Dr. Jodie M. Plumert
Professor & Associate Chair
The University of Iowa
Department of Psychology
11 SSH East
The University of Iowa
Iowa City, IA 52242
Phone: (319) 335-2477
E-mail address: jodie-plumert@uiowa.edu
WWW address: www.psychology.uiowa.edu
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Kalamazoo College, 1985, Psychology, B.A.
University of Minnesota, 1990, Child Psychology, Ph.D.
Member, Iowa Center for Developmental and Learning Sciences, 2007-present
Associate Chair, Department of Psychology, University of Iowa, 2006-present
Professor, University of Iowa, 2004-present
Visiting Associate Professor, University of Michigan, Spring 2003
Associate Professor, University of Iowa, 1996-2004
Assistant Professor, University of Iowa, 1990-1996
Fellow, American Psychological Association (Division 7)
University of Iowa Faculty Scholar Award, 2000-2003
University of Minnesota Graduate School Doctoral Dissertation Fellowship, 1988-89
National Research Service Award: Center for Research in Learning, Perception, and Cognition; University of Minnesota (NICHD-07151), 1985-88
Magna cum laude, Kalamazoo College
Phi Beta Kappa
Association for Women in Science
Association for Psychological Science
American Psychological Association
Society for Research in Child Development
Psychonomic Society
Cognitive Development Society
PUBLICATIONS:
Babu, S., Grechkin, T., Chihak, B., Ziemer, C., Kearney, J., Cremer, J., & Plumert, J. (in press). An immersive virtual peer for studying social influences on child cyclists’ road-crossing behavior. IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics.
Ziemer, C., Plumert, J. M., Cremer, J., & Kearney, K. (2009). Estimating distance in real and virtual environments: Does order make a difference? Attention, Perception, & Psychophysics, 71, 1095-1106.
Oakes, L. M., Newcombe, N. S., & Plumert, J. M. (2009). Are dynamic systems and connectionist approaches an alternative to “Good Old Fashioned Cognitive Development?” In J. P. Spencer, M. Thomas, & J. McClelland (Eds.), Toward a unified theory of development: Connectionism and dynamic systems theory re-considered. New York: Oxford University Press.
Recker, K. M., & Plumert, J. M. (2008). How do opportunities to view objects together in time influence children’s memory for location? Journal of Cognition and Development, 9, 434-460.
Plumert, J. M. (2008). Children’s thinking is not just about what’s in the head: Understanding the organism and environment as a unified system. In R. V. Kail (Ed.), Advances in Child Development and Behavior, pp. 373- 417. San Diego, CA: Academic Press.
Plumert, J. M., & Spencer, J. (Eds.) (2007). The emerging spatial mind. New York: Oxford University Press.
Plumert, J. M., Hund, A. M., & Recker, K. M. (2007). Organism-environment interaction in spatial development: Explaining categorical bias in memory for location. In J. M. Plumert & J. Spencer (Eds.), The emerging spatial mind. New York: Oxford University Press.
Spencer, J. P., & Plumert, J. M. (2007). What makes thinking about development so hard? In J. M. Plumert & J. Spencer (Eds.), The emerging spatial mind. New York: Oxford University Press.
Plumert, J. M., & Nichols-Whitehead, P. (2007). Developmental differences in preferences for using color, size, and location information to disambiguate hiding places. Journal of Cognition and Development, 427-454.
Recker, K. M., Plumert, J. M., Hund, A. M., & Reimer, R. (2007). How do biases in spatial memory change as children and adults are learning locations? Journal of Experimental Child Psychology, 98, 217-232.
Plumert, J. M., Kearney, J. K., & Cremer, J. F. (2007). Children’s road crossing: A window into perceptual-motor development. Current Directions in Psychological Science, 16, 255-258.
Hund, A. M., & Plumert, J. M. (2007). What counts as “by?” Young children’s use of relative distance to judge nearbyness. Developmental Psychology, 43, 121-133.
Plumert, J. M., Kearney, J. K., Cremer, J. F., & Recker, K. (2005). Distance perception in real and virtual environments. ACM Transactions on Applied Perception, 2, 216-233.
Hund, A. M., & Plumert, J. M. (2005). The stability and flexibility of spatial categories. Cognitive Psychology, 50, 1-44.
Plumert, J. M., Kearney, J. K., & Cremer, J. F. (2004). Children’s perception of gap affordances: Bicycling across traffic-filled intersections in an immersive virtual environment. Child Development, 75, 1243-1253.
