Julien Mayor

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Besøksadresse Forskningsveien 3A Harald Schjelderups hus 0373 Oslo
Postadresse Postboks 1094 Blindern 0317 Oslo

Faglige interesser

  • Language Acquisition, in particular word learning

  • Infant Speech Perception

  • Cognitive Development, and its interaction with Language Learning

  • Computational modeling in Psychology

  • Bilingualism

Bakgrunn

  • 2020 →               Full Professor, Department of Psychology, University of Oslo

  • 2016-2020           Associate Professor, Department of Psychology, University of Oslo

  • 2014-2016           Associate Professor, University of Nottingham Malaysia Campus

  • 2011-2014           “Ambizione” Fellow, Department of Psychology, University of Geneva

  • 2010-2011           Senior Post-Doctoral Fellow, Basque Center on Cognition, Brain and Language

  • 2007-2010           Post-Doctoral Fellow, Department of Psychology, University of Oxford

  • 2001-2005           PhD, Brain-Mind Institute, Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne

Priser

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 Awarded research grant from Malaysian Ministry of Science Technology and Innovation: 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 Awarded research grant from Malaysian Ministry of Education (FRGS): 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 Awarded research grant from Malaysian Ministry of Education (FRGS): Developing an ecological model of early language intervention for autism within the cultural and multilingual contexts of Malaysia. Role: Co-Investigator. 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 Awarded 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 Awarded ”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

Kartushina & Mayor (accepted pending data collection). Coping with dialects from birth: Role of variability on infants’ early language development. Insights from Norwegian dialects. Developmental Science.

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.

Emneord: Utviklingspsykologi, Avdeling for helse- utviklings- og personlighetspsykologi, Språk, Barn utvikling, Språk utvikling

