravă, A., Jankowiak, K., Jiang, X., Johnson, D., Jończyk, R., Järvikivi, J., Kaczer, L., Kamermans, K., Karl, J., Karner, A., Kačmár, P., Keech, J., Kim, M., Korbmacher, M., Kostorz, K., Kowal, M., Kratochvil, T., Kunisato, Y., Kuzminska, A., Körtvélyessy, L., Köse, F., Köster, M., Kękuś, M., Labusch, M., Lamm, C., Lau, C., Laurino, J., Law, W., Lettieri, G., Levitan, C., Lu, J., MacPherson, S., Malinakova, K., Manriquez-Robles, D., Marchant, N., Marelli, M., Martínez, M., Matthews, M., Mattiassi, A., Mattoli-Sánchez, J., Mazzuca, C., McGovern, D., Meier, Z., Melinscak, F., Misiak, M., Monteiro, L., Moreau, D., Moreno, S., Mulgrew, K., Muller, D., Nagy, T., Naranowicz, M., Ndukaihe, I., Neta, M., Novak, L., Ogbonnaya, C., Paek, J., Paltoglou, A., Parada, F., Parker, A., Paruzel-Czachura, M., Pavlov, Y., Paydarfard, S., Pegler, D., Peker, M., Perea, M., Pfattheicher, S., Protzko, J., Prusova, I., Pypno-Blajda, K., Qiu, Z., Reips, U., Ribeiro, G., Rinaldi, L., Roberts, S., Roembke, T., Romanova, M., Ross, R., Röer, J., Rızaoğlu, F., Saari, T., Sampaolo, E., Santos, A., Sarıçiçek, F., Sasaki, K., Scharnowski, F., Schmidt, K., Sepehri, A., Serçe, H., Sevincer, A., Siew, C., Simonetti, M., Sirota, M., Sorokowska, A., Sorokowski, P., Stephen, I., Stevens, L., Stewart, S., Steyrl, D., Stieger, S., Studzinska, A., Suarez, M., Szala, A., Szmalec, A., Sznycer, D., Szumowska, E., Söylemez, S., Söylemez, B., Takashima, K., Tamnes, C., Tan, J., Tang, C., Tavel, P., Tejada, J., Thompson, B., Tiernan, J., Torres-Muñoz, V., Touloumakos, A., Trémolière, B., Tschense, M., Türkan, B., Vadillo, M., Vannucci, C., Varnum, M., Vasilev, M., Vaughn, L., Verkampt, F., Villar, L., Wallot, S., Wang, L., Wang, K., Williams, G., Willinger, D., Wolfe, K., Wormley, A., Yamada, Y., Yang, Y., Zhou, Y., Zhang, M., Zheng, W., Zheng, Y., Zhou, C., Zidkova, R., Zumbrunn, N., Çoker, O., Çoksan, S., Öner, S., Özdoğru, A., Şahin, S., Kasanov, D., Arvanitis, A., Brick, C., Colloff, M., Gallyamova, A., Koch, C., Ropovik, I., Zhang, Y., Zhou, X., Patel, S., Suchow, J., Lewis, S. 1 Jan 2026, In: Nature Human Behaviour
• Control processes of cross- and within-language interference-A replication of Liu et al. (2019)., Williams, G., Kirk, N., Sánchez, L., Afshar, Z., Wen, Y., Declerck, M. 1 Nov 2025, In: Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning Memory and Cognition
• Facilitators and barriers to engaging in expressive writing among health and social care professionals, Smith, M., Hoult, L., Rippon, D., O’Brien, N., Branley-Bell, D., Byrne-Davis, L., Collins, C., Gallagher, S., Kinman, G., Mark, A., O’Connor, D., Vedhara, K., Williams, G., Wetherell, M. 25 Aug 2025, In: PLoS One
• Assessing the psychobiological demands of high-fidelity training in pre-hospital emergency medicine, Wetherell, M., Williams, G., Doran, J. 9 Oct 2024, In: Scandinavian Journal of Trauma, Resuscitation and Emergency Medicine
• Time spent playing video games during periods of isolation has no effect on loneliness or mental health, Hodgetts, S., Butler, J., Williams, G. 2 Oct 2024, In: Behaviour and Information Technology
• Uncovering the social determinants of brain injury rehabilitation, Dunne, S., Williams, G., Bradbury, C., Keyes, T., Lane, A., Yang, K., Ellison, A. 1 Sep 2023, In: Journal of Health Psychology
• Adverse effects of loneliness but no effect of gaming on mental health in gamers during three UK COVID-19 lockdowns, Hodgetts, S., Williams, G., Butler, J. 18 Feb 2022
• Exposure to dialect variation in an artificial language prior to literacy training impairs reading of words with competing variants but does not affect decoding skills, Williams, G., Panayotov, N., Kempe, V. 1 Dec 2022, In: Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition
• Uncovering the social determinants of brain injury rehabilitation, Dunne, S., Williams, G., Bradbury, C., Keyes, T., Lane, A., Yang, K., Ellison, A. 25 Jul 2022
• How does dialect exposure affect learning to read and spell? An artificial orthography study, Williams, G., Panayotov, N., Kempe, V. 1 Dec 2020, In: Journal of Experimental Psychology: General

Mat Cieśla Decoding dialect density: Evaluating dialect strength and its effects on language processing Start Date: 01/10/2023

You can read more about me and my work at https://glennwilliams.me/

• Psychology PhD June 30 2016
• Education PGCert
• Linguistics MRes
• Psychology BSc (Hons)

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