William Forde "Bill" Thompson is an academic who has worked in Canada, Sweden and Australia.
His research focuses on music, emotion, expertise, and performance.
He was an associate editor at Music Perception, former editor of Empirical Musicology Review (2008–2010), and chief investigator of the ARC Centre of Excellence in Cognition and its Disorders.
Born in Middletown, Connecticut, US, Thompson holds a BSc in psychology from McGill University (Montreal, Canada) and an MA and PhD in psychology from Queen's University (Kingston, Canada).
In addition to his academic work, Thompson has composed and performed music for a number of films and plays, including several by his sister, Canadian playwright Judith Thompson.