Kannass, K. N., Plumert, J. M., McDermott, J., Moore, B., & Durich, N. (2004). The role of the physical context in supporting young children’s use of spatiotemporal organization in recall. British Journal of Developmental Psychology, 22, 59-82.
Plumert, J. M. (2004). Accidents. In A. J. Christensen, R. Martin, & J. M. Smyth (Eds.), Encyclopedia of Health Psychology. New York: Kluwer Academic/Plenum Publishers.
Hund, A. M., & Plumert, J. M. (2003). Does information about what objects are influence children’s memory for where objects are? Developmental Psychology, 39, 939-948.
Schwebel, D. C., Binder, S. C., Sales, J. M., & Plumert, J. M. (2003). Is there a link between children’s motor abilities and unintentional injuries? Journal of Safety Research, 34, 135-141.
Plumert, J. M. (2003). Children's overestimation of their physical abilities: Links to injury proneness. In G. Savelsbergh, K. Davids, J. van der Kamp, & S. Bennett (Eds.), Development of movement coordination in children: Applications in the field of ergonomics, health sciences and sport. New York: Routledge.
Oakes, L. M., & Plumert, J. M. (2002). Variability in thirteen-month-old infants’ touching patterns in the sequential-touching task. Infant Behavior and Development, 25, 529-549.
Schwebel, D. C., Dawes, B. A., & Plumert, J. M. (2002). Using an injury diary to describe the ecology of children's daily injuries. Journal of Safety Research, 33, 301-319.
Hund, A. M., Plumert, J. M., & Benney, C. (2002). Experiencing nearby locations together in time: The role of spatial-temporal contiguity in children’s memory for location. Journal of Experimental Child Psychology, 82, 200-225.
Hund, A. M., & Plumert, J. M. (2002). Delay-induced bias in children's memory for location. Child Development, 73, 829-840.
Nichols-Whitehead, P., & Plumert, J. M. (2001). The influence of boundaries on young children's searching and gathering. Journal of Cognition and Development, 2, 367-388.
Plumert, J. M., Spalding, T. L., & Nichols-Whitehead, P. (2001). Preferences for ascending and descending hierarchical organization in spatial communication. Memory & Cognition, 29, 274-284.
Plumert, J. M., & Hund, A. M. (2001). The development of memory for location: What role do spatial prototypes play? Child Development, 72, 370-384.
Plumert, J. M., & Hawkins, A. M. (2001). Biases in young children’s communication about spatial relations: Containment versus proximity. Child Development, 72, 22-36.
Schwebel, D. C., Plumert, J. M., & Pick, H. L. (2000). Integrating basic and applied developmental research: A new model for the twenty-first century. Child Development, 71, 222-230.
Schwebel, D. C., & Plumert, J. M. (1999). Longitudinal and concurrent relations between temperament, ability estimation, and accident proneness. Child Development, 70, 700-712.
Plumert, J. M., & Schwebel, D. C. (1997). Social and temperamental influences on children’s overestimation of their physical abilities: Links to accident proneness. Journal of Experimental Child Psychology, 67, 317-337.
Plumert, J. M., & Strahan, D. (1997). Relations between task structure and developmental changes in children’s use of spatial clustering strategies. British Journal of Developmental Psychology, 15, 495-514.
Oakes, L. M., Plumert, J. M., Lansink, J. M., & Merryman, J. D. (1996). Evidence for task-dependent categorization in infancy. Infant Behavior and Development, 19, 425-440.
Plumert, J. M. (1996). Young children’s ability to detect ambiguity in descriptions of location. Cognitive Development, 11, 375-396.
Plumert, J. M., & Nichols-Whitehead, P. (1996). Parental scaffolding of young children’s spatial communication. Developmental Psychology, 32, 523-532.
Plumert, J. M. (1995). Relations between children’s overestimation of their physical abilities and accident proneness. Developmental Psychology, 31, 866-876.
Plumert, J. M., Carswell, C., DeVet, K., & Ihrig, D. (1995). The content and organization of communication about object locations. Journal of Memory and Language, 34, 477-498.
Plumert, J. M., Ewert, K., & Spear, S. J. (1995). The early development of children's communication about nested spatial relations. Child Development, 66, 959-969.
Plumert, J. M. (1994). Flexibility in children’s use of spatial and categorical organizational strategies in recall. Developmental Psychology, 30, 738-747.
