Research Interests

Cognitive psychology; Memory; Spatial cognition.

General Information

Rosalind is a part-time Lecturer who has been teaching at Westminster since 2005 and currently teaches mainly cognitive and developmental psychology. She took her undergraduate degree at Magdalen College, Oxford, and went to University College London for postgraduate studies, funded by the Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC). Her research interests are primarily concerned with the effect of memory retrieval on longer term retention, but she is also collaborating with Mark Gardner on research into spatial cognition.

Publications

Gardner, M., & Potts, R. (2011). Domain general mechanisms account for imagined transformations of whole body perspective.  Acta Psychologica, 137(3), 371-381 

Potts, R., Law, R., Golding, J. F., & Groome, D. (2011). The reliability of individual differences in retrieval-induced forgetting. European Psychologist. DOI: 10.1027/1016-9040/a000040

Gardner, M., & Potts, R. (2010). Hand dominance influences the processing of observed bodies. Brain and Cognition, 73(1), 35 – 40.

Conference Presentations

Potts, R., & Shanks, D. R. (2011). Is generating errors helpful or harmful to subsequent retention? Paper to be presented at the 5th International Conference on Memory (ICOM5), York, July.

Gardner, M., & Potts, R. (2010). Hand Dominance influences Laterality Judgements for Observed Bodies.  EPS sponsored workshop on The Development of Body Representations, Goldsmiths College, London, March.

Gardner, M., & Potts, R. (2009) Domain general mechanisms in imagined transformations of the human body. Poster presented at the British Association for Cognitive Neuroscience meeting, London, September.

Potts, R., Law, R., Golding, J., & Groome, D. (2009). The reliability of retrieval-induced forgetting. Poster presented at the XVIth ESCoP conference, Krakow, September.

Potts, R., & Gardner, M. (2009). Evidence for domain general mechanisms in imagined spatial transformations of the human body. Poster presented at the XVIth ESCoP conference, Krakow, September.

Groome, D., Law, R., Potts, R., Buchanan, T., & Thorn, L. (2009). The relationship between retrieval-induced forgetting and personality. Paper presented at the XVIth ESCoP conference, Krakow, September.

Groome, D., Law, R., Buchanan, T., Potts, R., & Thorn, L. (2009). The relationship between anxiety, personality, and retrieval-induced forgetting. Paper presented at the STAR conference, Budapest, July.

Groome, D., Potts, R., & Golding, J. (2009). The reliability of retrieval-induced forgetting. Poster presented at the BPS conference, Brighton, April.

Gardner, M., & Potts, R. (2009). Evidence for domain general mechanisms in imagined spatial transformations of the human body. Poster presented at the BPS conference, Brighton, April.

Groome, D., Law, R., Potts, R., Buchanan, T., & Thorn, L. (2009). The relationship between personality and retrieval-induced forgetting. Paper presented at the BPS conference, Brighton, April.