Linda Forssman

Articles in journals

• Wengman, J. & Forssman, L. (2025). Developmental Relationships Between Early Vocabulary Acquisition, Joint Attention and Parental Supportive Behaviors.  Infancy, 30 (1). [BibTeX]
• Tu, H. , Forssman, L. , Fransson, E. & Skalkidou, A. (2025). Do the early social environment and persistent peripartum depressive symptoms shape toddlers' expressive language?.  JCPP Advances, 5 (3). [BibTeX]
• Gerbrand, A. , Wengman, J. & Forssman, L. (2025). Gazing into language development: Exploring individual variability in early word recognition in infancy through eye-tracking.  Infancy, 30 (4). [BibTeX]
• Gredebäck, G. , Astor, K. , Ainamani, H. , van den Berg, L. , Forssman, L. , Hall, J. , Juvrud, J. , Kenward, B. & et al. (2025). Infant Gaze Following Is Stable Across Markedly Different Cultures and Resilient to Family Adversities Associated With War and Climate Change.  Psychological Science, 36 (4), 296-307. [BibTeX]
• Galeano, L. , Fawcett, C. , Forssman, L. & Gredebäck, G. (2024). Early Childhood Educators' Math Anxiety and Its Relation to Their Pedagogic Actions in Swedish Preschools.  Journal of Cognition and Development, 25 (1), 100-126. [BibTeX]
• Schröder, E. , Gredebäck, G. , Forssman, L. & Lindskog, M. (2022). Predicting children's emerging understanding of numbers.  Developmental Science, 25 (3). [BibTeX]
• Gerbrand, A. , Gredebäck, G. , Hedenius, M. , Forssman, L. & Lindskog, M. (2022). Statistical learning in infancy predicts vocabulary size in toddlerhood.  Infancy, 27 (4), 700-719. [BibTeX]
• Forssman, L. & Gottwald, J. (2022). The impact of interactive book sharing on child cognitive and socio-cognitive development (the REaL trial): study protocol for a randomized controlled trial.  Trials, 23. [BibTeX]
• Astor, K. , Lindskog, M. , Forssman, L. , Kenward, B. , Fransson, M. , Skalkidou, A. , Tharner, A. , Cassé, J. & et al. (2020). Social and emotional contexts predict the development of gaze following in early infancy.  Royal Society Open Science, 7 (9). [BibTeX]
• Marciszko, C. , Forssman, L. , Kenward, B. , Lindskog, M. , Fransson, M. & Gredebäck, G. (2020). The social foundation of executive function.  Developmental Science, 23 (3). [BibTeX]
• Forssman, L. , Ashorn, P. , Ashorn, U. , Maleta, K. , Matchado, A. , Kortekangas, E. & Leppänen, J. M. (2017). Eye-tracking-based assessment of cognitive function in low-resource settings.  Archives of Disease in Childhood, 102 (4), 311-315. [BibTeX]
• Kenward, B. , Koch, F. , Forssman, L. , Brehm, J. , Tidemann, I. , Sundqvist, A. , Marciszko, C. , Hermansen, T. K. & et al. (2017). Saccadic Reaction Times in Infants and Adults: Spatiotemporal Factors, Gender, and Interlaboratory Variation.  Developmental Psychology, 53 (9), 1750-1764. [BibTeX]
• Peltola, M. J. , Forssman, L. , Puura, K. , van IJzendoorn, M. H. & Leppänen, J. M. (2015). Attention to Faces Expressing Negative Emotion at 7 Months Predicts Attachment Security at 14 Months.  Child Development, 86 (5), 1321-1332. [BibTeX]
• Leppänen, J. M. , Forssman, L. , Kaatiala, J. , Yrttiaho, S. & Wass, S. (2015). Widely applicable MATLAB routines for automated analysis of saccadic reaction times.  Behavior Research Methods, 47 (2), 538-548. [BibTeX]
• Kaatiala, J. , Yrttiaho, S. , Forssman, L. , Perdue, K. & Leppänen, J. (2014). A graphical user interface for infant ERP analysis.  Behavior Research Methods, 46 (3), 745-757. [BibTeX]
• Johansson, M. , Forssman, L. & Bohlin, G. (2014). Individual differences in 10-month-olds' performance on the A-not-B task.  Scandinavian Journal of Psychology, 55 (2), 130-135. [BibTeX]
• Forssman, L. , Peltola, M. J. , Yrttiaho, S. , Puura, K. , Mononen, N. , Lehtimäki, T. & Leppänen, J. M. (2014). Regulatory variant of the TPH2 gene and early life stress are associated with heightened attention to social signals of fear in infants.  Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry, 55 (7), 793-801. [BibTeX]
• Wass, S. , Forssman, L. & Leppänen, J. (2014). Robustness and Precision: How Data Quality May Influence Key Dependent Variables in Infant Eye-Tracker Analyses.  Infancy, 19 (5), 427-460. [BibTeX]

Conference papers

• Gerbrand, A. , Wengman, J. & Forssman, L. (2023). Development and assessment of early word recognition. Paper presented at 8th Lancaster International Conference on Infant and Early Child Development, Lancaster, UK, August 23-25, 2023. [BibTeX]

Doctoral theses, comprehensive summaries

• Forssman, L. (2012). Attention and the Early Development of Cognitive Control: Infants’ and Toddlers’ Performance on the A-not-B task. (Doctoral dissertation). (Comprehensive summary) Uppsala: Acta Universitatis Upsaliensis. [BibTeX]

Reports

• Forssman, L. , Ashorn, P. , Ashorn, U. , Maleta, K. & Leppänen, J. (2015). Assessing the Feasibility of Using Eye Tracking to Study Infants’ Cognitive Functioning in Rural Malawi. Washington: Food and Nutrition Technical Assistance III Project. [BibTeX]