Plumert, J. M., Pick, H. L., Jr., Marks, R. A., Kintsch, A. S., & Wegesin, D. (1994). Locating objects and communicating about locations: Organizational differences in children’s searching and direction-giving. Developmental Psychology, 30, 443-453.
Plumert, J. M. (1993). The development of children’s spatial knowledge: Implications for geographic education. Cartographic Perspectives, 16, 9-18.
Craton, L. G., Elicker, J., Plumert, J. M., & Pick, H. L., Jr. (1990). Children’s use of frames of reference in communication of spatial location. Child Development, 61, 1528-1543.
Sancilio, M. F. M., Plumert, J. M., & Hartup, W. W. (1989). Friendship and aggressiveness as determinants of conflict outcomes in middle childhood. Developmental Psychology, 25, 812-819.
Plumert, J., Kearney, J., and Cremer, J. (2007) How does traffic density influence cyclists gap choices? Proceedings of 2007 Int'l Conference on Road Safety and Simulation, November, Rome.
Kearney, K. K., Grechkin, T., Cremer, J. F., & Plumert, J. M. (2006). Traffic generation for studies of gap acceptance. Driving Simulation Conference, DSC 2006, Paris, France, 177-186.
Plumert, J. M., Kearney, J. K., and Cremer, J. F. (2004). Distance perception in real and virtual environments. Proceedings of the 1st Symposium on Applied Perception in Graphics and Visualization, August 7-8, Los Angeles.
Plumert, J. M. (2002). Pointing the way: An interactionist perspective on spatial development. Contemporary Psychology, 47, 535-538. [Review of Newcombe, N., & Huttenlocher, J. (2000) Making Space: The development of spatial representation and reasoning]
Pick, H. L., Jr., Plumert, J. M., & Arterberry, M. E. (1987). All-terrain vehicles and children: Perceptual-motor, cognitive, and social risk factors. Report prepared for the Consumer Product Safety Commission (Contract No. CPSC-C-87-1289).
“Advancing Virtual Environments as Laboratories for Studying Human Behavior” Joseph Kearney (P.I.), James Cremer (C.I.), & Jodie M. Plumert (C.I.), National Science Foundation, 4/1/08 – 3/31/10, $200,420 in direct costs (CNS-0750677).
“How Do Child Cyclists Make Decisions About Crossing Traffic-Filled Intersections?” Jodie M. Plumert (P.I.), Joseph Kearney (C.I.), & James Cremer (C.I.), National Center for Injury Prevention and Control/ Centers for Disease Control and Prevention through the UI Injury Prevention Research Center (Corrine Peak-Asa, P.I.), 9/1/2007-8/31/2012, $164,716 in direct costs (R49/CE001167).
“How Do Immature Perceptual-Motor Skills Put Child Cyclists at Risk for Injury?” Jodie M. Plumert (P.I.), Joseph K. Kearney (C.I.), & James F. Cremer (C.I.), National Institute of Child Health and Human Development, 4/1/2006-3/31/2011, $1,037,500 in direct costs (R01-HD052875).
“REU Supplement: Memory for Location: Changes over Learning and Development” Jodie M. Plumert (P.I.), National Science Foundation, 8/11/05-8/10/06, $12,000 in direct costs (BCS-0538719).
“Memory for Location: Changes over Learning and Development” Jodie M. Plumert (P.I.), National Science Foundation, 8/1/04-7/31/09, $217,756 in direct costs (BCS-0343034).
"Temperament as a Risk Factor for Bicycling Injuries" Jodie M. Plumert (P.I.), Joseph Kearney (C.I.), & James Cremer (C.I.), National Center for Injury Prevention and Control/ Centers for Disease Control and Prevention through the UI Injury Prevention Research Center (Craig Zwerling, P.I.), 9/1/03-8/31/07, $231,525 in direct costs (R49/CCR721682).
“Instrumentation for a Virtual Environment Laboratory to Study Human Behavior” James Cremer (P.I.), Joseph Kearney (Co-P.I.), & Jodie Plumert (Co-P.I.), National Science Foundation, 9/15/01-9/14/04, $100,000 ($66,667 NSF; $33,333 UI) in direct costs (EIA-0130864).
“Virtual Environments as Laboratories for Studying Human Behavior: Modeling, Testing, and Validation” Joseph Kearney (P.I.), James Cremer (Co-P.I), & Jodie Plumert (Co-P.I), National Science Foundation, 10/1/00-9/30/03, $354,174 in direct costs (IIS 00-02535).
