Curriculum Vitae

August 2021

Contact information

Mass General Brigham
Center for Addiction Medicine
101 Merrimac Street
Boston, MA 02114
Email: kevin.w.potter@gmail.com

Professional employment

• 05/2018 - Present
  • Massachusetts General Hospital, Center for Addiction Medicine, Research Fellow
• 01/2018 - 03/2018
  • University of Massachusetts Amherst, Department of Psychological and Brain Sciences, Researcher
• 04/2015 - 12/2017
  • University of Massachusetts Amherst, Department of Psychological and Brain Sciences, Post-doctoral researcher

Education

• 01/2012 - 05/2015
  • Ph.D., Ohio State University, Quantitative Psychology
• 09/2009 - 12/2011
  • M.A., Ohio State University, Quantitative Psychology
• 08/2005 - 05/2009
  • B.A., Grinnell College, Psychology

Research specialization

• Cognitive modeling
• Decision making and response times
• Bayesian statistics
• Psychometrics

Publications

• Jacob, L. P. L., Potter, K. W., & Huber, D. E. (2021). A neural habituation account of the negative compatibility effect. Journal of Experimental Psychology: General. Advance online publication. https://doi.org/10.1037/xge0001055
• Schnitzer, K., Cather, C., Potter, K., Kaba, H., Marsden, J., Hoffman, D., & Shtasel, D. (2021). For homeless people with serious mental illness, can a state transitional shelter promote racial equity in housing outcomes? Journal of Health Care for the Poor and Undeserved, 31, 232-244. https://doi.org/10.1353/hpu.2021.0021
• Schuster, R. M., Potter, K., Lamberth, E., Rychik, N., Hareli, M., Allen, S., Broos, H. C., Mustoe, A., Gilman, J. M., Pachas, G., & Evins, A. E. (2020). Alcohol substitution during one month of cannabis abstinence among non-treatment seeking youth. Progress in Neuro-Psychopharmacology and Biological Psychiatry, 107, 110205. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.pnpbp.2020.110205
• Schuster, R. M., Potter, K., Vandrey, R., Hareli, M., Gilman, J., Schoenfeld, D., & Evins, A. E. (2020). Urinary 11-nor-9-carboxy-tetrahydrocannabinol elimination in adolescent and young adult cannabis users during one month of sustained and biochemically-verified abstinence. Journal of Psychopharmacology, 34, 197-210. https://doi.org/10.1177/0269881119872206
• Yeh, C. L., Levar, N., Broos, H. C., Dechert, A., Potter, K., Eden, A. E., & Gilman, J. M. (2020). White matter integrity differences associated with post-traumatic stress disorder are not normalized by concurrent marijuana use. Psychiatry Research: Neuroimaging, 295, 111017. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.pscychresns.2019.111017
• Gilman, J. M., Yücel, M. A., Pachas G. N., Potter, K., Levar, N., Broos, H., Manghis, E. M., Schuster, R. M., & Evins A. E. (2019). Delta-9-tetrahydrocannabinol intoxication is associated with increased prefrontal activation as assessed with functional near-infrared spectroscopy: A report of a potential biomarker of intoxication. Neuroimage, 197, 575-585. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.neuroimage.2019.05.012
• Stangl, B. L., Schuster, R. M., Schneider, A., Dechert, A., Potter, K. W., Hareli, M., Mahmud, F., Yalin, E. R., Ramchandan, V. A., & Gilman, J. M. (2019). Suggestibility is associated with alcohol self-administration, subjective alcohol effects, and self-reported drinking behavior. Journal of psychopharmacology, 33, 769-778. https://doi.org/10.1177/0269881119827813
• Kunkel, D., Potter, K., Craigmile, P. F., Peruggia, M., & Van Zandt, T. (2019). A Bayesian race model for response times under cyclic stimulus discriminability. The Annals of Applied Statistics, 13, 271-296. https://doi.org/10.1214/18-AOAS1192
• Sadil, P., Potter, K. W., Huber, D. E., & Cowell, R. A. (2019). Connecting the dots without top-down knowledge: Evidence for rapidly-learned low-level associations that are independent of object identity. Journal of Experimental Psychology: General, 148, 1058-1070. https://psycnet.apa.org/record/2019-24865-001
• Huber, D. E., Potter, K. W., & Huzsar, L. D. (2019). Less “story” and more “reliability” in cognitive neuroscience. Cortex, 113, 347–349. https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0010945218304416?via%3Dihub
• Wilson, D. M., Potter, K. W., & Cowell, R. A. (2018). Recognition memory shielded from semantic but not perceptual interference in normal aging. Neuropsychologia, 119, 448-463. https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0028393218304081
• Cowell, R., Sadil, P., Potter, K., & Huber, D. (2018). Implicit visual recollection: Connecting the dots without top-down knowledge. Journal of Vision, 18, 410. https://jov.arvojournals.org/article.aspx?articleid=2699402
• Potter, K. W., Huszar, H., & Huber, D. E. (2018). Does inhibition cause forgetting after selective retrieval? A reanalysis and failure to replicate. Cortex, 104, 26-45. https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0010945218301072
• Potter, K., Donkin, C., & Huber, D. E. (2018). The elimination of positive priming with increasing prime duration reflects a transition from perceptual fluency to disfluency rather than bias against primed words. Cognitive Psychology, 101, 1-28. https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0010028517303225
• Kim, S., Potter, K., Craigmile, P. F., Peruggia, M., & Van Zandt, T. (2017). A Bayesian race model for recognition memory. Journal of the American Statistical Association, 112, 77-91. https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/01621459.2016.1194844

