Academic interests
For a more exhaustive overview, see: Research agenda
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Language Acquisition, in particular word learning
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Infant Speech Perception
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Cognitive Development, and its interaction with Language Learning
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Computational modeling in Psychology
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Bilingualism
Background
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2020 → Full professor, Department of Psychology, University of Oslo
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2016-2020 Associate Professor, Department of Psychology, University of Oslo
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2014-2016 Associate Professor, University of Nottingham Malaysia Campus
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2011-2014 “Ambizione” Fellow, Department of Psychology, University of Geneva
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2010-2011 Senior Post-Doctoral Fellow, Basque Center on Cognition, Brain and Language
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2007-2010 Post-Doctoral Fellow, Department of Psychology, University of Oxford
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2001-2005 PhD, Brain-Mind Institute, Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne
Awards
2021 SPARK SOCIAL INNOVATION grant. BabyLex - The new generation of early language assessments. Role: Principal Investigator. Funding: NOK 400k.
2020 FRIPRO research grant from the Norwegian Research Council: BABYLEARN: The role of parental speech in infant language development: Insights from Norwegian language. Role. Co-Investigator (PI: Natalia Kartushina). Funding: NOK 8m.
2016 Malaysian Ministry of Science Technology and Innovation grant: eBaby language assessment: Development and application of an innovative mobile and tablet-based formal language assessment tool to detect language delay in young children. Role: Principal Investigator. Funding: RM 91k
2015 Malaysian Ministry of Education (FRGS) grant: Building an integrative model of early word learning via a dual approach; computational modeling and tablet-based experiments. Role: Principal Investigator. Funding: RM 91.2k
2015 Malaysian Ministry of Education (FRGS) grant: Developing an ecological model of early language intervention for autism within the cultural and multilingual contexts of Malaysia. Role: Co-Investigator (PI: Tze Peng Wang). Funding: RM 95.7k
2015 Awarded “Pump Priming” research grant: The Role of Mutual Exclusivity in Early Word Learning; a Tablet-based Experiment. Role: Principal Investigator. Funding: RM 10k
2014 NetWordS short visit grant from the European Science Foundation: Probing the impact of the infant lexicon on her speech perception with a dual approach: computational modelling and empirical study. Role: Principal Investigator
2011 ”Ambizione” fellowship from the Swiss National Science Foundation: A Neuro-computational Investigation of lexical development in Williams Syndrome Children. Role: Principal Investigator. Funding: CHF 423k.
Registered Reports in Stage 1/in press
Laeng, B., Mayor, J., Rosslund, A., & Kartushina, N. (accepted pending data collection). Pupillary Response to a Brightness Illusion in Infants. Collabra: Psychology.
Serres, Mayor & Kartushina (accepted pending data collection). The Role of Dialect Variability on Mispronunciation Sensitivity: An Insight to Infants’ Early Language Development from a Norwegian Context. Infancy.
Robberstad, Kartushina & Mayor (accepted pending data collection). Fathers learning on the job: Role of Paternity Leave Duration on Paternal Infant-Directed Speech and Preference for Male Infant-Directed Speech in infants. PCI-RR
Soderstrom, ..., Kartushina, Mayor, ... (accepted pending data collection). Testing the Relationship Between Preferences for Infant-Directed Speech and Vocabulary Development: A Multi-Lab Study. Journal of Child Language.
Visser, I., …, Mayor, J.., ... & Levelt, C. (accepted pending data collection). ManyBabies 3: A multi-lab study of infant algebraic rule learning. Developmental Science.