“The Development of Memory for Object Locations” Jodie M. Plumert (P.I.), National Institute of Child Health and Human Development, 7/1/1998-6/30/2000, $100,000 in direct costs (R03-HD36761).
Plumert, J. M. Categorical bias in spatial memory: The case for emergence. Colloquium presentation in the Department of Psychology, Colby College, Waterville, ME, September 25, 2009.
Plumert, J. M. Categorical bias in spatial memory: The case for emergence. Space, Analogy, and Language Learning seminar presentation, Northwestern University, November 18, 2008.
Plumert, J. M. The development of spatial communication: Understanding proximity relations. Spatial Intelligence and Learning Center (SILC) seminar presentation, University of Chicago and Northwestern University, November 17, 2008.
Plumert, J. M. How do immature perceptual and cognitive skills put child cyclists at risk for injury? Colloquium presentation in the Department of Psychology, Illinois State University, Bloomington-Normal, IL February 15, 2008.
Plumert, J. M. Remembering spatial categories: Changes over learning and development. Cognitive Area brown bag presentation in the Department of Psychology, University of Illinois, Champaign-Urbana, November 2, 2007.
Plumert, J. M. Invited participant in workshop on “Perception of scale and spatial orientation.” University of Utah, June 22-23, 2007.
Plumert, J. M. Remembering where things go: It’s not just about what’s in the child’s head. Developmental Area brown bag presentation in the Department of Psychology, University of Chicago, May 7, 2007.
Plumert, J. M. How do immature perceptual and cognitive skills put child cyclists at risk for injury? Colloquium presentation in the Department of Psychology, University of Alabama, Birmingham, November 8, 2006.
Plumert, J. M. (August, 2006). Crossing the disciplinary divide: Bringing together developmental psychology and computer science to study perceptual-motor development. In J. Plumert (Chair), Developmental Science: An Interdisciplinary Approach to Understanding Development. Invited symposium at the 2006 APA Convention, New Orleans, LA.
Plumert, J. M. Crossing the road safely: Children on bicycles. Saturday Scholars presentation, College of Liberal Arts and Sciences, University of Iowa, October 15, 2005.
Plumert, J. M. An ecological approach to perceiving, acting, and thinking. Department of Psychology colloquium in honor of promotion to full professor, October 29, 2004.
Plumert, J. M. Using an interactive, immersive bicycling simulator to study children’s road-crossing behavior. Colloquium presentation at the University of Michigan Transportation Research Institute (UMTRI), April 17, 2003.
Plumert, J. M. Categorical bias in memory for location: Continuity and change over development. Colloquium presentation at the Department of Psychology, University of Michigan, March 17, 2003.
Plumert, J. M. Using an immersive, interactive bicycling simulator to study children’s bicycling behavior. Presentation at the Interdisciplinary Human Factors Lecture Series, University of Iowa, February 7, 2002.
Plumert, J. M. Biases in estimates of location: Weighting perceptually available and remembered information. Colloquium presentation at the Institute of Child Development, University of Minnesota, September 24, 1999.
Plumert, J. M. Subdividing locations into regions: The role of boundaries and prototypes. Presentation at the Cognitive Science Workshop, “The Ins and Outs of Spatial Representation,” Northwestern University, January 30-31, 1998.
Plumert, J. M. The role of parental feedback in the development of children’s communication skills. Colloquium presentation at the Department of Speech Pathology and Audiology, University of Iowa, October 4, 1995.
Plumert, J. M. The early development of children’s spatial communication. Colloquium presentation at the Department of Psychology, Grinnell College, April 14, 1995.
Plumert, J. M. Continuities and discontinuities in the development of spatial communication. Colloquium presentation at the Institute of Child Development, University of Minnesota, January 12, 1995.
Plumert, J. M. Children’s overestimation of their physical abilities: A risk factor for childhood injuries? Colloquium presentation at the Institute of Agricultural Medicine and Occupational Health, University of Iowa, September 13, 1994.
Plumert, J. M. The early development of spatial communication. Colloquium presentation at the Department of Psychology, University of Illinois, Champaign-Urbana, December 4, 1992.
Plumert, J. M. Strategies for remembering and identifying objects: 1001 uses of spatial information. Colloquium presentation at the Department of Psychology, Arizona State University, March 8, 1991.
Plumert, J. M. (2008, September). How do child cyclists make decisions about crossing traffic-filled intersections? In J. Thomson (Chair), Psychological competences underlying traffic behaviour and their development in children and adolescents. Symposium presented at the 4th International Conference on Traffic & Transport Psychology, Washington, DC.
