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Douglas D Potter

Senior Lecturer
Department of Psychology
University of Dundee

Research Interests

My main research interest is in the mechanisms underlying attention control including the role of working memory and emotion related learning in the modulation of attention selection processes. My research includes projects on the effects of closed head injury on attention function, development of translational biomarkers for use in studies of schizophrenia, Attention impairments in Autism. Effects of withdrawal from nicotine, caffeine and food on attention function and the effects of exercise on memory function. I also do some research on musical rhythm processing. I have participated in the TMRI initiative http://www.tmri.co.uk/ and I am participating in the SINAPSE imaging initiative http://www.sinapse.ac.uk/. We have state of the art facilities for carrying out EEG and ERP studies as well as fMRI. I recently organised the annual British Association of Cognitive Neuroscience meeting, University of Dundee, Dundee 29-31 August, 2007 http://www.dundee.ac.uk/psychology/external/bacn/index.htm

Recent health-related publications

Stephens, R., Rutherford, A., Potter, D. & Fernie, G. (In Press) Do UK school team (13-16 years) soccer players suffer neuropsychological impairment as a consequence of their soccer play? The Journal of Neuropsychiatry and Clinical Neurosciences

Potter, D.D., Fenwick, M., Abecasis, D., & Brochard, R. (2009) Perceiving rhythm where none exists: Event-related potential (ERP) correlates of subjective accenting. Cortex 45 (1), 103-109

Rutherford, A., Stephens, R., Fernie, G. & Potter, D.D. (2008 In Press) Do university footballers suffer neuropsychological impairment as a consequence of their football (soccer) play? Journal of Clinical and Experimental Neuropsychology, ISSN: 1380-3395

Webster, S. & Potter, D.D. (2008) Eye direction detection improves with development in autism. Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders 38 (6) 1184-1186

Stephens, R., Rutherford, A., Potter, D. & Fernie, G. (2005). Neuropsychological impairment as a consequence of football (soccer) play and football heading: A preliminary analysis and report on school students (13-16 years). Child Neuropsychology, 11, 1-14

Potter, D. & Keeling, D. (2005) Effects of Moderate Exercise and Diurnal Rhythms on Memory. Journal of Sports and Exercise Psychology, 27(1), 117-125

Rutherford, A., Stephens, R., Potter, D.D. & Fernie, G. (2005) Neuropsychological impairment as a consequence of football (soccer) play and football heading: Preliminary analyses and report on university footballers. Journal of Clinical and Experimental Neuropsychology, 27(3), 299-319

Brochard, R., Abecasis, D., Potter, D., Ragot, R. & Drake, C. (2003) The tick-tock of our internal clock: EEG evidence of subjective accents in isochronous sequences. Psychological Science, 14(4) 362-366

Rutherford, A., Stephens, R. & Potter, D.D. (2003). The Neuropsychology of Heading and Head Trauma in Assocation Football (Soccer). Neuropsychology Reviews, 13(3), 153-179

Potter, D.D., Jory, S.H. Bassett, M., Barrett, K. & Mychalkiw, W. (2002) Effect of mild head injury on event-related potential correlates of Stroop task performance. Journal of International Neuropsychology Society, 8, 828-837

Potter, D.D., Bassett M.R.A., Jory, S.H.& Barrett, K. (2001) Changes in event-related potentials in a three-stimulus auditory oddball task after mild head injury. Neuropsychologia, 39, 1464-1472

Potter, D.D., Pickles, C.D., Roberts, R.C. and Rugg, M.D. (2000) Scopolamine impairs memory performance and reduces frontal but not parietal visual P3 amplitude. Biological Psychology, 52, 37-52

Potter, D.D., Pickles, C.D., Roberts, R.C. and Rugg, M.D. (2000) The effect of cholinergic receptor blockade by scopolamine on memory performance and auditory P3. Journal of Psychophysiology, 14, 11-23

Potter, D.D. and Barrett, K. (1999) Assessment of mild head injury with event-related potentials and neuropsychological tasks. Journal of Psychophysiology, 13, 173-189

Current Grants

Dr D.D. Potter SINAPSE studentship 2009-12 £36,000

Dr D.D. Potter, Dr Astrid Schloerscheidt along with colleagues in Ninewells and St Andrews as participants in SINAPSE. Funding for fMRI visual and auditory stimulation system with combined eye-tracking and 64 Channel EEG system. 2008 ~£90,000

Dr D.D. Potter (PI), Dr Astrid Schloerscheidt, Dr Ben Tatler. Development of translational biomarkers of attention function. 2006-2009, Wyeth, £111,000.

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