Jodie Plumert CV

Research Interests

Risk taking in typically- and atypically-developing populations, perceptual-motor development, unintentional childhood injuries, parent-child communication, development of spatial memory and communication

Primary Research Area

Developmental Science

Training Areas

Clinical Science

Cognition

Research Group

Developmental Psychopathology

Developmental Science

Representative Publications

Parr, M. D. N, O’Neal, E. O., Zhou, S., Williams, B., Butler, K. M., Chen, A., Kearney, J. K., & Plumert, J. M. (2023). How children judge affordances when walking and bicycling across virtual roads: Does mode of locomotion matter? Developmental Psychology, 59(6), 1098–1108. https://dx.doi.org/10.1037/dev0001520 

O’Neal, E. E., Rahimian, P., Jiang, Y., Zhou, S. Nikolas, M., Kearney, J. K., & Plumert, J. M. (2022). How do child ADHD symptoms and oppositionality impact parent-child interactions when crossing virtual roads? Journal of Pediatric Psychology, 47(3), 337-349. https://doi.org/10.1093/jpepsy/jsab102  

Rahimian, P., Plumert, J. M., & Kearney, J. K. (2021). The effect of visuomotor latency on steering behavior in virtual reality. Frontiers in Virtual Reality, Volume 2, Article 727858.  https://doi.org/10.3389/frvir.202727858

Parr, M. D. N., Tang, H., Mallaro, S. R., Kearney, J. K., & Plumert, J. M. (2021). Do inattention/hyperactivity and motor timing predict children’s virtual road-crossing performance? Journal of Pediatric Psychology, 46(9), 1130-1139. https://doi.org/10.1093/jpepsy/jsab054

O’Neal, E. E., Zhou, S., Jiang, Y., Kearney, J. K., & Plumert, J. M. (2021). Let’s cross the next one: Parental scaffolding of prospective control over movement. Child Development, 92(2), e173-e185. DOI: 10.1111/cdev.13457

Jiang, Y., O’Neal, E. E., Zhou, S., Plumert, J. M., & Kearney, J. K. (2020). Crossing roads with a computer-generated agent: Persistent effects on perception-action tuning. ACM Transactions on Applied Perception, 18(1), Article 4.

Hund, A. M., Plumert, J. M., & Recker, K. M. (2020). Visually scaling distance from memory: Do midline boundaries make a difference? Spatial Cognition & Computation, 20(2), 134-159.

O’Neal, E. E., Jiang, Y., Brown, K., Kearney, J. K., & Plumert, J. M. (2019). How does crossing roads with friends impact risk taking in young adolescents and adults? Journal of Pediatric Psychology, 44, 726-735.

Plumert, J. M., Hund, A. M., & Recker, K.K. (2019). Is scaling up harder than scaling down? How children and adults visually scale distance from memory. Cognition, 185, 39-48.

Jiang, Y., O’Neal, E. E., Rahimian, P., Yon, J.P., Plumert, J. M., & Kearney, J. K. (2019). Joint action in a virtual environment: Crossing roads with risky vs. safe human and agent partners. IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics, 25, 2886-2895. DOI: 10.1109/TVCG.2018.2865945

Lorenz, M. G., & Plumert, J. M. (2019). Mother-child communication about relative proximity to a landmark: What role does prototypicality play? Journal of Experimental Child Psychology, 178, 41-59.