Plumert, J. M. (2007, March). Cutting it close: Developmental changes in children’s perception of traffic gaps. In J. Plumert (Chair), Crossing the road safely: A practical challenge for the developing perception-action-cognition system. Symposium presented at the 2007 Biennial Meeting of the Society for Research in Child Development, Boston, MA.
Plumert, J. M., & Hund, A. M. (2003, April). Categorical bias in children’s memory for location. In J. Plumert (Chair), Multiple perspectives on the development of spatial categorization. Symposium presented at the 2003 Biennial Meeting of the Society for Research in Child Development, Tampa, FL.
Plumert, J. M. (2003, April). How does information about what objects are influence children’s memory for where objects are located? In J. Plumert and D. Uttal (Chairs), Spatial cognition and the rest of cognition: Relations between spatial and nonspatial thinking. Symposium presented at the 2003 Biennial Meeting of the Society for Research in Child Development, Tampa, FL.
Plumert, J. M., Kearney, J., & Cremer, J. (2002, April). Organizer of symposium entitled, Virtual Environments as Tools for Studying Human Behavior. The University of Iowa Obermann Center/Spelman Rockefeller Symposium.
Plumert, J. M., & Hund, A. M. (2001, October). A domain-general view of the development of categorization: Forming spatial groups. In J. P. Spencer (Chair), The development of spatial cognition: A map to the child’s mind? Symposium conducted at the 2001 Meeting of the Cognitive Development Society, Virginia Beach, VA.
Plumert, J. M. (1999, April). Distortions in memory for location: What role do spatial prototypes play? In J. M. Plumert & J. P. Spencer (Chairs), The development of spatial memory: What is remembered? Symposium conducted at the 1999 Biennial Meeting of the Society for Research in Child Development, Albuquerque.
Plumert, J. M. (1998, August). The real reason to do research: An essay in honor of Herbert L. Pick, Jr. In L. Liben (Chair), Symposium in honor of Herbert L. Pick, Jr.: An ecological approach to cognitive and perceptuomotor development. Symposium conducted at the 1998 Convention of the American Psychological Association, San Francisco.
Plumert, J. M. (1995, April). Developmental change in communicating about hierarchical spatial relations. In J. Plumert (Chair), Developmental change in the coding of spatial location. Symposium conducted at the 1995 Biennial Meeting of the Society for Research in Child Development, Indianapolis.
Plumert, J. M. (1992, October). The development of children’s spatial knowledge: Implications for cartographic education. In H. Castner (Chair), Child development and cartographic education. Symposium conducted at the meeting of the North American Cartographic Information Society, St. Paul, MN.
Plumert, J. M. (1991, April). Children's use of categorical and spatial clustering strategies for recalling objects. In J. Plumert & D. Uttal (Chairs), Where do we go now? Understanding the development and use of spatial thinking in problem-solving contexts. Symposium conducted at the 1991 Biennial Meeting of the Society for Research in Child Development, Seattle.
Elicker, J., Craton, L. G., & Plumert, J. M. (1987, April). Children's use of frames of reference in communication of spatial location. In S. Somerville (Chair), Early spatial development: Children's use of frames of reference and coordinates. Symposium conducted at the 1987 Biennial Meeting of the Society for Research in Child Development, Baltimore.
Ziemer, C. J., Pick, A.D., & Plumert, J.M. (April 2009). Through the looking glass: Infants' manual actions towards objects and pictures. Poster presented at the 34th Biennial Meeting of the Society for Research in Child Development, Denver, CO.
Ziemer, C. J., Buss, A.T., Spencer, J.P., & Plumert J.M. (April 2009). Recall of 'where' is affected by 'what': Capturing categorical biases with Dynamic Field Theory. Poster presented at the 34th Biennial Meeting of the Society for Research in Child Development, Denver, CO.
Haggerty, K. A., & Plumert, J. M. (2007, October). How do parents communicate to young children about object location? Poster presented at the Biennial Meeting of the Cognitive Development Society, Santa Fe, NM.
Recker, K., Plumert, J. M., Neef, B., & Rink, A. (2007, October). What role do objects play in children’s memory for location? Poster presented at the Biennial Meeting of the Cognitive Development Society, Santa Fe, NM.
Ziemer, C., Plumert, J. M., Chihak, B., Cremer, J., & Kearney, J. (2007, October). How does 2-way traffic impact children’s road crossing behavior in a virtual environment? Poster presented at the Biennial Meeting of the Cognitive Development Society, Santa Fe, NM.
