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Our study funded by the Fondation Botnar has recently published new findings.

23 July 2024

A new publication from the project funded by the Fondation Botnar has published in the Frontiers in Psychology journal, July 2024. When children learn to speak, they learn the special “sound shape” of words in their language. For example, in English they learn that ‘broom’ and ‘bread’ begin in the same way. They come to be...

A new publication has been released from the project funded by the Yidan Foundation

18 June 2024

A new publication from the project funded by the Yidan Foundation has been published in the Frontiers in Human Neuroscience Journal, in June 2024. Atypical low-frequency cortical encoding of speech identifies children with developmental dyslexia Slow cortical oscillations play a crucial role in processing the speech...

New research findings have been published from the BabyRhythm project, funded by the European Research Council (ERC).

18 March 2024

New research findings have been published from the BabyRhythm project, funded by the European Research Council (ERC). A recent publication reveals how the infant brain tracks the rhythm of visual speech, and how this has implications for later language development. As part of the BabyRhythm project, in which infants’ brain...

Our study funded by the Fondation Botnar project has recently published findings in the Clinical Neurophysiology Journal.

4 March 2024

Our study funded by the Fondation Botnar project has recently published findings in the Clinical Neurophysiology Journal. The prevalent ‘core phonological deficit’ model of dyslexia proposes that the reading and spelling difficulties characterizing affected children stem from prior developmental difficulties in processing...

Why reading nursery rhymes and singing to babies may help them to learn language

17 January 2024

Why reading nursery rhymes and singing to babies may help them to learn language Researchers find that babies don’t begin to process phonetic information reliably until seven months old which they say is too late to form the foundation of language. Researchers say parents should speak to their babies using sing-song speech...

A new publication from the BabyRhythm project funded by the European Research Council (ERC).

23 January 2024

A new publication from the BabyRhythm project funded by the European Research Council (ERC) Decoding speech information from EEG data with 4-, 7- and 11-month-old infants: Using convolutional neural network, mutual information-based and backward linear models Here, we applied three computational methods to decode speech...

A new publication from the project funded by the Fondation Botnar.

17 January 2024

A new publication from the project funded by the Fondation Botnar was published in the Frontiers in Human Neuroscience Journal, in September 2023. Neural responses to natural and enhanced speech edges in children with and without dyslexia Dyslexia is a developmental language disorder affecting reading and spelling. While...

First publication from the BabyRhythm project!

14 June 2021

The first paper from the BabyRhythm project was published this week in the journal Brain and Language. Using EEG data from 8-week-old infants, we showed that a machine learning approach can be used to accurately classify whether an infant was hearing rhythmic speech or a rhythmic non-speech sound. First author Samuel...

Professor Goswami is elected Fellow of the Royal Society

6 May 2021

Professor Goswami is elected Fellow of the Royal Society Congratulations to Professor Goswami who has been elected Fellow of the Royal Society for her fundamental contributions to understanding how individual differences in children's 'phonological awareness' (of word sound structure) underpin reading development and...

First publication from the Botnar Foundation project!

26 October 2021

The first publication from the project funded by the Fondation Botnar was published in the Journal of the Acoustical Society of America on 19 th October 2021. Children’s brains need time to develop crucial listening skills It is well documented that children are generally worse at being able to hear speech clearly when...

Professor Goswami becomes member of the German National Academy of Sciences Leopoldina.

3 February 2021

We are pleased to announce that Professor Usha Goswami has been elected for membership of the German National Academy of Sciences Leopoldina . The Leopoldina was founded in 1652 in Schweinfurt/Germany and is thus the oldest continuously existing academy of natural sciences and medicine in the world. The Academy selects its...

Professor Goswami receives the CBE honour in the Queen’s New Year Honours

4 January 2021

We are delighted to share a picture of Professor Usha Goswami receiving her CBE (Commander of the Order of the British Empire) at Windsor Castle. The CBE was awarded by Princess Anne during an afternoon ceremony. Professor Goswami received her CBE in the Queen's New Years Honours list in January 2021, but the investiture...

What is neuroscience?

17 November 2020

Professor Usha Goswami FBA explains what it is that neuroscientists study and how their research impacts our understanding of what it is to be human. https://www.thebritishacademy.ac.uk/blog/what-is-neuroscience/

Professor Usha Goswami Receives the Yidan Prize

1 June 2020

We are pleased to announce that Professor Usha Goswami was awarded the Yidan Prize for Education Research by the Yidan Prize Foundation in September 2019, for her work in educational neuroscience, language and literacy. The other recipient of the prize in 2019 was Sir Fazle Hasan, who has developed play-based early...

Professor Usha Goswami Receives the John Nisbet Fellowship

9 June 2020

We are pleased to announce that Professor Usha Goswami has been awarded the 2020 John Nisbet Fellowship by the British Educational Research Association (BERA). This is a lifetime achievement award given to those who are deemed to exemplify BERA’s commitment to encouraging educational research and its application for the...

Maths Anxiety Booklet Published

9 June 2020

A booklet on mathematical anxiety written by Dr. Dénes Szűcs in collaboration with Dr. Irene Mammarella from the University of Padova, Italy, has been published by the International Bureau of Education (IBE). Intended as a practical resource for educators and parents, Math Anxiety discusses the ways that mathematical...

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Our study funded by the Fondation Botnar has recently published new findings.

A new publication has been released from the project funded by the Yidan Foundation

New research findings have been published from the BabyRhythm project, funded by the European Research Council (ERC).

Our study funded by the Fondation Botnar project has recently published findings in the Clinical Neurophysiology Journal.

Why reading nursery rhymes and singing to babies may help them to learn language

A new publication from the BabyRhythm project funded by the European Research Council (ERC).

A new publication from the project funded by the Fondation Botnar.

First publication from the BabyRhythm project!

Professor Goswami is elected Fellow of the Royal Society

First publication from the Botnar Foundation project!

Professor Goswami becomes member of the German National Academy of Sciences Leopoldina.

Professor Goswami receives the CBE honour in the Queen’s New Year Honours

What is neuroscience?

Professor Usha Goswami Receives the Yidan Prize

Professor Usha Goswami Receives the John Nisbet Fellowship

Maths Anxiety Booklet Published

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