Lydia Wiernik

I completed my undergraduate degree in Linguistics at the University of Edinburgh in 2024. My dissertation, supervised by Dr Gabrielle Hodge, investigated the influence of bimodal bilingualism (specifically, English and British Sign Language) on hearing individuals’ cognitive strategies for visuospatial perspective-taking. Since graduating, I’ve been working with Drs Patrick Trettenbrein, Philipp Kuhnke, and Sabrina Turker in the Department of Neuropsychology at the Max Planck Institute for Human Cognitive and Brain Sciences (Leipzig), and in the summer semester 2025 I joined the Sign Lab team at the University of Göttingen. My primary research interests are in the neurobiology of sign language and bimodal bilingual (neuro)cognition.