Here are some key publications in various areas of expertise:
Automatic Attention Capture by Auditory Structural Features
Potter, R. F. (2000). The effects of voice changes on orienting and immediate cognitive overload in radio listeners. Media Psychology, 2 (2), 147-178. DOI: 10.1207/S1532785XMEP0202_3
Potter, R. F., Lang, A., & Bolls, P. D. (2008). Identifying structural features of audio: Orienting responses during radio messages and their impact on recognition. Journal of Media Psychology: Theories, Methods, and Applications, 20(4), 168-177. DOI: 10.1027/1864-1105.20.4.168
Potter, R. F., Lynch, T., & Krause, A. (2015). I’ve heard that before: Habituation of the orienting response follows repeated presentation of audio structural features in radio. Communication Monographs, 82 (1), 359-378. DOI: 10.1080/03637751.2015.1019529
Potter, R. F., Jamison-Koenig, E., Lynch, T., & Sites, J. (2016). Effect of vocal tonal difference on automatic attention to voice changes in audio messages. Communication Research 46(7), 1008-1025. https://doi.org/10.1177/0093650215623835
Lang, A., Gao, Y., Potter, R. F., Lee, S., Park, B., & Bailey, R. (2013). Conceptualizing audio message complexity as available resources. Communication Research (42), 759- 778. DOI:10.1177/0093650213490722
Pettie, L., Potter, R.F., Brewer, G., Dengo, F, Vachon, F., Hughes, R., Marsh, J. (2024). Warning—taboo words ahead! Avoiding attentional capture by spoken taboo distractors. Journal of Cognitive Psychology, 36(1), 61–77. https://doi.org/10.1080/20445911.2023.2285860
Music Cognition
Miksza, P., Tan, D., Potter, R.F., & Booth, M. (2024). The effect of aural and visual presentation formats on categorical and dimensional judgements of emotion for sung and spoken expressive performances. Music Perception 42 (2),109–123. https://doi.org/10.1525/mp.2024.42.2.109
Sites, J., & Potter, R. F. (2018). Everything merges with the game: A generative music system embedded in a videogame increases flow. Game Studies 18, available online.
Dillman Carpentier, F., & Potter, R. F. (2007). Effects of music on physiological arousal: Explorations into tempo & genre. Media Psychology, 10 (3), 339-363. https://doi.org/10.1080/15213260701533045
Advertising & Marketing Effects
Read, G., van Driel, I., & Potter, R. F. (2018) Bias level matters: Advertisements featuring same-sex couples affect physiological but not self-reported responses. Journal of Advertising 47, 182-197. https://doi.org/10.1080/00913367.2018.1452653
Lee, S. & Potter, R. F. (2018). The impact of emotional words on listeners’ cognitive and emotional responses in the context of advertising. Communication Research, 47(8), 1155–1180. https://doi.org/10.1177/0093650218765523
Rodero, E., Potter, R. F., & Prieto, P. (2017). Pitch range variations improves cognitive processing of audio messages. Human Communication Research (43): 397-413. http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/hcre.12109/full.
Bellman, S., Potter, R. F., Treleaven-Hassard, S., Robinson, J. A., & Varan, D. (2011). The effectiveness of branded mobile phone apps. Journal of Interactive Marketing 25 191-200. DOI: 10.1016/j.intmar.2011.06.001.
Research Methods
Potter, R.F., Ni., Y., & Marlet, R.Q. (2024). Four decades of biological measurement advancing mediated communication theory: A review of literature from 1980-2020. Annals of the International Communication Association, Volume 48(4), 415–435. https://doi.org/10.1080/23808985.2024.2391308
Minas, R., Dennis, A., Potter, R. F., & Kamhawi, R. (2018). Using neuroscience to inform information systems design: Changing individual cognition and electronic brainstorming through priming. Decision Sciences 45, 788-826. https://doi.org/10.1111/deci.12295
Koruth, J., Lang, A., Potter, R. F., & Bailey, R (2015). A comparative analysis of dynamic and static indicators of parasympathetic and sympathetic nervous system activation during TV viewing. Communication Methods and Measures (9), 78-100. DOI: 10.1080/19312458.2014.999752
Potter, R. F., Lee, S., & Rubenking, B. (2011). Correlating a motivation-activation measure with media preference. Journal of Broadcasting & Electronic Media 55 (3), 400-418. DOI: 10.1080/08838151.2011.597468
Lang, A., Kurita, S., Rubenking, B., & Potter, R. F. (2011). miniMAM: Validating a short version of the Motivation Activation Measure. Communication Methods & Measures, 5 (2), 146-162. DOI: 10.1080/19312458.2011.568377
Potter, R. F., & Lang, A. (2017). Audio message complexity: Audio content change (Acc) and audio information introduced (Aii). In D. Worthington & G. Brodie (Eds.), Sourcebook of listening research: Methodology and measures (pp. 198-203). Wiley Publishers.