Dr Chris Lange-Kuettner

Contact Information

School of Psychology, Faculty of Life Sciences,
1, Old Castle Street, City Campus, London E1 7NT

Tel: 020 7320 1075
Fax: 020 7320 1236

Email: c.langekuettner@londonmet.ac.uk

Website: http://www.city.londonmet.ac.uk/~kuettner/CLKWeb


Teaching and Administration Responsibilities
PY3P01 BSc. Psychology Project, PY3P01N Applied Psychology Project
PY3012 Neural Networks
PY2005 Cognitive Psychology II PY3003 Cognitive Development
Research Methods I-III
Erasmus Coordinator
Invited Speaker Seminar Coordinator

Research Interests

Spatial cognition in infants and children

Development of graphic representation

Word and sound structure effects



Selected Publications (journal article reprints available on http://www.city.londonmet.ac.uk/~kuettner/CLKWeb)
Lange-Kuttner, C. (in press). Views and attention in children. Acta Paediatrica
Lange-Kuttner, C. (2009). Habitual and projective size. The logic of spatial systems in children's drawings. Developmental Psychology, 4, 913-927.
Lange-Kuttner, C. (in press). Discrimination of sea bird sounds vs. garden bird songs: Do Scottish and German-Saxon infants show the same preferential looking behaviour as adults ? European Journal of Developmental Psychology
Lange-Kuttner, C. (2008). When one is really two: Switching from object to place memory in the A-not-B search task. European Journal of Developmental Science, 2, 370-386.
Lange-Kuttner, C., & Finn, C. (2008). Musical notation and fine motor skills when playing the soprano recorder: Making a neural network lift a finger. In Schlesinger, M., Berthouze, L., & Balkenius, C. (Eds.). Proceedings of the 8th International Conference on Epigenetic Robotics: Modeling cognitive development in robotic systems. Lund University Cognitive Studies, 139, 69-76.
Lange-Kuttner, C. & Vinter, A. (Eds.) (2008). Drawing and the non-verbal mind: A life-span perspective. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press (Authors: Bard, Ross, Campbell, Jolley, Freeman, Adi-Japha, Braswell, Rosengren, Vinter, Picard, Fernandes, Morra, Tallandini, Deregowski, Lindenberger, Brehmer, Kliegl, Baltes, Patterson, Erzinclioglu, Kennedy, Juricevic, Sheppard, Mitchell, Ropar)
Lange-Kuttner, C. (2008). Figures in and out of context: Absent, simple, complex and halved spatial fields. In C. Lange-Kuttner, & A. Vinter (Eds.). Drawing and the non-verbal mind: A life-span perspective. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press
Lange-Kuttner, C. & Vinter, A. (2008). Contemporary approaches to a long-standing domain: Drawing research. In C. Lange-Küttner & A. Vinter (Eds.). Drawing and the non-verbal mind: A life-span perspective (pp. 1-18). Cambridge: Cambridge University Press
Lange-Kuttner, C. (2008). Size and contour as crucial parameters in children drawing images (pp. 89-106). In C. Milbrath & H.-M. Trautner (Eds.). Children's understanding and production of pictures, drawing and art - Theoretical and empirical approaches. Gottingen: Hogrefe
Lange-Kuttner, C. & Green, H. (2007). What is the age of mental rotation ? Proceedings of the 6th IEEE International Conference on Development and Learning, IEEE Press, 259-263.
Lange-Kuttner, C. (2006). Drawing boundaries: From individual to common region. The development of spatial region attribution in children. British Journal of Developmental Psychology, 24, 419-427.
Lange-Kuttner, C. (2005). Word structure effects in German and British reading beginners. German Journal of Educational Psychology/Zeitschrift fur Padagogische Psychologie, 19, 207-218.
Lange-Kuttner, C. (2004). More evidence of size modification in spatial axes systems of varying complexity. Journal of Experimental Child Psychology, 88, 171-192.
Lange-Kuttner, C., Kerzmann, A., & Heckhausen, J. (2002). The emergence of visual realistic contour in the drawing of the human figure. British Journal of Developmental Psychology, 20, 439-463

Lange-Kuttner, C. (2001). Behavioural development and mental health in infancy: Object retrieval. Nutrition and Health, 15, 189-195

Lange-Kuttner, C., & Friederici, A.D. (2000). Modularity of object and place memory in children. Brain and Cognition, 43, 302-305.

Lange-Kuttner, C. (2000). The role of object violation in the development of visual analysis. Perceptual and Motor Skills, 90, 3-24.

Lange-Kuttner, C. & Martin, S. (1999). Reversed effects of familiarity and novelty in visual and auditory working memory for words. Brain and Cognition, 40, 159-162.

Crichton, M. T. & Lange-Kuttner, C. (1999). Animacy and propulsion in infancy: Tracking, waving and reaching to self-propelled and induced moving objects. Developmental Science, 2, 318-324.

Lange-Kuttner, C., & Crichton, M.T. (1999). Change of spatial field effects in 16 to 20 week old infants. Brain and Cognition, 39, 75-92.

Lange-Kuttner, C. (1998). Which babies are closing the AB gap ? Learning effects in object retrieval. Archives de Psychologie, 66, 85-103.

Lange-Kuttner, C. (1998). Pressure, velocity and time in speeded drawing of basic graphic patterns in young children. Perceptual and Motor Skills, 86, 1299-1310.

Lange-Kuttner, C. (1997). Development of size modification of human figure drawings in spatial axes systems of varying complexity. Journal of Experimental Child Psychology, 66, 264-278.

Lange-Kuttner, C. & Thomas, G. V. (Eds.) (1995). Drawing and looking. Hemel Hempstead: Prentice Hall/Harvester Wheatsheaf (now PEARSON print-on-demand)

Lange-Kuttner, C. (1994). Gestalt und Konstruktion (Gestalt and Construction). Bern: Huber

Lange-Kuttner, C. (1989). Raumbegriff und Objektbeziehungen beim Kind (Space concept and object relations in the child). Frankfurt/M.: Lang

Dr Chris Lange-Kuttner
Senior Lecturer
until 31/03/2010 Temporary Professor of Developmental Psychology at the University of Konstanz, Germany

Lange-Kuttner, C. & Vinter, A. (Eds.) (2008). Drawing and the Non-Verbal Mind. A Life-span Perspective, Cambridge University Press