Professor Usha Goswami

Usha Goswami

University position

Professor

Departments

Department of Psychology

Institutes

Centre for Neuroscience in Education

Email

ucg10@cam.ac.uk

Home page

http://www.cne.psychol.cam.ac.uk/

Research Theme

Cognitive and Behavioural Neuroscience

The Cambridge Neuroscience Community

Interests

I am the Director of the Centre for Neuroscience in Education. The Centre uses EEG and fNIRS to explore the developing brain. Key research projects include the neural basis of developmental dyslexia, the neural basis of speech and language impairments, and the neural basis of rhythmic motor behaviour. Funding comes from the MRC, EU Framework VI, the ESRC and The Leverhulme Trust.

Research Focus

Keywords

cognitive

development

psychology

EEG

Clinical conditions

Childhood disorders

Dyslexia

Hearing and balance deficits

Language disorders

Learning disabilities

Equipment

Behavioural analysis

Electroencephalography (EEG)

Neuropsychological testing

Collaborators

No collaborators listed

Key publications

Beddington J, Cooper CL, Field J, Goswami U, Huppert FA, Jenkins R, Jones HS, Kirkwood TBL, Sahakian BJ & Thomas SM (2008), “The mental wealth of nations. ” Nature 455: 1057-1060.

Goswami U (2006), “Neuroscience and education: from research to practice?” Nat Rev Neurosci 7(5):406-11 Details

Ziegler J & Goswami U (2005), “Reading acquisition, developmental dyslexia, and skilled reading across languages: a psycholinguistic grain size theory” Psychol Bull

Publications

2011

Goswami U (2011), “A temporal sampling framework for developmental dyslexia.” Trends Cogn Sci 15(1):3-10 Details

Goswami U, Wang HL, Cruz A, Fosker T, Mead N, Huss M (2011), “Language-universal sensory deficits in developmental dyslexia: English, Spanish, and Chinese.” J Cogn Neurosci 23(2):325-37 Details