Professor Kevin Riggs
| Biography | Kevin Riggs has research interests in cognition and development. He is particularly interested higher cognitive functions, including social and logical reasoning, imaginative thinking, the executive functions, and, more recently, language. His research has been funded by various universities as well as the Economic and Social Research Council, the NHS, the French Centre for scientific research (CNRS) and the European Science Foundation. He joined the University of Hull in 2011 after lecturing posts in Sheffield, Birmingham and London. |
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| Scopus Author ID | 8882267100 |
| PhD Supervision Availability | Yes |
| PhD Topics | Professor Riggs welcomes applications from students interested in word learning, action learning, tool use, theory of mind, and counterfactual thinking. Completed PhDs (as both 1st or 2nd supervisor) Dr Cathy Grant (1999) Autism and theory of mind Dr Andrew Simpson (2004) Cognitive development / inhibitory processing Dr Dan Carroll (2004) Cognitive development / executive functions Dr Helen Broadley (2011) Autism and Counseling Dr Amanda Holland (2014) Fast mapping / word learning Dr Sharon Cox (2014) Theory of mind and addiction Dr Iveta Eimontaite (2016) Neural correlates of decision making Dr Dane Rowley (2016) Moral & social reasoning in TBI patients Dr Erin Dysart (2016 ) Action & word learning Dr Jennifer Boland (2017) Hypothetical thinking in depression Dr Wan Ying Zhao (2017) Neural correlates of gesture processing Dr Ilse Coolen (2018) Mathematical cognition in children Dr Andrew Lucas (2020) Word learning in adults Dr Lee Parkin (2021) Neural correlates of spatial processing Current students Shamini Howshigan: Improving recycling behaviour Tom Peney: Cognitive processes in VR Alex Smith: Knowledge and belief processing Thomas Thompson: Automaticity of visual perspective-taking |