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Psychology
Ireland
2026

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Neuroscience

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63
Citations
16991
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14

Psychology

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63
Citations
16127
World Ranking
3110
National Ranking
4

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2026 - Research.com Psychology in Ireland Leader Award
  • 2025 - Research.com Psychology in Ireland Leader Award

Overview

Robert Whelan is affiliated with Trinity College Dublin in Ireland and contributes extensively to research primarily in the fields of neuroscience and medicine. Their work spans a broad range of topics with a focus on cognitive neuroscience, psychiatry and mental health, clinical psychology, experimental and cognitive psychology, and radiology, nuclear medicine, and imaging.

The scientist's research encompasses various main topics including functional brain connectivity studies, mental health research topics, advanced neuroimaging techniques and applications, child and adolescent psychosocial and emotional development, health, environment and cognitive aging, neural and behavioral psychology studies, as well as dementia and cognitive impairment research.

Some of the recent papers authored or co-authored by Robert Whelan include:

  • Association of Cannabis Use During Adolescence With Neurodevelopment (2021) published in JAMA Psychiatry
  • Brain-predicted age difference score is related to specific cognitive functions: a multi-site replication analysis (2020) published in Brain Imaging and Behavior
  • Cognitive and brain development is independently influenced by socioeconomic status and polygenic scores for educational attainment (2020) published in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
  • A comparison of resting state EEG and structural MRI for classifying Alzheimer's disease and mild cognitive impairment (2020) published in NeuroImage
  • Development of Proteomic Prediction Models for Transition to Psychotic Disorder in the Clinical High-Risk State and Psychotic Experiences in Adolescence (2020) published in JAMA Psychiatry

The scientist frequently collaborates with several other researchers, including:

  • Frauke Nees
  • Tobias Banaschewski
  • Sylvane Desrivières
  • Michael N. Smolka
  • Andreas Heinz

Robert Whelan's work is commonly published in journals such as bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory), Molecular Psychiatry, Biological Psychiatry, Nature Communications, and NeuroImage.

Best Publications

  • FASTER: Fully Automated Statistical Thresholding for EEG artifact Rejection.

    H. Nolan;R. Whelan;R.B. Reilly

  • Effective Analysis of Reaction Time Data.

    Robert Whelan

  • A consensus guide to capturing the ability to inhibit actions and impulsive behaviors in the stop-signal task

    Frederick Verbruggen;Adam R. Aron;Guido Ph Band;Christian Beste

  • The genetic architecture of the human cerebral cortex

    Katrina L. Grasby;Neda Jahanshad;Jodie N. Painter;Lucía Colodro-Conde

  • Characterizing a psychiatric symptom dimension related to deficits in goal-directed control

    Claire M Gillan;Claire M Gillan;Michal Kosinski;Robert Whelan;Elizabeth A Phelps;Elizabeth A Phelps;Elizabeth A Phelps

  • Adolescent impulsivity phenotypes characterized by distinct brain networks.

    Robert Whelan;Patricia J Conrod;Patricia J Conrod;Jean-Baptiste Poline;Anbarasu Lourdusamy

  • Neuropsychosocial profiles of current and future adolescent alcohol misusers

    Robert Whelan;Robert Whelan;Richard Watts;Catherine A. Orr;Robert R. Althoff

  • The Brain’s Response to Reward Anticipation and Depression in Adolescence: Dimensionality, Specificity, and Longitudinal Predictions in a Community-Based Sample

    Argyris Stringaris;Pablo Vidal-Ribas Belil;Eric Artiges;Hervé Lemaitre

  • The Acceptance and Action Questionnaire-II (AAQ-II) as a measure of experiential avoidance: Concerns over discriminant validity

    Ian Tyndall;Daniel Waldeck;Luca Pancani;Robert Whelan

  • The structure of psychopathology in adolescence and its common personality and cognitive correlates.

    Natalie Castellanos-Ryan;Frédéric N. Brière;Maeve O'Leary-Barrett;Tobias Banaschewski

  • When Optimism Hurts: Inflated Predictions in Psychiatric Neuroimaging

    Robert Whelan;Hugh Garavan

  • Human subcortical brain asymmetries in 15,847 people worldwide reveal effects of age and sex

    Tulio Guadalupe;Samuel R. Mathias;Theo G.M. vanErp;Christopher D. Whelan;Christopher D. Whelan

  • Early Cannabis Use, Polygenic Risk Score for Schizophrenia and Brain Maturation in Adolescence

    Leon French;Courtney Gray;Gabriel Leonard;Michel Perron;Michel Perron

  • Quantifying performance of machine learning methods for neuroimaging data.

    Lee Jollans;Rory Boyle;Eric Artiges;Tobias Banaschewski

  • The transformation of consequential functions in accordance with the relational frames of same and opposite.

    Robert Whelan;Dermot Barnes-Holmes

  • Neural and cognitive correlates of the common and specific variance across externalizing problems in young adolescence.

    Natalie Castellanos-Ryan;Maren Struve;Robert Whelan;Tobias Banaschewski

  • Association of Cannabis Use During Adolescence With Neurodevelopment.

    Matthew D Albaugh;Jonatan Ottino-Gonzalez;Amanda Sidwell;Claude Lepage

  • Derived Stimulus Relations, Semantic Priming, and Event-Related Potentials: Testing a Behavioral Theory of Semantic Networks

    Dermot Barnes-Holmes;Carmel Staunton;Robert Whelan;Robert Whelan;Yvonne Barnes-Holmes

  • Temporal Discrimination Threshold: VBM evidence for an endophenotype in adult onset primary torsion dystonia

    D. Bradley;D. Bradley;R. Whelan;R. Whelan;R. Walsh;R. B. Reilly

  • Transformation of Avoidance Response Functions in Accordance with Same and Opposite Relational Frames.

    Simon Dymond;Bryaan Roche;John P. Forsyth;Robert Whelan

  • Citation Analysis of Skinner’s Verbal Behavior: 1984–2004

    Simon Dymond;Denis O'Hora;Robert Whelan;Aoife O'Donovan

Frequent Co-Authors

Herta Flor
Herta Flor Heidelberg University
Gunter Schumann
Gunter Schumann King's College London
Hugh Garavan
Hugh Garavan University of Vermont
Luise Poustka
Luise Poustka University of Göttingen
Frauke Nees
Frauke Nees Kiel University
Tobias Banaschewski
Tobias Banaschewski Heidelberg University
Jean-Luc Martinot
Jean-Luc Martinot École Normale Supérieure Paris-Saclay
Arun L.W. Bokde
Arun L.W. Bokde Trinity College Dublin
Penny A. Gowland
Penny A. Gowland University of Nottingham

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