Dr. Leigh Riby

Leigh joined the Division of Psychology as a senior lecturer in October 2007. He obtained his PhD in 2001 (on dual tasking in older adults) before moving on to Stirling to undertake a post-doctoral position investigating episodic memory using EEG and fMRI methodology.  More recently, Leigh held a lectureship at Glasgow Caledonian University. Leigh’s interests include 1) nutrition and mental performance, 2) cognitive ageing, 3) diabetes, 4) memory retrieval processes, 5) brain imaging techniques, 6) typical/atypical development & 7) music and cognition.

Personal Website: http://sites.google.com/site/drleighriby/

Selected Publications
2010

Brown, L.A., Riby, L.M., & Reay, J.L. (2010). Supplementing Cognitive Ageing: A selective review of the effects of everyday nutritional substances. Experimental Ageing Research, 36, 105-122.

2009

Riby, L.M., Marriott, A., Bullock, R., Hancock, J., Smallwood, J. & McLaughlin, J. (2009). The Effects of Glucose Ingestion and Glucose Regulation on Memory Performance in Older Adults with Mild Cognitive Impairment. European Journal of Clinical Nutrition, 63, 566–571.

Smith, M.A., Riby, L.M., Sünram-Lea, S.I., van Eekelen, J.A., Foster, J.K. (2009). Glucose modulates event-related potential components of recollection and familiarity in healthy adolescents. Psychopharmacology, 205, 11-20.

Riby, D. M., Riby, L. M., & Reay, J. (2009). Differential sensitivity to rotations of facial features in the Thatcher illusion. Psychological Reports, 105, 721 – 726.

2008

Riby, L.M., McLaughlin, J., Riby, D.M. & Graham, C. (2008). Lifestyle, glucose regulation and the cognitive effects of glucose load in middle-aged adults. British Journal of Nutrition, 100, 1128-1134.

Riby, L.M., Sunram-Lea, S., Graham, C., Foster, J., Cooper, T., Moodie, C. & Gunn, V.P. (2008). The P3b versus the P3a: An Event Related Potential Investigation of the Glucose Facilitation Effect. Journal of Psychopharmacology, 22, 486-492.

Riby, L.M., Smallwood, J. & Gunn, V. (2008). An event related potential investigation of processing style, strategy and retrieval from episodic memory. Psychological Reports, 102, 805-818.

2007

Caldwell, G. & Riby, L.M. (2007). The Effects of Music Exposure and Own Genre Preference on Conscious and Unconscious Cognitive Processes: A Pilot ERP study. Consciousness and Cognition, 6, 992-996.

2006

Riby, L.M., McMurtrie, H., Smallwood, J. & Smith, E. (2006). The impact of glucose ingestion, age and task difficulty on retrieval from episodic and semantic memory. British Journal of Nutrition, 95, 414–420.

Smallwood, J., Riby, L.M., Heim, D. & Davies, J.D. (2006). Encoding during the attentional lapse: Accuracy of encoding during the semantic sustained attention to response task. Consciousness and Cognition, 15, 218-31.

Riby, L. M. & Riby, D. M. (2006). Glucose, Ageing and Cognition: The Hippocampus Hypothesis. In S. Ballesteros (Ed.). Age, Cognition and Neuroscience. Madrid: UNED, Varia. Chapter 2.