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CNE BabyRhythm research informed a groundbreaking project in India

19 May 2025

The CNE BabyRhythm research has informed a groundbreaking project in India launched by a range of charities (Billion Readers, Pratham Education Foundation, and EkStep Foundation) working within the Bachpan Manao (Celebrate Childhood) initiative to document infant lullabies (First Songs) in all the languages of India. The...

Professor Usha Goswami has been elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences (AAAS)

19 May 2025

Professor Usha Goswami has been elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences (AAAS) in recognition of the global significance of her research. Founded in 1780, the AAAS honours excellence and convenes leaders from every field of human endeavour to examine new ideas, address issues of importance to the nation and...

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...

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...

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 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 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...