Linda Forssman
Researcher at Department of Psychology; Developmental Psychology
- Telephone:
- +46 18 471 57 51
- E-mail:
- linda.forssman@psyk.uu.se
- Visiting address:
- Von Kraemers allé 1A och 1C
752 37 Uppsala - Postal address:
- Box 1225
751 42 UPPSALA
- ORCID:
- 0000-0003-0208-4212
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Short presentation
I am an Associate Professor in the Department of Psychology, Uppsala University, and part of the Uppsala Child & Baby Lab research group.
In my research, my primary focus revolves around understanding how young children perceive and engage with their world, and how various experiences shape the development of their cognitive, social and language skills in early childhood.
Biography
Professional Appointments and Experience
2016 - Present, Senior Researcher and Project Leader, Department of Psychology, Uppsala University, Sweden. *Includes parental leave equivalent to 16 months
2019, Associate professor (Docent) at Uppsala University
2018 - 2019, Lecturer (50%), Department of Psychology, Stockholm University, Sweden
2012 - 2015, Post-doctoral researcher, School of Medicine, University of Tampere, Finland
2012, Phd in Psychology, Uppsala University, Sweden
Teaching Experience
Currently main supervisor to 1 PhD student and second supervisor to 1 PhD student.
Second supervisor to 1 completed PhD.
Supervised more than 30 master and BA thesis students.
Example of other previous teaching experiences:
Course leader for Developmental Psychology, International Master's Program, Developmental Psychology I & II (Department of Psychology, Stockholm University), Developmental Psychology II, Sex, Gender & Ethnicity, The Social Brain and Language Development (Department of Psychology, Uppsala University)
University teacher training courses
2023 Workshop: Sharing good practices for ethical thesis supervision (1 day, Uppsala University)
2021 Active students in team work (1 week, Uppsala University)
2019 Supervision of undergraduate students (2 weeks, Uppsala University)
2019 Supervision of PhD students (3 weeks, Uppsala University)
2009 Academic teacher training course (5 weeks, Uppsala University)
2007 Gender aware pedagogy (1 week, Uppsala University)
Research
Grant Founding
En förebyggande föräldrainsats för att främja tidig språkutveckling hos barn som växer upp i socioekonomiskt missgynnade områden. (A preventive parenting intervention to promote early language development in children growing up in socioeconomically disadvantaged areas). Principal Investigator, Founded by the Jane and Dan Olsson Foundation, €44, 300 (2024).
Nordiskt forskningsnätverk för evidensbaserad förskola av hög kvalitet för social rättvisa. (Nordic evidence based high quality early childhood education and care research network for social justice). Co-Investigator, Founded by the Swedish Research Council. (2023-03877). €102,500 (2023-2026).
Proportionell universalism i praktiken – ett program för studier av universella, selektiva och indikerade insatser för att stärka barns välbefinnande och psykisk hälsa under de första fem åren. (Proportionate universalism in action-an early life program to explore a mix of universal, selected and indicated approaches to child wellbeing and mental health). Co-Investigator, Founded by Forte: Forskningsrådet för hälsa, arbetsliv och välfärd (Program: 2023-01144), €1,683,000. (2023-2029)
Vilken betydelse har förskolans kvalitet för barns kunskapsutveckling i förskoleklass? (How preschool quality relates to children’s learning outcomes). Principal Investigator, Founded by the Swedish Institute for Educational Research, €454,000. (2022-2024)
Arbetsmarknadsintegration i föränderliga tider (Understanding and advancing labor market integration in transitional times). Co-Investigator, Founded by Forte: Forskningsrådet för hälsa, arbetsliv och välfärd (Program: 2021-01570), €1,632,000. (2021-2027)
Quality indicators for Uppsala preschools. Co-Investigator, Founded by Uppsala municipality. €400, 000. (2021-2023)
Förskola för barnets bästa: Ett centrum för förskoleforskning. Co-Investigator, Founded by Skandia, Idéer för livet, €149,000. (2020-2021)
The Impact of Book-Sharing on Infant Language and Cognition: A Randomized Controlled Trial. Principal investigator, Founded by Riksbankens Jubileumsfond – the Swedish Foundation for Humanities and Social Sciences. Project P18-0300:1, €362,000. (2019-2022)
The Impact of Book-Sharing on Infant Language and Cognition: A randomized-controlled pilot study. Principal investigator, Founded by Majblommans Riksförbund & Stiftelsen Sigurd och Elsa Goljes Minne. €11,900. (2018-2019)
Assessing cognitive and social development of young infants in low-income settings: feasibility and validity of a novel eye-tracking method (MiTrack). Co-investigator, Funded by Food and Nutritional Technical Assistance III (FANTA) Project (AID-OAA-A-12-00005), €321,000. (2014-2016)