Ziemer, C., Plumert, J. M., Cremer, J., & Kearney, J. (2007, May). Perceptual adaptation to environmental scale. Poster presented at the 2007 meeting of the Vision Sciences Society, Sarasota, FL.
Recker, K. M., Plumert, J. M., & Stevens, E. N. (2007, March). Children’s memory for location is not only about what’s in the head. Poster presented at the 2007 Biennial Meeting of the Society for Research in Child Development, Boston, MA.
Recker, K. M., & Plumert, J. M. (2007, March). How do young children use relative distance to scale location? Poster presented at the 2007 Biennial Meeting of the Society for Research in Child Development, Boston, MA.
Ziemer, C., Plumert, J. M., Cremer, J., & Kearney, J. (2007, March). Studying children’s road-crossing behavior using an immersive, interactive bicycling simulator: How does driver behavior impact gap choices? Poster presented at the 2007 Biennial Meeting of the Society for Research in Child Development, Boston, MA.
Ziemer, C., Plumert, J. M., Cremer, J., & Kearney, J. (2006, November). Do people exhibit perceptual adaptation to environmental scale? Poster presented at the Meeting of the Psychonomic Society, Houston, TX.
Ziemer, C., Plumert, J. M., Cremer, J., & Kearney, J. (2006, July). Making distance judgments in real and virtual environments: Does order make a difference? Poster presented at the 2006 Symposium on Applied Perception in Graphics and Visualization and at SIGGRAPH 2006, Boston, MA.
Hund, A. M., & Plumert, J. M. (2005, October). What counts as “by?” Young children’s use of relative distance to judge nearbyness. Poster presented at the Biennial Meeting of the Cognitive Development Society, San Diego, CA.
Recker, K., & Plumert, J. M. (2005, October). Memory for location in a scaling task. Poster presented at the Biennial Meeting of the Cognitive Development Society, San Diego, CA.
Koson, K., & Plumert, J. M. (2005, April). How do biases in memory for location emerge during learning? Poster presented at the 2005 Biennial Meeting of the Society for Research in Child Development, Atlanta, GA.
Plumert, J. M., Kearney, J. K., & Cremer, J. F. (2004, November). Distance estimation in real and virtual environments. Poster presented at the Meeting of the Psychonomic Society, Minneapolis, MN.
Koson, K. M., & Plumert, J. M. (2003, October). The role of object information in location memory. Poster presented at the Biennial Meeting of the Cognitive Development Society, Park City, UT.
Plumert, J. M., Kearney, J. K., & Cremer, J. F. (2003, October). Virtual environments as laboratories for studying children’s cognitive development: Results from an immersive, interactive bicycling simulator. Poster presented at the Biennial Meeting of the Cognitive Development Society, Park City, UT.
Hund, A., & Plumert, J. M. (2001, October). Does information about what things are influence children’s memory for where things are? Poster presented at the 2001 Meeting of the Cognitive Development Society, Virginia Beach, VA.
Hund, A., & Plumert, J. M. (2001, April). Delay-induced bias in children’s memory for location. Poster presented at the 2001 Biennial Meeting of the Society for Research in Child Development, Minneapolis, MN.
Hund, A., & Plumert, J. M. (1999, October). Developmental differences in location memory. Poster presented at the meeting of the Cognitive Development Society, Chapel Hill.
Schwebel, D. C., Dawes, S. C., Drewes, T. M., & Plumert, J. M. (1999, August). Temperament, judgment, and bicycling injuries: Results from a bicycling simulator. Poster presented at the annual convention of the American Psychological Association, Boston, MA.
Plumert, J. M., & Hawkins, A. M. (1999, April). Young children’s communication about spatial relations: “In” vs. “by”. Poster presented at the 1999 Biennial Meeting of the Society for Research in Child Development, Albuquerque, NM.
Schwebel, D. C., McDermott, J. A., Dawes, S. C., & Plumert, J. M. (1998, August). Links between children's motor coordination and injury proneness. Poster presented at the annual convention of the American Psychological Association, San Francisco, CA.
Nichols-Whitehead, P., Plumert, J. M., & Welborn, A. (1997, April). Young children’s recognition of ambiguity in a nonverbal search task. Poster presented at the 1997 Biennial Meeting of the Society for Research in Child Development, Washington, D. C.
Schwebel, D. C., Dawes, S. C., & Plumert, J. M. (1997, April). Relations between children’s temperament, ability overestimation, and injury proneness. Poster presented at the 1997 Biennial Meeting of the Society for Research in Child Development, Washington, D. C.
