Imac Maria Zambrana
Associate Professor
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Department of Special Needs Education
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Email
i.m.zambrana@isp.uio.no
Phone
+47-22856073
Room
482
Username
Visiting address
Sem Sælands vei 7
Helga Engs hus
0371 OSLO
Postal address
Postboks 1140 Blindern
0318 OSLO
Academic interests
- Language development & delays
- Early communication and social cognitive skills
- Learning mechanisms and social learning processes
Background
- 2017-2018: Visiting Scholar, Harvard Graduate School of Education, Harvard University
- 2016 – d.d.: Associate Professor, Department of Department of Special Needs Education, University of Oslo
- 2016 – d.d.: Researcher, Norwegian Center for Child Behavioral Development (NUBU)
- 2012-2016: Post-doctoral Fellow, The Norwegian Center for Child Behavioral Development
- 2014-2015: Project-affiliated researcher, Dept. of Mental Health, Norwegian Institute of Public Health
- 2013: Post-Doctoral Visiting Fellow, Harvard Graduate School of Education, Harvard University
- 2012 – 2012: Researcher, Dept. of Mental Health, Norwegian Institute of Public Health
- 2012: Ph.D. in Psychology, University of Oslo. Title: “Predicting delay in language development. A longitudinal cohort study from 18 months to 5 years of age.”
- 2009 – 2012: Ph.D. Fellow, Dept. of Mental Health, Norwegian Institute of Public Health
Awards, grants and funding
- 2018: Faculty qualifying research grant for female Associate Professors (Equality grant), Faculty of Educational Sciences, University of Oslo
- 2018: Faculty research grant, Department of Special Needs Education, University of Oslo
- 2017 – 2020: Mobility grants North America in educational research (UTNAM) for Dr. M. Rowe, project no 271841, The Research Council of Norway
- 2017 – 2018: Personal Overseas Grants (FINNUT), project no 270461, The Research Council of Norway
- 2017 – 2018: Fulbright Fellowship grant, Fulbright Foundation
- 2017: Internal teaching grant, Department of Special Needs Education, University of Oslo
- 2017: Internal research grant, Department of Special Needs Education, University of Oslo
- 2015 – 2020: “Children’s Information Seeking: Its Development and Impacts on Learning” (Young Research Talents grant), project no 254974, Norwegian Research Council
- 2013: “The influence of child care and home environment on learning and social functioning in transition to school and early school age” (Personal Mobility Grant), project no 224797/F11, Norwegian Research Council
- 2012: The Psychological Department’s Ph.D. Research Price, Faculty of Social Sciences/ Dept. of Psychology, University of Oslo
- 2009 – 2012: “Identification of preverbal precursors for early language delays and different language delay trajectories” (Ph.D. project grant), project no 2008/2/0003, Health and Rehabilitation, Norwegian Extra funds
- 2007: Student travelling grant, UNIFOR
Publications
- Zambrana, Imac Maria; Ogden, Terje & Zachrisson, Henrik Daae (2019). Can Pre-Academic Activities in Norway’s Early Childhood Education and Care Program Boost Later Academic Achievements in Preschoolers at Risk?. Scandinavian Journal of Educational Research. ISSN 0031-3831. . doi: https://doi.org/10.1080/00313831.2019.1577751
- Ronfard, Samuel; Zambrana, Imac Maria; Hermansen, Tone Kristine & Kelemen, Deborah (2018). Question-asking in childhood: A review of the literature and a framework for understanding its development. Developmental Review. ISSN 0273-2297. 49, s 101- 120 . doi: 10.1016/j.dr.2018.05.002
- Gjerde, Line C.; Eilertsen, Espen Moen; Reichborn-Kjennerud, Ted; McAdams, Tom A.; Zachrisson, Henrik Daae; Zambrana, Imac Maria; Røysamb, Espen; Kendler, Kenneth S. & Ystrøm, Eivind (2017). Maternal perinatal and concurrent depressive symptoms and child behavior problems: a sibling comparison study. Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry and Allied Disciplines. ISSN 0021-9630. 58(7), s 779- 786 . doi: 10.1111/jcpp.12704 Full text in Research Archive.
- Nordahl, Kristin Berg; Zambrana, Imac Maria & Forgatch, Marion S. (2016). Risk and Protective Factors Related to Fathers’ Positive Involvement and Negative Reinforcement With 1-Year-Olds. Parenting, science and practice. ISSN 1529-5192. 16(1), s 1- 21 . doi: 10.1080/15295192.2016.1116891
- Viana, Karine Maria Porpino; Zambrana, Imac Maria; Karevold, Evalill Bølstad & Pons, Francisco (2016). Beyond Conceptual Knowledge: The Impact of Children’s Theory-of-Mind on Dyadic Spatial Tasks. Frontiers in Psychology. ISSN 1664-1078. 7(1635) . doi: 10.3389/fpsyg.2016.01635
- Zambrana, Imac Maria; Vollrath, Margarete E.; Sengpiel, Verena; Jacobsson, Bo & Ystrøm, Eivind (2016). Preterm delivery and risk for early language delays: A sibling-control cohort study. International Journal of Epidemiology. ISSN 0300-5771. 45(1), s 151- 159 . doi: 10.1093/ije/dyv329
- Zambrana, Imac Maria; Dearing, Eric; Nærde, Ane & Zachrisson, Henrik Daae (2015). Time in early childhood education and care and language competence in Norwegian four-year-old girls and boys. European Early Childhood Education Research Journal. ISSN 1350-293X. 24(6), s 793- 806 . doi: 10.1080/1350293X.2015.1035538
- Zambrana, Imac Maria; Pons, Francisco; Eadie, Patricia & Ystrøm, Eivind (2014). Trajectories of language delay from age 3 to 5: Persistence, recovery and late onset. International journal of language and communication disorders. ISSN 1368-2822. 49(3), s 304- 316 . doi: 10.1111/1460-6984.12073
- Zambrana, Imac Maria; Ystrøm, Eivind; Schjølberg, Synnve & Pons, Francisco (2013). Action imitation at 1½ years is better than pointing gesture in predicting late development of language production at 3 years of age. Child Development. ISSN 0009-3920. 84(2), s 560- 573 . doi: 10.1111/j.1467-8624.2012.01872.x
- Zambrana, Imac Maria; Ystrøm, Eivind & Pons, Francisco (2012). Impact of gender, maternal education, and birth order on the development of language comprehension: A longitudinal study from 18 to 36 months of age. Journal of Developmental and Behavioral Pediatrics. ISSN 0196-206X. 33(2), s 146- 155 . doi: 10.1097/DBP.0b013e31823d4f83
- Coley, John; Krigger, A; Lane, Gabi A; Marlin, J & Zambrana, Imac Maria (2018). Ecological thinking in preschoolers: Evidence from free play..
