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Dr Ciara Egan

BA, MSc, PhD

Contact Details

Lecturer - Contract Type B
School of Psychology
University of Galway
E: ciara.egan@universityofgalway.ie

Biography

Dr Ciara Egan is a lecturer in Clinical Neuroscience within the School of Psychology. Prior to her appointment she completed her PhD in Cognitive Neuroscience at Bangor University, and following this worked as a researcher at the University of Oxford studying cerebral asymmetries. She is currently Co-Director of the MSc in Clinical Neuroscience, and her research focuses on cognitive neuroscience of language, neurodiversity, and open science, predominantly using EEG, event-related potentials and pupil dilation. She is also an ENLIGHT Open Science Ambassador, is active in science outreach/dissemination, and contributes to large-scale projects on embedding open scholarship into education.

Research Interests

My primary research interests surround the cognitive neuroscience and open scence, with a specific focus on language and other core cognitive functions. I use a wide-range of neuroscientific techniques for this purpose including online/behavioural testing, EEG, event-related potentials (ERPs), eye-tracking, and pupillometry. I also have a research interest in the experiences of neurodiversity in higher education and wellbeing.

For recent publications see: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2945-3279

Peer Reviewed Journals

	Year	Publication
	(2024)	'Uncinate fasciculus microstructural organisation and emotion recognition in schizophrenia: controlling for hit rate bias' Stevens, M.; Ní Mhurchú, S.; Corley, E.; Egan, C.; Hallahan, B.; McDonald, C.; Donohoe, G.; Burke, T. (2024) 'Uncinate fasciculus microstructural organisation and emotion recognition in schizophrenia: controlling for hit rate bias'. Frontiers In Behavioral Neuroscience, 18 [DOI] [Details]
	(2023)	'A 20-Year Systematic Review of the `Reading the Mind in the Eyes¿ Test across Neurodegenerative Conditions' Stafford, O., Gleeson, C., Egan, C., Tunney, C., Rooney, B., O¿Keeffe, F., McDermott, G., Baron-Cohen, S. & Burke, T. (2023) 'A 20-Year Systematic Review of the `Reading the Mind in the Eyes¿ Test across Neurodegenerative Conditions'. Brain Sciences, 13 (9) [DOI] [Details]
	(2023)	'The impact of phonological relatedness on semantic congruency judgements in readers with dyslexia: Evidence from behavioural judgements, event related potentials and pupillometry' Egan, C.; Payne, J. S.; Jones, M. W. (2023) 'The impact of phonological relatedness on semantic congruency judgements in readers with dyslexia: Evidence from behavioural judgements, event related potentials and pupillometry'. Neuropsychologia, [DOI] [Details]
	(2022)	'Inconsistent language lateralisation - testing the dissociable language laterality hypothesis using behaviour and lateralised cerebral blood flow' Parker, AJ; Woodhead, ZVJ; Carey, DP; Groen, MA; Gutierrez-Sigut, E; Hodgson, J; Hudson, J; Karlsson, EM; MacSweeney, M; Payne, H; Simpson, N; Thompson, PA; Watkins, KE; Egan, C; Grant, JH; Harte, S; Hudson, BT; Sablik, M; Badcock, NA; Bishop, DVM (2022) 'Inconsistent language lateralisation - testing the dissociable language laterality hypothesis using behaviour and lateralised cerebral blood flow'. Cortex, [DOI] [Details]
	(2022)	'As clear as glass: How figurativeness and familiarity impact simile processing in readers with and without dyslexia' Egan, C; Siyanova-Chanturia, A; Warren, P, Jones, M (2022) 'As clear as glass: How figurativeness and familiarity impact simile processing in readers with and without dyslexia'. Quarterly Journal Of Experimental Psychology, [DOI] [Details]
	(2021)	'The role of orthographic neighbourhood effects in lateralized lexical decision: a replication study and meta-analysis' Parker, Adam J and Egan, Ciara and Grant, Jack H and Harte, Sophie and Hudson, Brad T and Woodhead, Zoe V J (2021) 'The role of orthographic neighbourhood effects in lateralized lexical decision: a replication study and meta-analysis'. PeerJ, 9 [Details]
	(2020)	'The Phonological Mapping Negativity: History, Inconsistency, and Future Direction' Lewendon, Jennifer and Mortimore, Laurie and Egan, Ciara (2020) 'The Phonological Mapping Negativity: History, Inconsistency, and Future Direction'. Frontiers in psychology, [Details]
	(2020)	'How alliteration enhances conceptualâ€“attentional interactions in reading' Egan, Ciara and Cristino, Filipe and Payne, Joshua S. and Thierry, Guillaume and Jones, Manon Wyn; (2020) 'How alliteration enhances conceptualâ€“attentional interactions in reading'. Cortex, 124 :111-118 [DOI] [Details]
	(2019)	'Bilinguals apply language-specific grain sizes during sentence reading' Egan, Ciara and Oppenheim, Gary; and Saville, C. and Moll, K. and Jones, Manon Wyn; (2019) 'Bilinguals apply language-specific grain sizes during sentence reading'. Cognition, 193 [DOI] [Details]

Languages

	Language
	Welsh
	Irish

Modules Taught

Term/Year	Module Title	Module Code	Subject / Desc
2021-2022	Research Methods in Neuroscience	PS6157
2022-2023	Experimental and Clinical Neuroscience	PS6130	MSc Clinical Neuroscience
2021-2022	MSc Clinical Neuroscience Dissertation	PS6132
2022-2023	MSc Clinical Neuroscience Dissertation	PS6132	MSc Clinical Neuroscience
2022-2023	Research Methods in Neuroscience	PS6157	MSc Clinical Neuroscience
2021-2022	Neuropsychology	PS340
2021-2022	Experimental and Clinical Neuroscience	PS6130