Publikasjoner

  • Roepstorff, Ida Torp; Mayor, Julien; Havighurst, Sophie Seychelle & Kartushina, Natalia (2024). Same name, different representational levels? Misalignment of indirect parent-reported and direct alternative forced choice measures of emotion word comprehension in preschool children. Journal of Child Language. ISSN 0305-0009. s. 1–16. doi: 10.1017/S0305000923000727.
  • Muñoz, Luis Eduardo; Kartushina, Natalia & Mayor, Julien (2024). Sustained pacifier use is associated with smaller vocabulary sizes at 1 and 2 years of age: A cross-sectional study. Developmental Science. ISSN 1363-755X. doi: 10.1111/desc.13477.
  • Steffan, Adrian; Zimmer, Lucie; Arias-Trejo, Natalia; Bohn, Manuel; Dal Ben, Rodrigo & Flores-Coronado, Marco A. [Vis alle 33 forfattere av denne artikkelen] (2023). Validation of an open source, remote web-based eye-tracking method (WebGazer) for research in early childhood. Infancy. ISSN 1525-0008. doi: 10.1111/infa.12564.
  • Lo, Chang Huan; Hermes, Jonas; Kartushina, Natalia; Mayor, Julien & Mani, Nivedita (2023). e-Babylab: An open-source browser-based tool for unmoderated online developmental studies. Behavior Research Methods. ISSN 1554-351X. doi: 10.3758/s13428-023-02200-7.
  • Rosslund, Audun; Hagelund, Silje; Mayor, Julien & Kartushina, Natalia (2023). Mothers' and fathers' infant-directed speech have similar acoustic properties, but these are not associated with direct or indirect measures of word comprehension in 8-month-old infants. Journal of Child Language. ISSN 0305-0009. doi: 10.1017/S0305000923000557.
  • Richie-Halford, A.; Cieslak, M.; Ai, L.; Cafarra, S.; Covitz, S. & Franco, A. R. [Vis alle 50 forfattere av denne artikkelen] (2022). An analysis ready and quality controlled resource for pediatric brain white-matter research. Scientific Data. ISSN 2052-4463. 9. doi: 10.1038/s41597-022-01816-2.
  • Rosslund, Audun; Mayor, Julien; Óturai, Gabriella & Kartushina, Natalia (2022). Parents’ hyper-pitch and low vowel category variability in infant-directed speech are associated with 18-month-old toddlers’ expressive vocabulary. Language Development Research. 2(1), s. 223–267. doi: 10.34842/2022.0547. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv
  • Kartushina, Natalia & Mayor, Julien (2022). Coping with dialects from birth: Role of variability on infants’ early language development. Insights from Norwegian dialects. Developmental Science. ISSN 1363-755X. 26(1), s. 1–19. doi: 10.1111/desc.13264. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv
  • Visser, Ingmar; Bergmann, Christina; Byers-Heinlein, Krista; Dal Ben, Rodrigo; Duch, Wlodzislaw & Forbes, Samuel [Vis alle 27 forfattere av denne artikkelen] (2022). Improving the generalizability of infant psychological research: The ManyBabies model. Behavioral and Brain Sciences. ISSN 0140-525X. 45(E35). doi: 10.1017/S0140525X21000455.
  • Bergmann, Christina; Dimitrova, Nevena; Alaslani, Khadeejah; Almohammadi, Alaa; Alroqi, Haifa & Aussems, Suzanne [Vis alle 19 forfattere av denne artikkelen] (2022). Young children’s screen time during the first COVID-19 lockdown in 12 countries. Scientific Reports. ISSN 2045-2322. 12(2015). doi: 10.1038/s41598-022-05840-5. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv
  • Kartushina, Natalia; Mani, Nivedita; Aslı, Aktan-Erciyes; Alaslani, Khadeejah; Aldrich, Naomi J. & Almohammadi, Alaa [Vis alle 52 forfattere av denne artikkelen] (2022). COVID-19 first lockdown as a window into language acquisition: associations between caregiver-child activities and vocabulary gains. Language Development Research. 2, s. 1–36. doi: 10.34842/abym-xv34. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv
  • Sia, Ming Yean & Mayor, Julien (2021). Improvements of Statistical Learning Skills Allow Older Children to Go Beyond Single-Hypothesis Testing When Learning Words. Journal of Child Language. ISSN 0305-0009. doi: 10.1017/S0305000921000532. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv
  • Kartushina, Natalia; Rosslund, Audun & Mayor, Julien (2021). Toddlers raised in multi-dialectal families learn words better in accented speech than those raised in monodialectal families. Journal of Child Language. ISSN 0305-0009. doi: 10.1017/S0305000921000520. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv
  • Chai, Jun Ho; Low, Hui Min; Wong, Tze Peng; Onnis, Luca & Mayor, Julien (2021). Extra-linguistic modulation of the English noun-bias: evidence from Malaysian bilingual infants and toddlers. Journal of Cultural Cognitive Science. ISSN 2520-100X. 5, s. 49–64. doi: 10.1007/s41809-021-00078-5. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv
  • Lo, Chang Huan; Rosslund, Audun; Chai, Jun Ho; Mayor, Julien & Kartushina, Natalia (2021). Tablet assessment of word comprehension reveals coarse word representations in 18–⁠20‐month‐old toddlers. Infancy. ISSN 1525-0008. 26(4), s. 596–616. doi: 10.1111/infa.12401. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv
