biology

Muireann Irish

Muireann Irish is a biology topic covered in the lgStudy science library. This page brings together a partial reference excerpt, illustrations, worked examples, real-world applications and a short study plan, so you can understand Muireann Irish rather than just read about it. In short: Muireann Irish is a cognitive neuropsychologist at the Brain and Mind Centre at the University of Sydney. She has won international and national awards, including an Australian Research Council Future Fellowship and L’Oreal-UNESCO For Women in Science Fellowship.

Key takeaways

Muireann Irish belongs to biology; place it in that map before memorising details.
Learn the definition first, then one example that makes the definition concrete.
Connect Muireann Irish to a quantity you can measure, compute or draw — that is where exam questions come from.
Reproduce the core statement of Muireann Irish from memory before moving on to harder problems.

Reference excerpt

Muireann Irish is a cognitive neuropsychologist at the Brain and Mind Centre at the University of Sydney. She has won international and national awards, including an Australian Research Council Future Fellowship and L’Oreal-UNESCO For Women in Science Fellowship.

Career Irish works on dementia and says she is "interested in how we remember the past and imagine the future". Her career has explored how memory and imagination are changed during neurological conditions including Alzheimer's disease. Irish has given science communication talks on the importance of day dreaming.

Diversity in science Irish has advocated for diversity in science on many platforms, and she is committed to the promotion and retention of women in science. She was named as one of the inaugural 30 Superstars of STEM in 2018, as part of a growing movement with the goal of providing positive role models to young girls and minorities to pursue a career in science. Irish is one of a growing number of academic women in STEM who are committed to retaining women in science.

Awards Irish has received a number of international awards.

2020 – The Gottschalk Medal is awarded by the Australian Academy of Science 2019 – Young Investigator Award, from the Cognitive Neuroscience Agency 2019 – British Neuropsychological Society – Elizabeth Warrington Prize. 2017 – L’Oréal–UNESCO International Rising Talent Award. 2017 – Superstars of STEMM. 2016–2020 – ARC Future Fellow. 2016 – NSW Premier's Prize – Early Career Researcher of the Year 2015 – L’Oreal–UNESCO For Women in Science Fellowship. 2014 – NSW Young Tall Poppy Science Award. 2013 – Laird Cermak Award for Outstanding Research in Memory presented by the International Neuropsychological Society. Irish is a Fellow of the Royal Society of New South Wales (FRSN) and was elected a Fellow of the Academy of the Social Sciences in Australia in 2023.

Select publications Irish, Muireann; Bunk, Steffie; Tu, Sicong; Kamminga, Jody; Hodges, John R.; Hornberger, Michael; Piguet, Olivier (2016). "Preservation of episodic memory in semantic dementia: The importance of regions beyond the medial temporal lobes" (PDF). Neuropsychologia. 81: 50–60. doi:10.1016/j.neuropsychologia.2015.12.005. PMID 26683384. S2CID 220988. Piguet, Olivier; Hodges, John R.; Addis, Donna Rose; Irish, Muireann (1 July 2012). "Considering the role of semantic memory in episodic future thinking: evidence from semantic dementia" (PDF). Brain. 135 (7): 2178–2191. doi:10.1093/brain/aws119. hdl:1959.4/unsworks_12991. PMID 22614246.

Media Irish's work has been described on The Conversation. Her work provided insight into why time flies as one gets older and why we day dream. The ABC described the neuroscience work conducted by her and her team. Dementia Australia described her work on dementia. Her career path was described in Careers with STEM.

References

Worked examples

Example 1 — a first encounter with Muireann Irish

Start with the simplest possible case. Write down what Muireann Irish claims or describes in one sentence, then invent the smallest concrete situation in which that sentence is true. In biology, the smallest case is usually a single object, a single equation or a single measurement. Check that every symbol or term in your sentence has a meaning in that case.

Example 2 — changing one variable

Take the situation from Example 1 and change exactly one quantity: double it, halve it, or set it to zero. Predict what should happen to Muireann Irish before you calculate. Comparing your prediction with the result is the fastest way to find out whether you understand the idea or only the words.

Example 3 — an exam-style question

Typical questions about Muireann Irish ask you to (a) state it precisely, (b) apply it to given data, and (c) explain a limitation. Practise writing all three answers in under five minutes; the third part is what separates a full-mark answer from an average one.

Applications of Muireann Irish

In research: Muireann Irish appears in biology research whenever the underlying quantities have to be modelled precisely. Papers usually cite it as a starting assumption and then explore where it breaks down.
In technology and industry: Engineering practice reuses Muireann Irish in design rules, simulations and safety margins. Knowing the idea lets you read a specification sheet and understand why the numbers look the way they do.
In the classroom: Muireann Irish is common in secondary-school and first-year university syllabi. It links to neighbouring topics Academic staff of the University of Sydney, Alumni of Trinity College Dublin, Australian neuroscientists, so understanding it makes those chapters shorter.
In everyday life: Look for Muireann Irish outside the textbook — in sport, cooking, traffic, electronics or the sky above you. An example you found yourself is remembered far longer than one you were given.

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How to study Muireann Irish in 20 minutes

Read the reference excerpt below once, without taking notes.
Close the page and write down what Muireann Irish means in your own words.
Compare your version with the excerpt and mark what you missed.
Work through the three examples above with pen and paper.
Explain Muireann Irish out loud to somebody else — or to Teacher Smith in the lgStudy chat.

Frequently asked questions

What is Muireann Irish in simple terms?

Why does Muireann Irish matter?

Because it connects several biology ideas at once: it gives you a definition you can apply, a quantity you can calculate, and a way to check whether a result is plausible.

How should I study Muireann Irish?

Read the excerpt, restate it from memory, then work through the examples and applications listed on this page. The five-step study plan above takes about twenty minutes.

What does this page cover?

It gives you a compact reference excerpt plus original lgStudy explanations, examples, applications and study material on Muireann Irish.