Dr Hannah Thompson
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About
Overview
Hannah Thompson is a neuropsychologist whose focus of research is stroke, and its impact on language (e.g., aphasia), and memory (particularly semantic memory). She is also interested in the intersection of deficits or capabilities across cognition, including executive function and creativity.
Hannah completed her PhD, postdoc and fellowship at the University of York. She has since been a lecturer at Surrey, Reading and Open University, before joining City in 2023.
Hannah is interested in applications from potential PhD students exploring (1) what we can learn from aphasic speech output about the semantic system, (2) the development of semantic control and its relationship to creativity, (2) the impact of stroke aphasia on everyday experiences – including identity, motivation and social cognition, (3) treatments for aphasia, and (4) functionally intact brain regions and networks in aphasia and their relationship to behaviour. She also welcomes students with their own interests relating to these themes to get in touch.
Qualifications
- Postgraduate Certificate in Higher Education, University of Surrey, United Kingdom, December 2018
- PhD, University of York, United Kingdom, October 2009 - July 2013
- BSc, University College London, United Kingdom, October 2005 - July 2008
Employment
- Lecturer, City, University of London, United Kingdom, December 2023 - present
Publications
Publications by category
Journal articles (31)
- Thompson, H.E., Sowden, P.T., Cogdell‐Brooke, L., Violante, I.R. and Jefferies, B. (2026). Category fluency and creative potential in semantic aphasia. Journal of Neuropsychology, 20(1), pp. 154-174. doi:10.1111/jnp.70019
- Souter, N.E., Wang, X., Thompson, H., Krieger-Redwood, K., Halai, A.D., Lambon Ralph, M.A.... Jefferies, E. (2022). Mapping lesion, structural disconnection, and functional disconnection to symptoms in semantic aphasia. Brain Structure and Function, 227(9), pp. 3043-3061. doi:10.1007/s00429-022-02526-6
- Thompson, H.E., Noonan, K.A., Halai, A.D., Hoffman, P., Stampacchia, S., Hallam, G.... Jefferies, E. (2022). Damage to temporoparietal cortex is sufficient for impaired semantic control. Cortex, 156, pp. 71-85. doi:10.1016/j.cortex.2022.05.022
- Stampacchia, S., Hallam, G.P., Thompson, H.E., Nathaniel, U., Lanzoni, L., Smallwood, J.... Jefferies, E. (2022). Training flexible conceptual retrieval in post-stroke aphasia. Neuropsychological Rehabilitation, 32(7), pp. 1429-1455. doi:10.1080/09602011.2021.1895847
- Souter, N.E., Stampacchia, S., Hallam, G., Thompson, H., Smallwood, J. and Jefferies, E. (2022). Motivated semantic control: Exploring the effects of extrinsic reward and self‐reference on semantic retrieval in semantic aphasia. Journal of Neuropsychology, 16(2), pp. 407-433. doi:10.1111/jnp.12272
- Montefinese, M., Hallam, G., Stampacchia, S., Thompson, H.E. and Jefferies, E. (2021). Deficits of semantic control disproportionately affect low-relevance conceptual features: evidence from semantic aphasia. Aphasiology, 35(11), pp. 1448-1462. doi:10.1080/02687038.2020.1814950
- Lanzoni, L., Thompson, H., Beintari, D., Berwick, K., Demnitz-King, H., Raspin, H.... Jefferies, E. (2021). Corrigendum to “Emotion and location cues bias conceptual retrieval in people with deficient semantic control” [Neuropsychologia 131 (2019) 294–305]. Neuropsychologia, 152, pp. 107739-107739. doi:10.1016/j.neuropsychologia.2020.107739
- Cogdell‐Brooke, L.S., Sowden, P.T., Violante, I.R. and Thompson, H.E. (2020). A meta‐analysis of functional magnetic resonance imaging studies of divergent thinking using activation likelihood estimation. Human Brain Mapping, 41(17), pp. 5057-5077. doi:10.1002/hbm.25170
- Lanzoni, L., Ravasio, D., Thompson, H., Vatansever, D., Margulies, D., Smallwood, J.... Jefferies, E. (2020). The role of default mode network in semantic cue integration. NeuroImage, 219, pp. 117019-117019. doi:10.1016/j.neuroimage.2020.117019
- Hoffman, P., Cogdell-Brooke, L. and Thompson, H.E. (2020). Going off the rails: Impaired coherence in the speech of patients with semantic control deficits. Neuropsychologia, 146, pp. 107516-107516. doi:10.1016/j.neuropsychologia.2020.107516
- Montefinese, M., Hallam, G., Thompson, H.E. and Jefferies, E. (2020). The interplay between control processes and feature relevance: Evidence from dual-task methodology. Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology, 73(3), pp. 384-395. doi:10.1177/1747021819877163
- Cogdell-Brooke, L., Stampacchia, S., Jefferies, E., Violante, I.R. and Thompson, H.E. (2020). Consistently inconsistent: Multimodal episodic deficits in semantic aphasia. Neuropsychologia, 140, pp. 107392-107392. doi:10.1016/j.neuropsychologia.2020.107392
- Jefferies, E., Thompson, H., Cornelissen, P. and Smallwood, J. (2020). The neurocognitive basis of knowledge about object identity and events: dissociations reflect opposing effects of semantic coherence and control. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences, 375(1791), pp. 20190300-20190300. doi:10.1098/rstb.2019.0300
