Professor Piers Cornelissen

Professor

School: Psychology

HLS Piers Cornelissen Staffprofile 255 Prof Piers Cornelissen holds the Chair in Cognitive Neuroscience at the Department of Psychology. He trained as a medic at St Thomas’s Hospital London. After some time in clinical practice he moved to Oxford for a DPhil and a McDonnell-Pew post-doctoral fellowship. He joined Northumbria as Chair of Cognitive Neuroscience in 2012 following periods in York and Newcastle Universities.

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Controlled retrieval relies on directed interactions between semantic control regions and visual cortex: MEG evidence from oscillatory dynamics, Eisenhauer, S., Zhang, M., Krieger-Redwood, K., Aveyard, R., Jackson, R., Cornelissen, P., Smallwood, J., Jefferies, E. 18 Mar 2026, In: Journal of Neuroscience
The validity and reliability of a biometrically accurate, photorealistic set of young adult body size scales based on 3D scans of White Europeans, Ridley, B., Cornelissen, P., Kramer, R., Maalin, N., Mohamed, S., Tovée, M. 18 Jun 2026, In: PLoS One
Can Adults Accurately Judge Child Weight Status?, Ridley, B., McCarty, K., Kramer, R., Tovee, M., Cornelissen, P. 25 Jun 2025, In: Children
Determinants of child body weight categorization in parents and health care professionals: An experimental study, Evans, E., Ridley-Gamble, B., Cornelissen, P., Kramer, R., Araújo-Soares, V., Tovee, M. 1 Feb 2025, In: British Journal of Health Psychology
Effect of cognitive bias modification training on body image dissatisfaction in adolescents with anorexia nervosa or depression—a pilot feasibility randomized controlled crossover study, Glombitza, E., Cornelissen, P., Tovee, M., Legenbauer, T. 26 Sep 2025, In: Frontiers in Psychology
Online Training for Negative Body Image in Adolescents With Anorexia Nervosa, Glashouwer, K., Doornbos-Burema, A., Onghena, P., McCarty, K., Cornelissen, P. 30 Apr 2025, In: Single Case in the Social Sciences
Perceiving intimidation through kinematic cues in men’s gait, McCarty, K., Leslie, C., Anguera de la Rosa, A., Saxton, T., Cornelissen, P. 29 Sep 2025, In: Scientific Reports
Perceptual body image tasks require ethnically appropriate stimuli, Ridley, B., Hamamoto, Y., Cornelissen, P., Kramer, R., McCarty, K., Tovée, M. 1 Jun 2025, In: Body Image
Evidence for a specific distortion in perceptual body image in eating disorders: a replication and extension, Brokjøb, L., Cornelissen, P., Gumančík, J., McCarty, K., Tovée, M., Cornelissen, K. 22 Nov 2024, In: PLoS One
Individual word representations dissociate from linguistic context along a cortical unimodal to heteromodal gradient, Eisenhauer, S., Gonzalez Alam, T., Cornelissen, P., Smallwood, J., Jefferies, E. Feb 2024, In: Human Brain Mapping