Dr Kevin Riggs


Reader in Psychology School of Psychology Room 128, Calcutta House, City Campus Tel: 020 7320 1279 Fax: 020 7320 1236 Email: k.riggs@londonmet.ac.uk
	Children's Reasoning and the Mind Pete Mitchell, Kevin Riggs

Teaching Responsibilities

Developmental psychology

Research Interests

I am interested in cognition and development. Specific interests include:

The development of the executive functions and how they relate to children's thinking, learning and knowledge acquisition
The development of visual working memory
Subitizing in tactile perception
Theory of mind in children and adults

Publications since 2005

Beck, S.R & Riggs, K.J (in press). Multiple developments in counterfactual thinking. In C. Hoerl & T. McCormack (Eds). Understanding Counterfactuals/Understanding causation. Oxford University Press.

Beck, S. R. & Riggs, K. J. (in press). Counterfactual thinking and make-believe. In M. Taylor (Ed.) Oxford Handbook of the Development of Imagination. Oxford University Press.

Beck. S. R & Riggs. K. J. (2009). The effect of causal chain length on counterfactual conditional reasoning. British Journal of Developmental Psychology.

Beck. S. R & Riggs. K. J. (2009). Relating developments in children’s counterfactual thinking and executive functions. Thinking & Reasoning

Simpson, A. & Riggs, K. J. (2008) What makes reposes prepotent? Insights from the Grass-Snow task. Infant and Child Development

Riggs, K. J. & Beck, S. R. (2008) Thinking developmentally about counterfactual possibilities. Commentary on Byrne R. M. J (2005). Behavioral and Brain Sciences 30 (5) 463

Carroll, D., Apperly, I & Riggs, K. J. (2007) Choosing between two objects reduces 3-year-olds’ errors on a reverse-contingency test of executive function. Journal of Experimental Child Psychology, 98 (3) 184-192

Simpson, A. & Riggs, K. J. (2007) Under what conditions do children have difficulty inhibiting manual actions? Developmental Psychology 43 (2) 417-428

Carroll, D., Apperly, I & Riggs, K. J. (2007) The executive demands of strategic reasoning are modified by the way in which children are prompted to think about the task: Evidence from 3- to 4- year-olds. Cognitive Development 22 (1)142-148

Riggs, K. J., McTaggart, J. & Simpson, A. (2006) Changes in the capacity of visual working memory in 5- to 10- year-olds. Journal of Experimental Child Psychology 95 (1)18-26

Apperly, I., Riggs, K. J., Simpson, A., Chiavarino, C. & and Samson, D. (2006) Is belief reasoning automatic? Psychological Science17 (10) 841-844

Riggs, K.J., Ferrand, L., Lancelin, D., Fryziel, L., Dumur, G. & Simpson, A. (2006) Subitizing in tactile perception. Psychological Science 17 (4) 271-272

Simpson, A. & Riggs, K. J. (2006) Conditions under which young children experience inhibitory difficulty with a ‘button press’ go no-go task. Journal of Experimental Child Psychology 94 (1) 18-26

Riggs, K.J. (2005) Thinking harder about false belief. Trends in Cognitive Sciences, 9 (12)

Simpson, A. & Riggs, K. J. (2005) Factors responsible for performance on the day-night task:response set or semantics? Developmental Science 8 (4) 360-371

Simpson, A. & Riggs, K. J. (2005) Inhibitory and working memory demands of the day-night task in children. British Journal of Developmental Psychology 10 1-17

Grant, C, Boucher, J. & Riggs, K. J. (2005) Moral reasoning in children with autism. Autism

Riggs, K. J. & Simpson, A. (2005) Young children have difficulty ascribing true beliefs. Developmental Science 8 (3) 27-30