Dr. Cyrille Magne

Professor

Dr. Cyrille Magne
615-898-5599
(615) 898-5027
Room 367, Academic Classroom Building (ACB)
MTSU Box 87, Murfreesboro, TN 37132
Office Hours

Tuesdays and Thursdays, 1:00 - 2:00 PM, In-person or Zoom, by appointment: Email to schedule.

Degree Information

  • PHD, Universite Paul Cezanne - Aix-Marseille III (2005)
  • MS, Universite Paul Cezanne - Aix-Marseille III (2002)
  • BS, Universite Paul Cezanne - Aix-Marseille III (2001)

Areas of Expertise

Cognitive Neuroscience, Psycholinguistics.

Biography

Cyrille Magne holds a Bachelor of Science in Cellular and Molecular Biology, a Master of Science in Neuroscience, and a Ph.D. in Neuroscience, all obtained from Paul Cézanne University in France. He also completed a two-year postdoctoral research fellowship at the Center for Complex Systems and Brain Sciences at Florida Atlantic University. Magne has authored over 40 peer-reviewed articles and book chapters, with his work published in leading neuroscience and psychology journals. His p...

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Cyrille Magne holds a Bachelor of Science in Cellular and Molecular Biology, a Master of Science in Neuroscience, and a Ph.D. in Neuroscience, all obtained from Paul Cézanne University in France. He also completed a two-year postdoctoral research fellowship at the Center for Complex Systems and Brain Sciences at Florida Atlantic University. Magne has authored over 40 peer-reviewed articles and book chapters, with his work published in leading neuroscience and psychology journals. His publications have appeared in esteemed outlets such as Nature Communications, Cerebral Cortex, Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience, NeuroImage, and Trends in Cognitive Sciences.

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Publications

Nayak, S., Ladanyi, E., Eising, E., Mekki, Y., Nitin, R., Bush, C., Gustavson, D., Anglada-Tort, M.,Lancaster, H., Mosin, M., Ullen, F., Magne, C. L., Fisher, S., Jacoby, N., Gordon, R. (in press). Musical rhythm abilities and risk for developmental speech-language problems and disorders: epidemiological and polygenic associations. Nature Communications.

Boorom, O., Nayak, S., Ladanyi, E., Magne, C. L., Gordon, R. L. (2025). Music and Developmental Disorders of Reading and Spoken Lang...

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Nayak, S., Ladanyi, E., Eising, E., Mekki, Y., Nitin, R., Bush, C., Gustavson, D., Anglada-Tort, M.,Lancaster, H., Mosin, M., Ullen, F., Magne, C. L., Fisher, S., Jacoby, N., Gordon, R. (in press). Musical rhythm abilities and risk for developmental speech-language problems and disorders: epidemiological and polygenic associations. Nature Communications.

Boorom, O., Nayak, S., Ladanyi, E., Magne, C. L., Gordon, R. L. (2025). Music and Developmental Disorders of Reading and Spoken Language. In Daniela Sammler (ed.), The Oxford Handbook of Language and Music, Oxford University Press. https://doi.org/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780192894700.013.0030

Hayes, H. B., Magne, C. L. (2025). Dataset of 37-subject EEG recordings using a low-cost mobile EEG headset during a semantic relatedness judgment task. Data in Brief, 59,111390. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.dib.2025.111390

Hayes, H. B., & Magne, C. (2024). Exploring the Utility of the Muse Headset for Capturing the N400: Dependability and Single-Trial Analysis. Sensors, 24(24), 7961. https://doi.org/10.3390/s24247961

Powell, S. J., Nayak, S., & Magne, C. L. (2024). Examining the Neural Markers of Speech Rhythm in Silent Reading Using Mass Univariate Statistics of EEG Single Trials. Brain Sciences, 14(11), 1142. https://doi.org/10.3390/brainsci14111142

 

... and many more on my Google Scholar profile

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Presentations

Park, J., Elleman, A. M., Magne, C. L., Pingitore, D. A., MacDonald, L. M. (2025, July). The effects of syntactic skill interventions on passage and sentence-level reading comprehension in prek-12 students: A meta-analytic review. Thirty-First Annual Meeting of the Society for the Scientific Study of Reading, Calgary, Canada. 

Magne, C. L. (2025, March). Beyond Decoding: How Speech Rhythm Awareness Impacts Reading Success. 12th Annual MTSU Literacy Research Conference, Murfreesbo...

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Park, J., Elleman, A. M., Magne, C. L., Pingitore, D. A., MacDonald, L. M. (2025, July). The effects of syntactic skill interventions on passage and sentence-level reading comprehension in prek-12 students: A meta-analytic review. Thirty-First Annual Meeting of the Society for the Scientific Study of Reading, Calgary, Canada. 

Magne, C. L. (2025, March). Beyond Decoding: How Speech Rhythm Awareness Impacts Reading Success. 12th Annual MTSU Literacy Research Conference, Murfreesboro, TN, United States. 

Nayak, S., Scartozzi, A., Gustavson, D., Magne, C. L., Creanza, N., Below, J., Gordon, R. (2024, October). Investigating the neurobiology of human prosody perception using (neuro)genomic and cross-species approaches. Annual Meeting of the Society for the Neurobiology of Language, Brisbane, Australia.  

Gordon, R., Nayak, S., Ladanyi, E., Eising, E., Mekki, Y., Nitin, R., Bush, C., Gustavson, D., Anglada-Tort, M., Lancaster, H., Magne, C. L., Fisher, S., Jacoby, N. (2024, October). Musical rhythm impairments are a risk factor for developmental speech, language, and reading disorders: epidemiological and polygenic associations. Annual Meeting of the Society for the Neurobiology of Language, Brisbane, Australia. 

Bernstein, S. E., Magne, C. L. (2024, July). Prosodic and Morphemic Influences on Spelling Complex Words. Thirty-First Annual Meeting of the Society for the Scientific Study of Reading (SSSR), Copenhagen, Denmark. 

Wolfe, S., McNeil, G., Liu, J., Shumate, A., Gordon, R., Nayak, S., Magne, C. (2024, July). Examining the relationships between lexical stress sensitivity and reading skill in adult readers. Thirty-First Annual Meeting of the Society for the Scientific Study of Reading (SSSR), Copenhagen, Denmark.

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Awards

2014 Distinguished Research Award, MTSU Foundation

Research / Scholarly Activity

Dr. Magne’s research interest lies at the interface of Neuroscience, Psycholinguistics and Education. His lab provides a collaborative environment in which undergraduate and graduate students work together to address basic questions regarding the relationship between speech rhythm perception, musical aptitude and language skills, using eye-tracking, brain imaging, and genetics methodologies.

Courses

PSY2000 Seminar on Careers in Psychology

PSY2190 Introduction to Biopsychology

PSY4240/5240 Behavioral Neuroscience

LITS7011 Neurobiology of Language and Literacy

LITS7021 Cognitive Neuropsychology of Language and Literacy