Dr 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
- Joshua Plant (2019) Perspective taking in autism (MSc)
- Dr Andrew Lucas (2020) Word learning in adults
- Dr Lee Parkin (2021) Neural correlates of spatial processing
Current students
- Tom Peney (2021-2024) Cognitive processes in VR