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Ian H. Robertson

Ian H. Robertson

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Psychology
Ireland
2026

D-Index & Metrics

Psychology

D-Index
100
Citations
34991
World Ranking
627
National Ranking
1

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2026 - Research.com Psychology in Ireland Leader Award
  • 2025 - Research.com Psychology in Ireland Leader Award
  • 2023 - Research.com Psychology in Ireland Leader Award
  • 2022 - Research.com Psychology in Ireland Leader Award
  • 2018 - Member of Academia Europaea
  • 2004 - Member of the Royal Irish Academy

Overview

Ian H. Robertson is affiliated with Trinity College Dublin in Ireland. Their research focuses extensively on neuroscience and medicine, with particular attention to cognitive neuroscience, neurology, psychiatry and mental health, physiology, and experimental and cognitive psychology.

The scientist's recent notable papers include:

  • Brain-predicted age difference score is related to specific cognitive functions: a multi-site replication analysis (2020) published in Brain Imaging and Behavior
  • Brain clocks capture diversity and disparities in aging and dementia across geographically diverse populations (2024) published in Nature Medicine
  • A Brain Capital Grand Strategy: toward economic reimagination (2020) published in Molecular Psychiatry
  • Verbal intelligence is a more robust cross-sectional measure of cognitive reserve than level of education in healthy older adults (2021) published in Alzheimer's Research & Therapy
  • The peripheral effect of direct current stimulation on brain circuits involving memory (2020) published in Science Advances

Frequent co-authors collaborating with Ian H. Robertson include:

  • Robert Whelan
  • Paul M. Dockree
  • Rory Boyle
  • Michael Christopher Melnychuk
  • Agustín Ibáñez

Ian H. Robertson publishes regularly in venues such as:

  • Preprints.org
  • Alzheimer's & Dementia
  • Nature Medicine
  • European Journal of Neuroscience
  • The Journal of Nutrition Health & Aging

The scientist's work covers main topics including:

  • Functional Brain Connectivity Studies
  • EEG and Brain-Computer Interfaces
  • Dementia and Cognitive Impairment Research
  • Neural dynamics and brain function
  • Health, Environment, Cognitive Aging
  • Neural and Behavioral Psychology Studies
  • Mental Health Research Topics

In addition to peer-reviewed articles, Ian H. Robertson has contributed to book publications, including a 2024 publication titled The Neurobiology of Values from Frontiers Media.

Throughout their career, Ian H. Robertson has received recognitions such as becoming a Member of the Academia Europaea in 2018 and a Member of the Royal Irish Academy in 2004.

Best Publications

  • 'Oops!': performance correlates of everyday attentional failures in traumatic brain injured and normal subjects

    Ian H Robertson;Tom Manly;Jackie Andrade;Bart T Baddeley

  • Pupil diameter covaries with BOLD activity in human locus coeruleus.

    Peter R. Murphy;Redmond G. O'Connell;Michael O'Sullivan;Ian H. Robertson

  • The differential assessment of children's attention: The Test of Everyday Attention for Children (TEA-Ch), normative sample and ADHD performance.

    Tom Manly;Vicki Anderson;Ian Nimmo-Smith;Anna Turner

  • Rehabilitation of executive functioning: an experimental-clinical validation of goal management training.

    Brian Levine;Ian H. Robertson;Linda Clare;Gina Carter

  • The absent mind: further investigations of sustained attention to response.

    Tom Manly;Ian H Robertson;Maria Galloway;Kari Hawkins

  • Rehabilitation of brain damage : Brain plasticity and principles of guided recovery

    Ian H. Robertson;Jaap M. J. Murre

  • Phasic alerting of neglect patients overcomes their spatial deficit in visual awareness

    Ian H. Robertson;Jason B. Mattingley;Chris Rorden;Chris Rorden;Jon Driver

  • The impact of cognitive training and mental stimulation on cognitive and everyday functioning of healthy older adults: a systematic review and meta-analysis.

    Michelle E. Kelly;David G. Loughrey;Brian A. Lawlor;Ian H. Robertson

  • Pupillometry and P3 index the locus coeruleus–noradrenergic arousal function in humans

    Peter R. Murphy;Ian H. Robertson;Joshua H. Balsters;Redmond G. O'connell

  • Unilateral Neglect : Clinical and Experimental Studies

    Ian H. Robertson;John C. Marshall

  • Executive Brake Failure following Deactivation of Human Frontal Lobe

    Christopher D. Chambers;Mark A. Bellgrove;Mark G. Stokes;Tracy R. Henderson

  • The structure of normal human attention: The Test of Everyday Attention

    Ian H. Robertson;Tony Ward;Valerie Ridgeway;Ian Nimmo-Smith

  • The impact of exercise on the cognitive functioning of healthy older adults: a systematic review and meta-analysis.

    Michelle E. Kelly;David G. Loughrey;Brian A. Lawlor;Ian H. Robertson

  • The role of cingulate cortex in the detection of errors with and without awareness: a high-density electrical mapping study.

    Redmond G. O'Connell;Paul M. Dockree;Paul M. Dockree;Mark A. Bellgrove;Simon P. Kelly;Simon P. Kelly

  • Sustained attention training for unilateral neglect: Theoretical and rehabilitation implications

    Ian H. Robertson;Richard Tegnér;Kerstin Tham;Ada Lo

  • Effects of attention and unilateral neglect on auditory stream segregation.

    Robert P. Carlyon;Rhodri Cusack;Jessica M. Foxton;Ian H. Robertson

  • Rehabilitation of executive function: facilitation of effective goal management on complex tasks using periodic auditory alerts.

    Tom Manly;Kari Hawkins;Kari Hawkins;Jon Evans;Karina Woldt

  • Executive “Brake Failure” following Deactivation of Human Frontal Lobe

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  • Investigating the enhancing effect of music on autobiographical memory in mild Alzheimer's disease.

    Muireann Irish;Conal J. Cunningham;J. Bernard Walsh;Davis Coakley

  • Rehabilitation of executive functioning in patients with frontal lobe brain damage with goal management training.

    Brian Levine;Tom A. Schweizer;Tom A. Schweizer;Charlene O'Connor;Gary Turner;Gary Turner

  • A topography of executive functions and their interactions revealed by functional magnetic resonance imaging.

    Catherine Fassbender;K. Murphy;J. J. Foxe;G. R. Wylie

Frequent Co-Authors

Redmond G O'Connell
Redmond G O'Connell Trinity College Dublin
Michael Gill
Michael Gill Trinity College Dublin
Tom Manly
Tom Manly MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit
Hugh Garavan
Hugh Garavan University of Vermont
Gordon Winocur
Gordon Winocur University of Toronto
Donald T. Stuss
Donald T. Stuss University of Toronto
Gary Donohoe
Gary Donohoe University of Galway
Brian Levine
Brian Levine University of Toronto
Rose Anne Kenny
Rose Anne Kenny Trinity College Dublin
Ziarih Hawi
Ziarih Hawi Monash University

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