  • Althaus, Nadja; Gliozzi, Valentina; Mayor, Julien & Plunkett, Kim (2020). Infant categorization as a dynamic process linked to memory: Infant categorisation linked to memory. Royal Society Open Science. ISSN 2054-5703. 7:200328(10), s. 1–18. doi: 10.1098/rsos.200328.
  • Ackermann, Lena; Lo, Chang Huan; Mani, Nivedita & Mayor, Julien (2020). Word learning from a tablet app: Toddlers perform better in a passive context. PLOS ONE. ISSN 1932-6203. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0240519. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv
  • Althaus, Nadja; Gliozzi, Valentina; Mayor, Julien & Plunkett, Kim (2020). Infant categorization as a dynamic process linked to memory. Royal Society Open Science. ISSN 2054-5703. 7(200328). doi: 10.1098/rsos.200328. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv
  • Chai, Jun Ho; Lo, Chang Huan & Mayor, Julien (2020). A Bayesian-Inspired Item Response Theory–Based Framework to Produce Very Short Versions of MacArthur–Bates Communicative Development Inventories. Journal of Speech, Language and Hearing Research. ISSN 1092-4388. doi: 10.1044/2020_JSLHR-20-00361. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv
  • Sia, Ming Yean & Mayor, Julien (2020). Syntactic cues help disambiguate objects referred to with count nouns: Illustration with Malay children . Child Development. ISSN 0009-3920. 92(1), s. 101–114. doi: 10.1111/cdev.13401. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv
  • Frank, Michael; Alcock, Katherine; Arias-Trejo, Natalia; Ascherslegen, Gisa; Baldwin, Dare & Barbu, Stephanie [Vis alle 56 forfattere av denne artikkelen] (2020). Quantifying sources of variability in infancy research using the infant-directed speech preference. Advances in Methods and Practices in Psychological Science (AMPPS). ISSN 2515-2459. 3(1), s. 24–52. doi: 10.1177/2515245919900809.
  • Bobb, Susan; Von Holzen, Katie; Mayor, Julien; Mani, Nivedita & Carreiras, Manuel (2020). Co-activation of the L2 during L1 auditory processing: An ERP cross-modal priming study . Brain and Language. ISSN 0093-934X. 203. doi: 10.1016/j.bandl.2019.104739. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv
  • Kartushina, Natalia & Mayor, Julien (2019). Word knowledge in six- to nine-month-old Norwegian infants? Not without additional frequency cues. Royal Society Open Science. ISSN 2054-5703. 6(9). doi: 10.1098/rsos.180711. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv
  • Mayor, Julien & Mani, Nivedita (2018). A short version of the MacArthur–Bates Communicative Development Inventories with high validity. Behavior Research Methods. ISSN 1554-351X. 51, s. 1–2248. doi: 10.3758/s13428-018-1146-0. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv
  • Mayor, Julien; Arias-Trejo, Natalia & Alva, Elda (2018). The Impact of Household Size on Lexical Typicality: An Early Link Between Language and Social Cognition? Frontiers in Psychology. ISSN 1664-1078. 9. doi: 10.3389/fpsyg.2018.01445. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv
  • Klinger, Joern; Mayor, Julien & Colin, Bannard (2016). Children’s faithfulness in imitating language use varies cross-culturally, contingent on prior experience. Child Development. ISSN 0009-3920. 87(3), s. 820–833. doi: 10.1111/cdev.12503.
  • Mayor, Julien & Plunkett, Kim (2014). Shared Understanding and Idiosyncratic Expression in Early Vocabularies. Developmental Science. ISSN 1363-755X. 17(3), s. 412–423. doi: 10.1111/desc.12130.
  • Mayor, Julien & Plunkett, Kim (2014). Infant Word Recognition: Insights from TRACE Simulations. Journal of Memory and Language. ISSN 0749-596X. 71(1), s. 89–123. doi: 10.1016/j.jml.2013.09.009.
  • Mayor, Julien & Plunkett, Kim (2011). A statistical estimate of infant and toddler vocabulary size from CDI analysis. Developmental Science. ISSN 1363-755X. 14(4), s. 769–785. doi: 10.1111/j.1467-7687.2010.01024.x.
  • Mayor, Julien (2010). Are Scientists Nearsighted Gamblers? The Misleading Nature of Impact Factors. Frontiers in Psychology. ISSN 1664-1078. 1(215).
  • Mayor, Julien & Plunkett, Kim (2010). A neurocomputational account of taxonomic responding and fast mapping in early word learning. Psychological review. ISSN 0033-295X. 117(1).
  • Gliozzi, Valentina; Mayor, Julien; Hu, Jon-Fan & Plunkett, Kim (2009). Labels as features (not names) for infant categorization: A neurocomputational approach. Cognitive Science. ISSN 0364-0213. 33(4), s. 709–738.
  • Mayor, Julien & Gerstner, Wulfram (2005). Noise-enhanced computation in a model of a cortical column. NeuroReport. ISSN 0959-4965. 16(11), s. 1237–1240.
  • Mayor, Julien & Gerstner, Wulfram (2005). Signal buffering in random networks of spiking neurons: Microscopic versus macroscopic phenomena. Physical Review E. Statistical, Nonlinear, and Soft Matter Physics. ISSN 1539-3755. 72(5).
  • Mayor, Julien & Gerstner, Wulfram (2004). Transient information flow in a network of excitatory and inhibitory model neurons: Role of noise and signal autocorrelation. Journal of Physiology - Paris. ISSN 0928-4257. 98(4-6), s. 417–428.

