Professor Ian H. Robertson
Professor
Ian H. Robertson, PhD, MRIA, FBPsS studied psychology at Glasgow
University, and completed his
postgraduate studies at University of London. He also worked in
Edinburgh and Rome Universities, before moving to the MRC Cognition and
Brain Sciences Unit in Cambridge, where he was also a Fellow of Hughes
Hall, University of Cambridge. He is Professor of Psychology at Trinity
College since 1999, a founding director of the Trinity College
Institute of Neuroscience and is Dean of Research for Trinity College
Dublin.
Ian has visiting professorships at a number of
institutions
including University College London, University of Padova, University
of Toronto and University of Wales. His research on neuropsychology,
neurogenetics, rehabilitation and brain plasticity is published in over
a hundred scientific books and articles, as well as a number of popular
science books, including
Mind Sculpture: Unlocking Your Brain’s Untapped Potential
and
Opening the Mind’s Eye: How Images and Language Teach Us How To
See. He was
recently elected a Member of the Royal Irish Academy.
He is the author of
Spatial Neglect: A Clinical Handbook for Diagnosis and
Treatment and
Compensations for brain deficits:
“Every cloud…”, coedited
Cognitive Neurorehabilitation, and coauthored
Phasic alerting of neglect patients overcomes their spatial deficit
invisual awareness,
Rehabilitation of brain damage: brain plasticity and principles of
guided recovery,
Effects of Attention and Unilateral Neglect on Auditory Stream
Segregation,
Association between dopamine transporter (DAT1) genotype, left-sided
inattention, and an enhanced response to methylphenidate in attention
deficit
hyperactivity disorder (ADHD),
and
When a rubber hand ‘feels’ what the real hand cannot.
Read his
full list of publications!