Early development of cognitive processes involved in goal-directed behaviors. Principal Investigator, Sven Jerring Foundation, Alrutz´& Helge Ax:son Johnson Foundation, Total €8,900. (2010)
Publications
Recent publications
- Early Childhood Educators' Math Anxiety and Its Relation to Their Pedagogic Actions in Swedish Preschools (2024)
- Development and assessment of early word recognition (2023)
- Can interactive book-sharing improve infants' language acquisition and socio-cognitive skills? (2022)
- The impact of interactive book sharing on child cognitive and socio-cognitive development (the REaL trial) (2022)
- Statistical learning in infancy predicts vocabulary size in toddlerhood (2022)
All publications
Articles
- Early Childhood Educators' Math Anxiety and Its Relation to Their Pedagogic Actions in Swedish Preschools (2024)
- The impact of interactive book sharing on child cognitive and socio-cognitive development (the REaL trial) (2022)
- Statistical learning in infancy predicts vocabulary size in toddlerhood (2022)
- Predicting children's emerging understanding of numbers (2022)
- Social and emotional contexts predict the development of gaze following in early infancy (2020)
- The social foundation of executive function (2020)
- Early development of visual attention in infants in rural Malawi (2019)
- Training basic visual attention leads to changes in responsiveness to social communication cues in 9-month-old infants (2018)
- Eye-tracking-based assessment of cognitive function in low-resource settings (2017)
- Saccadic Reaction Times in Infants and Adults (2017)
- Widely applicable MATLAB routines for automated analysis of saccadic reaction times (2015)
- Attention to Faces Expressing Negative Emotion at 7 Months Predicts Attachment Security at 14 Months (2015)
- Eighteen-month-olds' ability to make gaze predictions following distraction or a long delay (2014)
- Regulatory variant of the TPH2 gene and early life stress are associated with heightened attention to social signals of fear in infants (2014)
- Individual differences in 10-month-olds' performance on the A-not-B task (2014)
- A graphical user interface for infant ERP analysis (2014)
- Robustness and Precision (2014)
- Developmental precursors of social brain networks (2014)
- The Emergence and Stability of the Attentional Bias to Fearful Faces in Infancy (2013)
- Cognitive Functioning and Family Risk Factors in Relation to Symptom Behaviors of ADHD and ODD in Adolescents (2012)
- Attention demands influence 10- and 12-month-old infants' perseverative behavior. (2012)
- The Relation Between Working Memory Components and ADHD Symptoms From a Developmental Perspective (2011)
- Independent contributions of cognitive functioning and social risk factors to symptoms of ADHD in two Nordic population-based cohorts (2009)
Books
Conferences
- Development and assessment of early word recognition (2023)
- Can interactive book-sharing improve infants' language acquisition and socio-cognitive skills? (2022)
- The PreQuEL project: How preschool quality relates to children’s learning outcomes. (2022)
- Understanding and training infants’ attention (2015)
- Can gaze-interactive training be used as an intervention method to improve core attention processes in infancy? (2015)
- Threat-Related Attentional Biases at 7 Months: Associations With Later Attachment Security. (2015)
- Antecedents of attachment security in infancy: Attention and neural responses to negative emotions (2015)
- Attention and neural responses to fearful faces at 7 months: Associations with later attachment security (2015)
- Data quality may affect many key dependent variables in eye tracker analyses - both in experimental and free-viewing paradigms (2015)
- Using a novel gaze-contingent eye-tracking method to improve core cognitive processes in infancy (2014)
- Training non-social attention control improves infants’ socio-cognitive abilities (2014)
- Paper presentation entitled: Eye-tracking markers of early neurodevelopment in human infants (2014)
- Towards novel, widely-applicable markers of early childhood development in at-risk populations (2014)
- Attachment-Related Individual Differences in Attention and Neural Responses to Emotional Expressions at 5 and 7 Months of age (2014)
- Attention to Facial Expressions of Emotions in Infancy (2013)
- Antecedents of attachment: Attentional responses to social signals of emotion in infancy (2013)
- Individual Differences in Behavior on an Exploratory Version of the A-not-B task (2012)
- The role of attentional demand in 10-, 12-, and 18-month-olds’ perseverative behavior in a looking version of an A-not-B task (2011)
- Cognitive functioning and social risk factors in relation to symptoms of ADHD and ODD in adolescents (2009)
- ADHD symptoms and specific working memory components: a developmental perspective (2009)
- Complex WM Span Performance From a Developmental Perspective (2008)
Reports
