• Attitudes towards mathematics, achievement, and drop-out intentions among STEM and Non-STEM students in Norway 

      Óturai, Gabriella; Riener, Cordian; Martiny, Sarah (Journal article; Tidsskriftartikkel; Peer reviewed, 2023-02-22)
      High mathematical ability is central in many domains. In the present study, we investigated relations between students’ high school mathematics background and current study program, and various mathematics-related outcomes. We expected that students who had attended higher-level mathematics courses in high school would report more positive attitudes towards mathematics and higher achievement in ...
    • Developmental trend towards exact imitation in the second year of life: Evidence from a longitudinal study 

      Óturai, Gabriella; Kolling, Thorsten; Knopf, Monika (Journal article; Tidsskriftartikkel; Peer reviewed, 2017-06-11)
      Findings from previous cross-sectional studies showed that while toddlers around their first birthday imitate selectively, that is, they systematically omit some kinds of target action steps or they copy only the goal, but not the means of the modeled actions, older toddlers imitate more exactly. The aim of the present article is to provide longitudinal evidence for this developmental trend and to ...
    • Parents’ hyper-pitch and low vowel category variability in infant-directed speech are associated with 18-month-old toddlers’ expressive vocabulary 

      Rosslund, Audun; Mayor, Julien; Óturai, Gabriella; Kartushina, Natalia (Journal article; Tidsskriftartikkel; Peer reviewed, 2022-12-31)
      The present study examines the acoustic properties of infant-directed speech (IDS) as compared to adult-directed speech (ADS) in Norwegian parents of 18-month-old toddlers, and whether these properties relate to toddlers’ expressive vocabulary size. Twenty-one parent-toddler dyads from Tromsø, Northern Norway participated in the study. Parents (16 mothers, 5 fathers), speaking a Northern Norwegian ...
    • A variation of the social context in the warm-up period influences 18-month-olds’ imitation 

      Kim, Ziyon; Óturai, Gabriella; Király, Ildikó; Hirte, Monika; Knopf, Monika (Journal article; Tidsskriftartikkel; Peer reviewed, 2018-02-06)
      The present study aimed to investigate how the prior social disposition of a model in a warm-up period influences 18-month-old infants’ subsequent imitation. Infants were randomly assigned to an interactive and social warm-up period (<i>n</i> = 19) or a non-interactive and non-social warm-up period (<i>n</i> = 19) with the model prior to the imitation task. They then participated in an imitation ...