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Department of Psychology

Faculty

Anne Schutte   
Office: Burnett, 317
(402)472-3798
aschutte2@unl.edu

Dr. Schutte received her Ph. D. from the University of Iowa and joined the faculty in 2004. Her research interests are in the area of cognitive development, with a particular focus on the role of experience in the development of spatial cognition. Her primary research program centers on the development of spatial working memory in early childhood. Her research is based on a dynamic systems model of cognition, the Dynamic Field Theory. She teaches courses in developmental psychology, cognitive development, and child behavior and development.
 

Select Publications

Schutte, A. R., & Spencer, J. P., (In press). The influence of perceptual structure on a developmental transition in spatial working memory. Journal of Cognition and Development.

Schutte, A. R. & Spencer, J.P. (In press). Tests of the Dynamic Field Theory and the Spatial Precision Hypothesis: Capturing a Qualitative Developmental Transition in Spatial Working Memory. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance.

Samuelson, L. K., Schutte A. R., & Horst, J. S. (2009). The dynamic nature of knowledge: Insights from a dynamic field model of children's novel noun generalization. Cognition, 110, 322-345.

Samuelson, L. K., Horst, J. S., Schutte A. R., & Dobbertin, B. N. (2008). Rigid thinking about deformables: Do children sometimes overgeneralize the shape bias? Journal of Child Language, 35, 559-589. http://digitalcommons.unl.edu/psychfacpub/398

Schutte, A. R., and Spencer, J. P. (2007). Planning "discrete" movements using a continuous system: Testing a dynamic field model of movement preparation. Motor Control, 11, 166-208.

Spencer, J. P., Simmering, V. R., & Schutte, A. R. (2006). Toward a formal theory of flexible spatial behavior: Geometric category biases generalize across pointing and verbal response types. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance, 32, 473-490. http://digitalcommons.unl.edu/psychfacpub/10

Spencer, J. P. & Schutte, A. R. (2004). Unifying representations and responses: Perseverative riases arise from a single behavioral system. Psychological Science, 15, 187-193. http://digitalcommons.unl.edu/psychfacpub/11

Schutte, A. R., Spencer, J. P., Schöner, G. (2003). Testing the dynamic field theory: Working memory for locations becomes more spatially precise over development. Child Development. 74, 1393-1417. http://digitalcommons.unl.edu/psychfacpub/24

Schutte, A. R. & Spencer, J. P. (2002). Generalizing the dynamic field theory of the A-not-B error beyond infancy: Three-year-olds’ delay- and experience-dependent location memory biases. Child Development, 73, 377-404. http://digitalcommons.unl.edu/psychfacpub/69/
 

Extramural Funding

"The role of experience in the development of spatial working memory." National Institutes of Health. Anne R. Schutte (P.I.)