- Zambrana, Imac Maria (2018). Developmental patterns in communication and parent-child learning interactions.
- Zambrana, Imac Maria & Coley, John (2018). The role of pedagogical instruction in children’s ecological thinking and behavior.
- Hermansen, Tone Kristine; Ronfard, Samuel; Harris, Paul L.; Pons, Francisco & Zambrana, Imac Maria (2017). Are preschoolers’ questions impacted by prior inconsistent experiences during first-hand exploration?.
- Nærde, Ane; Zambrana, Imac Maria; Owen, Margaret Tresch & Ystrom, Eivind (2017). Bi-directional Relations Between Maternal and Paternal Depressive Symptoms and Child Externalizing Behavior Across Early Childhood.
- Viana, Karine Maria Porpino; Zambrana, Imac Maria; Karevold, Evalill Bølstad & Pons, Francisco (2017). Mental state understanding in typical and atypical development: social, parental and individual influencing factors. Paper.
- Zambrana, Imac Maria (2017). Children’s Early Information Seeking.
- Zambrana, Imac Maria (2017). Mother-child information transmissions in structural task interactions in early childhood.
- Zambrana, Imac Maria (2017). Parent-Child Interactions and the Development of Early Information Seeking.
- Zambrana, Imac Maria; Harris, Paul L.; Ronfard, Samuel & Rowe, Meredith (2017). Preliminary associations between children's need for information and mothers' provision of information in task situations from 1 to 3 years of age.
- Zambrana, Imac Maria; Ogden, Terje & Zachrisson, Henrik Daae (2017). Can pre-academic activities in ECEC boost later academic achievements in preschoolers with externalizing behaviors?.
- Zambrana, Imac Maria (2016). Barn med eksternaliserende problematferd og førskoleaktiviteter i barnehagen.
- Zambrana, Imac Maria (2016). Children's help and Information seeking.
- Nordahl, Kristin B.; Forgatch, Marion S. & Zambrana, Imac Maria (2015). Predictors of Fathers’ Positive Involvement and Negative Reinforcement with One-Year-Olds.
- Zambrana, Imac Maria (2015). Relations Between Childcare and Preschool skills: New findings from The Behavior Outlook Norwegian Developmental Study.
- Zambrana, Imac Maria (2015). elations Between Childcare and Preschool skills: New findings from The Behavior Outlook Norwegian Developmental Study.
- Zambrana, Imac Maria & Ronfard, Samuel (2015). Linking Children’s Actions with Objects to Child-Directed Speech About Objects.
- Zachrisson, Henrik Daae; Dearing, Eric; Zambrana, Imac Maria & Nærde, Ane (2014). Språkkompetanse hos 4-åringer som har gått i barnehage.
- Zambrana, Imac Maria (2014). Distinksjonen mellom hva som ble sagt og hvordan det ble sagt.
- Zambrana, Imac Maria; Dearing, Eric; Nordahl, Kristin B.; Moser, Thomas & Zachrisson, Henrik Daae (2013). Childcare quality and peer groups: Associations with language and social skills.
- Zambrana, Imac Maria (2012). Predicting delay in language development: a longitudinal cohort study from 18 months to 5 years of age. Series of Dissertations submitted to the Faculty of Social Sciences, University of Oslo. 338.
- Zambrana, Imac Maria; Ystrøm, Eivind & Pons, Francisco (2011). Predicting late development of language comprehension from 18 to 36 months. Paper.
- Zambrana, Imac Maria; Ystrøm, Eivind & Pons, Francisco (2010). Early nonverbal communication and language from 18 to 36 months: A population study. Poster.
- Schjølberg, Synnve; Lekhal, Ratib; Wang, Mari Vaage; Zambrana, Imac Maria; Mathiesen, Kristin Schjelderup; Magnus, Per & Roth, Christine (2008). Forsinket språkutvikling. En foreløpig oversikt basert på data fra Den norske mor og barn undersøkelsen. rapport Nasjonalt folkehelseinstitutt. 2008:10. Full text in Research Archive.
- Zambrana, Imac Maria & Schjølberg, Synnve (2007). Do maternal responses towards children with language disorder reflect the language level of the children. Show summary
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