Eleanor Maguire
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Eleanor Maguire at the Royal Society admissions day in London for new fellows in 2016
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| Born | Eleanor Anne Maguire 27 March 1970 Dublin, Ireland |
| Nationality | Irish |
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University College Dublin University of Wales, Swansea |
| Thesis | Real-world spatial memory following temporal-lobe surgery in humans (1994) |
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Eleanor Anne Maguire, FMedSci FRS (born 27 March 1970) is an Irish neuroscientist and academic. Since 2007, she has been Professor of Cognitive Neuroscience at University College London.
Maguire was born on 27 March 1970 in Dublin, Ireland. She studied psychology at University College Dublin and graduated with a Bachelor of Arts (BA Hons) degree in 1990. She studied Clinical and experimental neuropsychology at University of Wales, Swansea and graduated with a Master of Science degree in 1991. She undertook her Doctor of Philosophy (PhD) degree at University College Dublin, Ireland, where she first became interested in the neural basis of memory while working with patients as a neuropsychologist at Beaumont Hospital, Dublin. She completed her PhD in 1994, and her doctoral thesis was titled "Real-world spatial memory following temporal-lobe surgery in humans".
Maguire is a Wellcome Trust Principal Research Fellow and Professor of Cognitive Neuroscience at the Wellcome Trust Centre for Neuroimaging at University College London, UK, where she is also the Deputy Head. Maguire heads the Memory and Space research laboratory at the Centre. In addition, she is an honorary member of the Department of Neuropsychology, National Hospital for Neurology and Neurosurgery, Queen Square, London.
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