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  • Serres, Nora Rose; Mayor, Julien & Kartushina, Natalia (2023). The role of dialect variability on mispronunciation sensitivity: An insight to infants’ early language development from a Norwegian context.
  • Rosslund, Audun; Hagelund, Silje; Mayor, Julien & Kartushina, Natalia (2023). Mothers’ and fathers’ infant- directed speech have similar acoustic properties, but these are not associated with direct or indirect measures of word comprehension in 8-month-old infants.
  • Munoz, Luis Eduardo; Rosslund, Audun; Mayor, Julien & Kartushina, Natalia (2023). No evidence of native sound discrimination in Norwegian 9-month-old infants using an eye-tracking habituation paradigm.
  • Rosslund, Audun; Kartushina, Natalia & Mayor, Julien (2023). Associations between shared book reading and vocabulary size are stronger among lower-SES infants.
  • Hatlevoll, Nina Emilie Varjola; Rosslund, Audun; Mayor, Julien & Kartushina, Natalia (2023). Voice onset time in Norwegian infant directed speech: A longitudinal study on the relationship between consonant production in parents’ IDS and infants’ babbling.
  • Richie-Halford, Adam; Cieslak, Matthew; Ai, Lei; Caffarra, Sendy; Covitz, Sydney & Franco, Alexandre R. [Vis alle 121 forfattere av denne artikkelen] (2023). Author Correction: An analysis-ready and quality controlled resource for pediatric brain white-matter research (Scientific Data, (2022), 9, 1, (616), 10.1038/s41597-022-01695-7). Scientific Data. ISSN 2052-4463. 10(1). doi: 10.1038/s41597-023-02137-8.
  • Richie-Halford, Adam; Cieslak, Matthew; Ai, Lei; Caffarra, Sendy; Covitz, Sydney & Franco, Alexandre R. [Vis alle 139 forfattere av denne artikkelen] (2022). Publisher Correction: An analysis-ready and quality controlled resource for pediatric brain white-matter research (Scientific Data, (2022), 9, 1, (616), 10.1038/s41597-022-01695-7). Scientific Data. ISSN 2052-4463. 9(1). doi: 10.1038/s41597-022-01770-z.
  • Rosslund, Audun; Mayor, Julien & Kartushina, Natalia (2022). Barns ordforråd skjøt fart når barnehagene stengte ned under pandemien. Første steg. ISSN 1504-1891.
  • Rosslund, Audun; Mayor, Julien; Óturai, Gabriella & Kartushina, Natalia (2022). Parents’ hyper pitch and vowel category compactness in infant-directed speech are associated with 18-month-old toddlers’ expressive vocabulary.
  • Rosslund, Audun; Mayor, Julien; Óturai, Gabriella & Kartushina, Natalia (2022). Parents’ hyper pitch and vowel category compactness in infant-directed speech are associated with 18-month-old toddlers’ expressive vocabulary.
  • Rosslund, Audun; Mayor, Julien; Óturai, Gabriella & Kartushina, Natalia (2022). Parents’ hyper pitch and vowel category compactness in infant-directed speech are associated with 18-month-old toddlers’ expressive vocabulary.
  • Rosslund, Audun; Roepstorff, Ida; Lo, Chang Huan; Chai, Jun Ho; Mayor, Julien & Kartushina, Natalia (2022). Alignments between direct tablet-based assessment of word comprehension and parent reports depend on child’s age and word properties.
  • Rosslund, Audun; Mayor, Julien; Óturai, Gabriella & Kartushina, Natalia (2022). Parents’ hyper pitch and vowel category compactness in infant-directed speech are associated with 18-month-old toddlers’ expressive vocabulary.
  • Muñoz, Luis Eduardo; Kartushina, Natalia & Mayor, Julien (2022). Sustained Pacifier Use is Associated with Smaller Vocabulary sizes at 1 and 2 Years of Age.
  • Munoz, Luis Eduardo; Kartushina, Natalia & Mayor, Julien (2022). Season-of-birth effects on infant vocabulary size.
  • Munoz, Luis Eduardo; Kartushina, Natalia & Mayor, Julien (2022). Sustained Pacifier Use is Associated with Smaller Vocabulary Sizes at 1 and 2 Years of Age.
  • Munoz, Luis Eduardo; Kartushina, Natalia & Mayor, Julien (2022). Season-of-Birth Effects on Infant Vocabulary Size.
  • Bochynska, Agata; Quintana, Daniel; Mayor, Julien; Leknes, Siri; Roettger, Timo & Mayiwar, Lewend [Vis alle 7 forfattere av denne artikkelen] (2022). Fram for troverdig forskning: Forskningen må være gjennomsiktig og etterprøvbar. Forskerforum. ISSN 0800-1715. 54(4), s. 38–39.
  • Rosslund, Audun; Mayor, Julien; Óturai, Gabriella & Kartushina, Natalia (2021). Babytalk in Tromsø.
  • Rosslund, Audun; Kartushina, Natalia; Mayor, Julien; Chai, Jun Ho & Lo, Chang Huan (2021). Tablet assessment of word comprehension reveals coarse word representations in 18-20-month-old toddlers.
  • Kartushina, Natalia; Robberstad, Silje; Munoz, Luis Eduardo & Mayor, Julien (2021). Acoustic properties of Norwegian infant-directed speech and their role in language development of 8-9-month-old infants.
  • Rother, Nicolas; Burtscher, Michael Josef; Gobet, Fernand; Mantzouranis, Gregory; Mayor, Julien & Pirrone, Angelo [Vis alle 9 forfattere av denne artikkelen] (2021). The beginning of a new era. Swiss Psychology Open (SPO). ISSN 2752-5341. 1(1). doi: 10.5334/spo.27.
  • Mayor, Julien; Gomez, Pablo; Chang, Franklin & Lupyan, Gary (2014). Connectionism coming of age: legacy and future challenges. Frontiers in Psychology. ISSN 1664-1078. 5(187).

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