Cyrille L. Magne
Psychology
Distinguished Research Award
Cyrille Magne earned a B.S. in Cellular and Molecular Biology, an M.S. in Neuroscience, and a
Ph.D. in Neuroscience from Paul Cézanne University (France). He also completed a two-year
post-doctoral research fellowship at the Center for Complex Systems and Brain Sciences at
Florida Atlantic University.
Dr. Magne’s research interests focus on the neural correlates of speech perception, reading
acquisition, and the influence of music training on language processing. He has published
twenty-nine peer-reviewed articles and book chapters. His publications can be found in highlyranked neuroscience and psychology journals including the Cerebral Cortex, Journal of Cognitive
Neuroscience, NeuroImage, Trends in Cognitive Sciences, Frontiers in Psychology and PLoS One.
Dr. Magne is currently the Principle Investigator of a grant from the National Science
Foundation aimed at investigating how linguistic rhythm affects the understanding of both
structure and meaning of written text in English.