Conference presentations

• Sadil, P., Potter, K. W., Huber, D. E., & Cowell, R. A. (2017). A hierarchical Bayesian approach to state trace analysis with application to implicit visual memory. 50th Annual meeting of the Society for Mathematical Psychology Meeting, University of Warwick, UK.
• Sadil, P., Potter, K. W., Huber, D. E., & Cowell, R. A. (2017). A continuous flash suppression study of implicit visual recollection. Context and Episodic Memory Symposium, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
• Potter, K. W., Donkin, C., & Huber, D. E. (2017). Testing a perceptual fluency/disfluency model of priming with a model of response time and choice. Annual Meeting of the Society of Experimental Psychologists (SEP), Nashville, TN.
• Potter, K., Donkin, C., & Huber, D. E. (2016). Using reaction time modeling of forced-choice and same-different perceptual decisions to test a race model of priming. 49th Annual Meeting of the Society for Mathematical Psychology, New Brunswick, New Jersey.
• Wilson, D. M., Potter, K., & Cowell, R. A. (2016). A representational hierarchical account of recognition memory: Paradoxical shielding from semantic interference in natural aging. Psychonomic Society’s 57th Annual Meeting, Boston, Massachusetts.
• Potter, K. W. & Huber, D. E. (2016). Cortical pattern suppression does not cause forgetting. Festschrift for Jeroen, G. W. Raaijmakers, Amsterdam, The Netherlands.
• Huber, D. E. & Potter, K. W. (2015). Does learning or unlearning cause forgetting? Context and Episodic Memory Symposium, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
• Potter, K. & Van Zandt, T. (2015). Perfectionism, decision-making, and post-error slowing. Psychonomic Society’s 56th Annual Meeting, Chicago, Illinois.
• Kim, Sungmin, Potter, K., Craigmile, P.F., Peruggia, M. & Van Zandt, T. (2014). A Bayesian race model to decompose recognition memory performance. 47th Annual Meeting of the Society for Mathematical Psychology, Quebec City, Quebec.

Fellowships

• 05/2014 - 08/2014
  • Summer Teaching Excellence Fellowship, The Ohio State University
• 08/2013 - 05/2014
  • Graduate Teaching Assistant Excellence Award, The Ohio State University
• 09/2010 - 09/2011
  • Psychology Department Fellowship Recipient, The Ohio State University
• 09/2009 - 09/2010
  • University Fellowship Recipient, The Ohio State University

Educational activities

• Teaching Assistant, Ohio State University
  • Introduction to Bayesian Statistics for Psychological Data} (Graduate), 15 students. Guest lecturer; Created and graded homework.
  • Covariance Structure Models (Graduate), 30 students. Made supplementary notes on statistical software; Graded homework.
  • Fundamentals of Item Response Theory (Graduate), 9 students. Graded homework.
  • Correlational Analysis (Graduate), 34 students. Held weekly recitations; Created and graded homework.
  • Analysis of Variance (Graduate), 40 students. Held weekly recitations; Created and graded homework.
  • Statistics in Psychology (Graduate), 36 students. Graded homework.
  • Quantitative and Statistical Methods (Undergraduate), 3 quarters, 50 students per section. Held weekly recitations; Graded homework assignments.
  • Data Analysis in Psychology (Undergraduate), 118 students. Held weekly recitations; Created and graded homework.

Programming fluency

Analytic software: R, Stan, Matlab, SAS.
Programming languages: C++, Python.
Experiment design: Opensesame, Cogsys, Psychtoolbox.
Document preparation: LaTeX