- Stampacchia, S., Pegg, S., Hallam, G., Smallwood, J., Lambon Ralph, M.A., Thompson, H.... Jefferies, E. (2019). Control the source: Source memory for semantic, spatial and self-related items in patients with LIFG lesions. Cortex, 119, pp. 165-183. doi:10.1016/j.cortex.2019.04.014
- Lanzoni, L., Thompson, H., Beintari, D., Berwick, K., Demnitz-King, H., Raspin, H.... Jefferies, E. (2019). Emotion and location cues bias conceptual retrieval in people with deficient semantic control. Neuropsychologia, 131, pp. 294-305. doi:10.1016/j.neuropsychologia.2019.05.030
- Stampacchia, S., Thompson, H.E., Ball, E., Nathaniel, U., Hallam, G., Smallwood, J.... Jefferies, E. (2018). Shared processes resolve competition within and between episodic and semantic memory: Evidence from patients with LIFG lesions. Cortex, 108, pp. 127-143. doi:10.1016/j.cortex.2018.07.007
- Nathaniel, U., Thompson, H.E., Davies, E., Arnold, D., Hallam, G., Stampacchia, S.... Jefferies, E. (2018). When comprehension elicits incomprehension: Deterioration of semantic categorisation in the absence of stimulus repetition. Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology, 71(9), pp. 1817-1843. doi:10.1080/17470218.2017.1363793
- Thompson, H.E., Almaghyuli, A., Noonan, K.A., barak, O., Lambon Ralph, M.A. and Jefferies, E. (2018). The contribution of executive control to semantic cognition: Convergent evidence from semantic aphasia and executive dysfunction. Journal of Neuropsychology, 12(2), pp. 312-340. doi:10.1111/jnp.12142
- Hallam, G.P., Thompson, H.E., Hymers, M., Millman, R.E., Rodd, J.M., Lambon Ralph, M.A.... Jefferies, E. (2018). Task-based and resting-state fMRI reveal compensatory network changes following damage to left inferior frontal gyrus. Cortex, 99, pp. 150-165. doi:10.1016/j.cortex.2017.10.004
- Thompson, H.E. and Woollams, A.M. (2017). Reduced neural ‘effort’ after naming treatment in anomia. Brain, 140(11), pp. 2773-2775. doi:10.1093/brain/awx264
- Thompson, H., Davey, J., Hoffman, P., Hallam, G., Kosinski, R., Howkins, S.... Jefferies, E. (2017). Semantic control deficits impair understanding of thematic relationships more than object identity. Neuropsychologia, 104, pp. 113-125. doi:10.1016/j.neuropsychologia.2017.08.013
- Davey, J., Thompson, H.E., Hallam, G., Karapanagiotidis, T., Murphy, C., De Caso, I.... Jefferies, E. (2016). Exploring the role of the posterior middle temporal gyrus in semantic cognition: Integration of anterior temporal lobe with executive processes. NeuroImage, 137, pp. 165-177. doi:10.1016/j.neuroimage.2016.05.051
- Thompson, H.E., Henshall, L. and Jefferies, E. (2016). The role of the right hemisphere in semantic control: A case-series comparison of right and left hemisphere stroke. Neuropsychologia, 85, pp. 44-61. doi:10.1016/j.neuropsychologia.2016.02.030
- Thompson, H.E., Robson, H., Lambon Ralph, M.A. and Jefferies, E. (2015). Varieties of semantic ‘access’ deficit in Wernicke’s aphasia and semantic aphasia. Brain, 138(12), pp. 3776-3792. doi:10.1093/brain/awv281
- Davey, J., Cornelissen, P.L., Thompson, H.E., Sonkusare, S., Hallam, G., Smallwood, J.... Jefferies, E. (2015). Automatic and Controlled Semantic Retrieval: TMS Reveals Distinct Contributions of Posterior Middle Temporal Gyrus and Angular Gyrus. The Journal of Neuroscience, 35(46), pp. 15230-15239. doi:10.1523/jneurosci.4705-14.2015
- Ivtzan, I., Chan, C.P.L., Gardner, H.E. and Prashar, K. (2013). Linking Religion and Spirituality with Psychological Well-being: Examining Self-actualisation, Meaning in Life, and Personal Growth Initiative. Journal of Religion and Health, 52(3), pp. 915-929. doi:10.1007/s10943-011-9540-2
- Thompson, H.E. and Jefferies, E. (2013). Semantic control and modality: An input processing deficit in aphasia leading to deregulated semantic cognition in a single modality. Neuropsychologia, 51(10), pp. 1998-2015. doi:10.1016/j.neuropsychologia.2013.06.030
- Ivtzan, I., Gardner, H.E., Bernard, I., Sekhon, M. and Hart, R. (2013). Wellbeing through self-fulfilment: Examining developmental aspects of self-actualization. The Humanistic Psychologist, 41(2), pp. 119-132. doi:10.1080/08873267.2012.712076
- Ivtzan, I., Redman, E. and Gardner, H.E. (2012). Gender role and empathy within different orientations of counselling psychology. Counselling Psychology Quarterly, 25(4), pp. 377-388. doi:10.1080/09515070.2012.711520
- Almaghyuli, A., Thompson, H., Lambon Ralph, M.A. and Jefferies, E. (2012). Deficits of semantic control produce absent or reverse frequency effects in comprehension: Evidence from neuropsychology and dual task methodology. Neuropsychologia, 50(8), pp. 1968-1979. doi:10.1016/j.neuropsychologia.2012.04.022
- Gardner, H.E., Lambon Ralph, M.A., Dodds, N., Jones, T., Ehsan, S. and Jefferies, E. (2012). The Differential Contributions of pFC and Temporo-parietal Cortex to Multimodal Semantic Control: Exploring Refractory Effects in Semantic Aphasia. Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience, 24(4), pp. 778-793. doi:10.1162/jocn_a_00184