Nichols-Whitehead, P., & Plumert, J. M. (1996, May). Young children’s recognition of ambiguity. Poster presented at the Midwestern Psychological Association, Chicago, IL.
Martin, R., Plumert, J. M., Schwebel, D. C., & Nichols-Whitehead, P. (1996, May). Common sense models of stress and illness in children. Poster presented at the Midwestern Psychological Association, Chicago, IL.
Plumert, J. M., Spalding, T. L., & Lund, T. R. (1995, November). Biases for ascending and descending spatial hierarchies in descriptions of object locations. Poster presented at the meeting of The Psychonomic Society, Los Angeles, CA.
Plumert, J. M. (1994, November). The role of spatial structure in communication about object locations. Poster presented at the meeting of The Psychonomic Society, St. Louis, MO.
Plumert, J. M., Oakes, L. M., Merryman, J. D., Lansink, J. M. (1994, June). Developmental changes in use of categorization skills between 10 and 13 months. Poster presented at the meeting of the International Society of Infant Studies, Paris, France.
Carswell, C., & Plumert, J. M. (1993, November). Retrieval time of memory for spatial location. Poster presented at the meeting of The Psychonomic Society, Washington, D. C.
Plumert, J. M. (1993, March). Young children’s use of multiple landmarks to describe proximity and support relations. Poster presented at the Biennial Meeting of the Society for Research in Child Development, New Orleans.
Plumert, J. M. (1993, March). Making a furniture inventory from memory: Age differences in use of spatial and categorical organizational strategies. Poster presented at the Biennial Meeting of the Society for Research in Child Development, New Orleans.
Plumert, J. M., & Carswell, C. (1992, November). Hierarchical organization in adults’ descriptions of spatial location. Poster presented at the meeting of The Psychonomic Society, St. Louis, MO.
Sheppard, D. A., Pemberton, E., Ropp, K., Plumert, J. M., Putnam, S. (1992, April). The mental imagery hypothesis revisited: Young children’s preferences for previously drawn but forgotten pictures. Poster presented at the Conference on Human Development, Atlanta, GA.
Plumert, J. M., & Speer, S. J. (1992, April). Young children's use of multiple spatial relations in their descriptions of location. Poster presented at the Conference on Human Development, Atlanta, GA.
Plumert, J. M., & Kintsch, A. S. (1991, April). Getting the listener to the location: The structure and content of children's and adults' spatial directions. Poster presented at the 1991 Biennial Meeting of the Society for Research in Child Development, Seattle.
Plumert, J. M., & Pick, H. L., Jr. (1989, June). How children search for hidden objects: Developmental changes in search strategies. Paper presented at the Nineteenth Annual Symposium of The Jean Piaget Society. Philadelphia.
Plumert, J. M., Marks, R. A., & Pick, H. L., Jr. (1988, June). Children's search behavior and spatial memory organization. Paper presented at the Eighteenth Annual Symposium of The Jean Piaget Society. Philadelphia.
Sancilio, M. F. M., Plumert, J. M., & Hartup, W. W. (1987, April). Friendship and aggressiveness as determinants of conflict outcomes in middle childhood. Poster presented at the 1987 Biennial Meeting of the Society for Research in Child Development. Baltimore.
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Ihrig, D. (1996). Transfer of spatial clustering skills in searching and direction-giving.
Dunisch, D. (1996). Development of hierarchical organization in children’s spatial directions.
Welborn, A. (1997). Young children’s recognition of ambiguity.
McDermott, J.A. (1998). Relations between children’s judgments about their physical abilities and motor coordination.
Dawes, S. (1998). Temperament, motor coordination, and overestimation of physical ability.
Rains, S. (1999). The relationship between children's temperament and performance on an interactive, immersive bicycling simulator.
Koschmeder, S. (1999). Children's judgments of traffic gap affordances on an interactive, immersive bicycling simulator.
Fraga, B. (2000). A comparison of distance estimates in real and simulated environments.
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Howell, R. A. (2003). Changes in category bias of location memory over learning.
Neef, B. (2008). What role do objects play in children’s memory for location?
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Schwebel, D. C. (2000). Relations between children's temperament, ability estimation, and unintentional injuries.
