João Araújo joined the Centre for Neuroscience in Education in 2020 when he began doing his PhD, under the supervision of Professor Usha Goswami and Professor Ben Simons (Department of Mathematics and Theoretical Physics, University of Cambridge). His thesis combines the latest advances on the neurobiology of speech processing with modern computational modelling approaches to study differences in neural responses to speech in dyslexia / DLD. Through this research João aims to create a clinically-relevant classifier and a remediative intervention for these conditions based on a operant learning brain-computer-interface (BCI).
During his visits to the centre and as part of his research, João has worked upon both the Botnar and the Yidan projects.