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Professor Piers Cornelissen

Professor

Department: Psychology

HLS Piers Cornelissen Staffprofile 255Prof 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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  • 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
  • Perceptual body image tasks require ethnically appropriate stimuli, Ridley, B., Hamamoto, Y., Cornelissen, P., Kramer, R., McCarty, K., Tovée, M. 8 May 2025, In: Body Image
  • Treating negative body image in adolescents with eating disorders using an online training: A series of replicated single-case experiments, Glashouwer, K., Doornbos-Burema, A., Onghena, P., McCarty, K., Cornelissen, P. 30 Jan 2025, In: Single Case in the Social Sciences
  • 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
  • Personal ideal, cultural ideal and optimal attractiveness: Are these constructs for body size and shape the same or different?, Ridley, B., Cornelissen, P., Maalin, N., Mohamed, S., Kramer, R., McCarty, K., Tovée, M. 1 Dec 2024, In: Body Image
  • Sample characteristics for quantitative analyses in Body Image: Issues of generalisability, Pollet, T., Bovet, J., Buhaenko, R., Cornelissen, P., Tovee, M. 1 Jun 2024, In: Body Image
  • Testing the validity of online psychophysical measurement of body image perception, Gumančík, J., Cornelissen, P., Brokjøb, L., Ridley-Gamble, B., McCarty, K., Tovee, M., Cornelissen, K. 10 Jun 2024, In: PLoS One
  • The MapMe Body Scales: Validity and Reliability of a Biometrically Accurate, Photorealistic Set of Child Body Size Scales, Ridley, B., Evans, E., Cornelissen, P., Kramer, R., Tovee, M. 16 Oct 2024, In: Children
  • How do looking patterns, anti-fat bias, and causal weight attributions relate to adults’ judgements of child weight?, Evans, E., Tovée, M., Hancock, P., Cornelissen, P. 1 Mar 2023, In: Body Image

  • Physiology PhD June 30 1992
  • Medicine MBBS August 01 1987
  • Physiology BA June 01 1984
  • Information not provided General Medical Council (GMC) 2012


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