Education:
1989, Ph.D., Developmental Psychology, University of Michigan.
1983, B. S., Psychology, College of William and Mary

Professional Experience:
1993-present: Assistant Professor of Psychology, Northwestern University
1991-1993: Postdoctoral Fellow, Department of Psychology,
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
1989-1991: Assistant Professor of Psychology,
Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University

Five Publications Most Closely Related to the Proposed Project:

Bailenson, J. N., Shum, M. S., & Uttal, D. H. (in press).  Road climbing:  Principles governing asymmetric route choices on maps.  Journal of Environmental Psychology.

Uttal, D. H. (1996). Angles and Distances: Children’s Mental Representation of Spatial Information Acquired from Maps.  Child Development, 67, 2763-2779.

Uttal, D. H., DeLoache, J. S., & Schreiber, J. C.  (1995), Waiting to use a symbol:  The effects of delay on children’s use of models. Child Development.

Uttal, D. H. (1994).  Preschoolers’ and Adults’ Scale Translation and Reconstruction of Spatial Information Acquired from Maps.  British Journal of Developmental Psychology.

Uttal, D. H., & Wellman, H. M. (1989).  Young children's representation of spatial information acquired from maps.  Developmental Psychology, 25, 128-138.

Five Other Significant Publications:

Uttal, D. H. (1997).  Beliefs about genetic influences on mathematics achievement:  A cross-cultural comparison.  Genetica, 99, 165-172.

Uttal, D. H., Scudder, K. V., & DeLoache, J. S. (1997).  Manipulatives as symbols:  A new perspective on the use of concrete objects to teach mathematics.  Journal of Applied Developmental Psychology, 18, 37-54.

DeLoache, J. S., Uttal, D. H., & Pierroutsakos, S. L. (1998).  The development of early symbolization:  Educational implications.  Learning and Instruction, 8, 325-339.

DeLoache, J. S., Pierroutsakos, S. L., Uttal, D. H., Rosengren, K. S., & Gottlieb, A. (1998).  Grasping the nature of pictures.  Psychological Science, 9, 205-210.

Uttal, D. H., Liu, L. L., & DeLoache, J. S. (in press).  Taking a hard look at concreteness:  Do concrete objects help young children to learn symbolic relations?  To appear in L. Balter and C. Tamis-LeMonda (Eds.), Handbook of early child development.  Taylor & Francis.