Seed Grant Funding

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Seed Grant Funding

• Anne Schutte, Ph.D.

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Goals of my seed grant

• First goal to replicate the results of Schutte
  (2004) using the apparatus here at Nebraska
• Second goal to determine the developmental
  trajectory in a different SWM task, the sandbox
  task
• Third goal to develop a location discrimination
  task

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How I used money from seed grant

• Equipment
• Sandbox
• Camcorder
• Curtain tracking and curtains
• Experimental software
• Reimbursement for participants
• Computer programmer

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How I used results from seed grant in my R03

• Experiment 1 used previous data in R03, but
  Experiment 1 allowed me to be certain that
  results would replicate on current apparatus

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How I used results from seed grant in my R03

• Experiment 2 Used data in R03 to establish that
  there were developmental changes in sandbox task
  at the ages that were relevant for my R03
  proposal

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How I used results from seed grant in my R03

• Experiment 3 did not present data in grant, but
  was able to state that we had developed a
  location discrimination task that 3-year-olds
  were able to complete

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Timeline

• Received seed grant in January, 2005
• Applied for NIH R03 in October of 2005
• Currently in second year of R03

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Conclusion

• How I used my seed grant
• To replicate previous research
• As preliminary data
• To develop a task used in the grant