Dr. Douglas Potter

Senior Lecturer

Contact Details:
Telephone: (+44)(1382) 384632
Email: Douglas Potter

Postal Address:
School of Psychology
The University of Dundee
Dundee
DD1 4HN
Scotland, UK

Biography

Dr Douglas Potter is a senior lecturer in the School of Psychology and is an honorary Clinical Research Scientist with NHS Tayside. His main research interest is in the basis of attention control which he studies in a wide range of populations (musicians, smokers, individuals diagnosed with autism, schizophrenia or head injury) using a variety of techniques including EEG, ERP and fMRI in the clinical research centre at ninewells hospital.

Current and recent projects:

Effects of mild head injury and concussion on attention and cognitive control in football and rugby players.
Attention control in Autism
Cognitive control in schizophrenia
Effects of drug withdrawal on attention control mechanism
Dynamics of attention control in music rhythm processing
Development of behavioural paradigms for translational medicine research
Multimodal imaging of cognitive function (EEG/ERP/fMRI)

Research Grouping

Neuroscience and Development

Research Topics

Dr. Douglas Potter. Attention and brain plasticity. Effects of closed head injury (including football heading) on cognitive function. Effects of abnormal brain development on cognition (autistic spectrum disorders). Music processing

Research Funding

Dr D.D. Potter SINAPSE studentship The role of cholinergic transmission in attention control 2010-12 £24,000

Dr D.D. Potter SINAPSE studentship Spatiotemporal imaging of attention orienting mechanisms 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

2007-2008 Dr D.D. Potter (PI), Dr Astrid Schloerscheidt, Dr Ben Tatler. Development of translational biomarkers of attention function. 2006-2007, TMRI Scotland, £111,000

1999-2004 'Is football heading a cause of neuropsychological impairment?' Wellcome Trust, £106,000 (With Dr A. Rutherford, Psychology Dept., Keele University)

2001-2004 'Diagnostic Markers for Autism and Asperger's Syndrome'. Roberston Trust, £21,000 (With Mr Simon Webster, M.Sc., Dept. of Psychology, University of Dundee)

2001-2004 'Diagnostic Markers for Autism and Asperger's Syndrome'. The Hugh Fraser Foundation, £12,000 (With Mr Simon Webster, M.Sc., Dept. of Psychology, University of Dundee)

2002-2003 'Effects of Head Injury on Attention Function' Tenovus Trust, £10,000 (With Dr Richard Roberts, Dept of Medicine, Tayside Universities Hospital Trust)

Publications


Links	Publications
	Webster, S. & Potter, D.D. (2011) Gaze perception develops atypically in children with autism. Child Development Research Volume 2011, Article ID 462389, 9 pages, doi:10.1155/2011/462389
	Stephens, R., Rutherford, A., Potter, D. & Fernie, G. (2010) 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 22(3) 295-303
	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. (2009) Do university footballers suffer neuropsychological impairment as a consequence of their football (soccer) play? Journal of Clinical and Experimental Neuropsychology, 31(6):664-681 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. ISSN: 0929-7049
	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., Sharpe, H., Basbinar, D., & Jory, S. (2000). Insights into the functional organization of music processing revealed using continuous across-subject event-related potential averaging. In Woods, C., Luck, G.B., Brochard, R., O'Neill, S. A., and Sloboda, J. A. (Eds.) Proceedings of the Sixth International Conference on Music Perception and Cognition. Keele, Staffordshire, UK: Department of Psychology. [Further information including Shockwave demonstrations.]
	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., 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.
	Potter, D.D. & Parker, D.M. (1997) Dissociation of event-related potential repetition effects in judgements of face identity and expression. Journal of Psychophysiology, 11, 287-303.
	Potter, D.D., Pickles, C.D., Roberts, R.C., Rugg, M.D., Paller, K.A. and Mayes, A.R. (1993) Visual and auditory P300 in a case of bilateral destruction of the medial temporal lobes following viral encephalitis. In H-J. Heinze, T F. Munte and G.R. Mangun (Eds) New Developments in Event-Related Potentials, Birkhauser, Boston.
	Rugg,M.D., Pickles,C.D., Potter,D.D., Doyle, M.C., Pentland, B. Roberts, R.C. (1993) Cognitive Brain Potentials in a Three-Stimulus Auditory 'Oddball' Task after Closed Head Injury. Neuropsychologia 31(4):373-393
	Ebmeier,K.P., Potter,D.D., Cochrane,R.H.B., Crawford,J.R., Stewart,L., Calder,S.A., Besson,J.A.O., Salzen,E.A. (1992) Event related potentials, reaction time, and cognitive performance in idiopathic Parkinson's disease. 33:73-89
	Potter,D.D., Pickles, C.D., Roberts, R.C. and Rugg, M.D. (1992) The effects of scopolamine on visual ERPs in a recognition memory task. 29:29-37
	Rugg,M.D., Roberts,R.C., Potter,D.D. Pickles,C.D. and Nagy M.E. (1991) Event-related potentials related to recognition memory: effects of unilateral temporal lobectomy and temporal lobe epilepsy. 114:2313-2332.
	Rugg,M.D., Pickles,C.D., Potter,D.D. and Roberts,R.C. (1991) Normal P300 following extensive damage to the left medial temporal lobe. 54:217-222
	Ebmeier,K.P., Potter,D.D., Cochrane,R.H.B., MacKenzie A.R., McAllister,H., Besson,J.A.O. and Salzen,E.A. (1990) P300 and Smooth Eye Pursuit: Concordance of abnormalities and relation to clinical features in DSM III schizophrenia. Acta Psychiatr Scand 82:283-288