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Solvita Umbraško

Solvita Umbraško, PhD

Assistant Professor,  Senior Researcher

e-pastssolvita.umbrasko@lu.lv 
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Dr. Solvita Umbraško is an Assistant Professor and Senior Researcher at the Faculty of Education Sciences and Psychology, UL. She specializes in test construction, adaptation, validation, and psychometrics, as well as the standardization of tests within nationally representative samples. Umbraško has extensive experience in developing and implementing research projects with various designs, including experimental studies. She has contributed to multiple interdisciplinary research projects. Her research interests include cognitive psychology (visual-spatial abilities, perception, language, and reading skills) and the advancement of interdisciplinary research.

 

Cognitive Psychology: Psycholinguistics

Psychological help for children with learning and developmental disabilities

Pedagogical psychology

 
 

Psycholinguistics (language learning, language perception, language formation, etc.). Literacy. Children with hearing impairment (development, communication, sign language). Visual-spatial abilities, perception.

 
 

Šķilters, J., Zariņa, L., Ceple, I., Monstvilaite, A., Umbraško, S., Bartušēvica, S., & Pinna, B. (2024). Expressions of emotions in minimal face perception stimuli. I-Perception, 15(6). doi.org/10.1177/20416695241291648

Zariņa, L., Šķilters, J., Umbraško, S., & Bartušēvica, S. (2024). Combining and segmenting geometric shapes into parts depending on symmetry type: Evidence from children and adults. I-Perception, 15(1). doi.org/10.1177/20416695231226157

Šķilters, J., Zariņa, L., Luguzis, A., Bāliņa, S., Umbraško, S., & Apse, L. (2023). Color-emotion mappings and their demographic dependencies in digital environment: online test evidence using MS Paint 7 color palette. Baltic J. Modern Computing, 11(3), 354–382. doi.org/10.22364/bjmc.2023.11.3.01