Dr. Corrina Maguinness

I studied Psychology (B.A.) and Cognitive Science (M.A.) at University College Dublin in Ireland. In 2009, I joined the Multisensory Cognition Research Group (headed by Prof. Fiona Newell in the School of Psychology and Trinity College Institute of Neuroscience, Ireland) as a Research Assistant. During this time, I worked on two large projects- ‘Metropolis’ and ‘Technology Research for Independent Living’- examining how the combination of multisensory cues (vision, audition) can enhance both- user’s experiences of virtual environments; - perceptual and cognitive function in older age. In 2010, I began my own Ph.D. within this group focusing on the perceptual processes involved in recognising others by face and voice. In conjunction with examinations in younger typically developed adults, I also focused on how these processes are impacted by ageing and atypical development (i.e. developmental prosopagnosia or ‘face-blindness’, a socially debilitating face-identity recognition disorder which affects approx. 1 in every 40 people). In 2015 after completing my Doctorate (Ph.D.), I joined the Neural Mechanisms of Human Communication Group (headed by Prof. Dr. med. Katharina von Kriegstein at the Max Planck Institute for Human Cognitive and Brain Sciences in Leipzig, Germany). My post-doctoral research has focused on developing and also testing neural models (using fMRI) of how face and voice-identity processing is accomplished in the human brain. I am particularly interested in the common functional architecture of the visual and auditory systems, and how these systems interact.

• Perceptual and neural mechanisms of multisensory person-identity processing
• Disorders of person-identity processing: prosopagnosia and phonagnosia
• Age-related changes in multisensory processing

Maguinness, C. & von Kriegstein, K. (2021). Visual mechanisms for voice-identity recognition flexibly adjust to auditory noise level. Human Brain Mapping, 42(12), 3963-3982. https://doi.org/10.1002/hbm.25532

Maguinness, C., Roswandowitz, C., & von Kriegstein, K. (2018). Understanding the mechanisms of familiar voice-identity recognition in the human brain. Neuropsychologia, 116(Pt B), 179-193. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.neuropsychologia.2018.03.039

Maguinness, C. & von Kriegstein, K. (2017). Cross-modal processing of voices and faces in developmental prosopagnosia and developmental phonagnosia. Visual Cognition, 25:4-6, 644-657. https://doi.org/10.1080/13506285.2017.1313347

Maguinness, C. & Newell, F. N. (2015). Non-rigid, but not rigid motion, interferes with the processing of structural face information in developmental prosopagnosia. Neuropsychologia, 70, 281-295. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.neuropsychologia.2015.02.038

Maguinness, C. & Newell, F. N. (2015). Motion facilitates face perception across changes in viewpoint and expression in older adults. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance, 40(6), 2266-2280. http://dx.doi.org/10.1037/a0038124

Maguinness, C. & Newell, F. N. (2014). Recognising others: Adaptive changes to person recognition throughout the lifespan. In Schwartz, B. L., Howe, M. L., Toglia, M. P., & Otgaar, H. (Eds).  What is adaptive about adaptive memory?  Oxford University Press. https://doi.org/10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199928057.003.0013