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DEPARTMENTAL SERVICE:
Associate Chair, Department of Psychology (2006-present)
Committee on Undergraduate Studies, 1991-93, 2006-present
Committee on Graduate Studies, 1996-2004, Fall, 2006
Faculty Advisory Committee, 1993-1996, 2005-present
Coordinator of the Developmental Science Graduate Training Area, 1996-2004, Fall, 2006
Faculty Search Committee in Developmental Psychology (1995-96)
Faculty Search Committee in Developmental Psychology, Chair (1996-97)
Faculty Search Committee in Cognition and Perception (1997-98)
Faculty Search Committee in Developmental Psychology (1998-99)
Faculty Search Committee in Developmental Psychology, Chair (1999-2000)
Courseload Task Force Committee (Fall, 1999)
Promotion and Tenure Committee for Susan Lutgendorf (2000-2001)
Promotion and Tenure Committee for John Freeman (2001-2002)
Faculty Search Committee in Developmental Psychology (2001-02)
Faculty Search Committee in Developmental Psychology, Chair (2003-2004)
Diversity Committee, 2004-2006
Faculty Search Committee in Cognition and Perception (2006-07)
Promotion and Tenure Committee for Scott Robinson (2006-2007)
Promotion and Tenure Committee for Shaun Vecera (2006-2007)
Promotion and Tenure Committee for Pamela Keel, Chair (2007-2008)
Promotion and Tenure Committee for Larissa Samuelson, Chair (2008-2009)
Faculty Assembly, 2002-2006
Faculty Assembly Diversity Committee, 2004-2006, Chair, 2005-2006
College of Liberal Arts and Sciences, New Faculty Orientation, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2008
Promotion and Tenure Committee for Warren Darling (2006-2007, Department of Integrative Physiology)
CLAS Collegiate Consulting Group for promotion and tenure, 2006-2007, 2007-2008
Promotion and Tenure Committee for Carol Coohey (2009-2010, School of Social Work)
Educational Policy Committee, 2009-present
Opportunity at Iowa Review Committee (1996)
Ida Beam Selection Committee, 2004, 2005
Obermann Center for Advanced Studies Advisory Committee, 2005-2008, Chair, 2007-2008
Faculty Scholar Award review committee, 2005, 2007
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Fellows Committee (2005)
Dissertation Award Committee (2005-2006, 2006-2007)
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Developmental Psychology
Memory
International Journal of Behavioural Development
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JEP: General
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Merrill-Palmer Quarterly
Memory & Cognition
Journal of Experimental Child Psychology
Journal of Comparative Psychology
British Journal of Developmental Psychology
Journal of Cognition and Development
Developmental Psychobiology
Cognitive Processing
Journal of Applied Developmental Psychology
Canadian Psychology
Journal of Child Language
Journal of Environmental Psychology
Journal of Pediatric Psychology
Transportation Research C
Current Directions in Psychological Science
Attention, Perception, & Psychophysics
Lawrence Earlbaum Associates Prentice-Hall
Worth Publishers
Ad-hoc reviewer for National Science Foundation (1995; 1999)
Ad-hoc panel member of the National Institutes of Health HUD-1 (1999)
Israel Science Foundation (2003)
Site visit reviewer for proposed National Science Foundation Science of Learning Center: 2004, 2005 (declined in 2005 – conflict of interest)
Panelist for National Science Foundation (2005, 2007)
Canada Council for the Arts, reviewer for Killam Research Fellowship, 2005
Division 7 (Developmental Psychology) reviewer of submissions to the 1996 annual convention of the American Psychological Association.
Reviewer of submissions to the 1997 Biennial Meeting of the Society for Research in Child Development (Cognition 1: Concepts, Space, Reasoning, Problem Solving).
Reviewer of submissions to the 1999 Biennial Meeting of the Society for Research in Child Development (Cognition 1: Concepts, Space, Reasoning, Problem Solving).
Reviewer of submissions to the 2001 Biennial Meeting of the Society for Research in Child Development (Cognition 1: Concepts, Space, Reasoning, Problem Solving).
Reviewer of submissions to the 2003 Biennial Meeting of the Society for Research in Child Development (Childhood: Physical and Cognitive Processes).
Reviewer of submissions to the 2004 Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society.
Reviewer of submissions to the 2005 Biennial Meeting of the Society for Research in Child Development (Attention, Learning, and Memory)
Reviewer of submissions to the 2005 Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society.
Symposium Review Committee for the 2005 Biennial Meeting of the Cognitive Development Society
Reviewer of submissions to the 2007 Biennial Meeting of the Society for Research in Child Development (Representation, Concepts, and Problem-Solving)