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  • 2026 - Research.com Psychology in United Kingdom Leader Award
  • 1992 - Spearman Medal, British Psychological Society

Overview

Usha Goswami is affiliated with the University of Cambridge in the United Kingdom, specializing in research areas that intersect psychology and neuroscience. Their work primarily focuses on cognitive neuroscience and developmental and educational psychology, with additional contributions to experimental and cognitive psychology, statistics and probability, and education.

The scientist's main research topics include reading and literacy development, neuroscience and music perception, language development and disorders, EEG and brain-computer interfaces, phonetics and phonology research, neural dynamics and brain function, as well as hearing loss and rehabilitation.

Recent publications by Usha Goswami and collaborators demonstrate an emphasis on auditory neuroscience and speech processing across developmental stages. Selected papers include:

  • "Delta- and theta-band cortical tracking and phase-amplitude coupling to sung speech by infants" (2021, NeuroImage)
  • "Language acquisition and speech rhythm patterns: an auditory neuroscience perspective" (2022, Royal Society Open Science)
  • "Neural sampling of the speech signal at different timescales by children with dyslexia" (2022, NeuroImage)
  • "Atypical delta-band phase consistency and atypical preferred phase in children with dyslexia during neural entrainment to rhythmic audio-visual speech" (2022, NeuroImage Clinical)
  • "Emergence of the cortical encoding of phonetic features in the first year of life" (2023, Nature Communications)

Frequent coauthors collaborating with Goswami include Sheila Flanagan, Angela Wilson, Kanad Mandke, Annabel Macfarlane, and Fiona Gabrielczyk. These collaborations have contributed to advancing research particularly in language development and cognitive neuroscience.

Publication venues where Goswami has frequently contributed include bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory), Brain and Language, Journal of Speech Language and Hearing Research, Developmental Science, and NeuroImage. Additionally, Goswami has an authored book titled The Cambridge Handbook of Dyslexia and Dyscalculia, published by Cambridge University Press in 2022.

Usha Goswami received the Spearman Medal from the British Psychological Society in 1992.

Best Publications

  • Reading acquisition, developmental dyslexia, and skilled reading across languages: a psycholinguistic grain size theory.

    Johannes C. Ziegler;Usha Goswami

  • Phonological Skills And Learning To Read

    Usha Goswami

  • A temporal sampling framework for developmental dyslexia.

    Usha Goswami

  • Analogical reasoning in children

    Usha Goswami

  • The mental wealth of nations

    John Beddington;Cary L. Cooper;John Field;Usha Goswami

  • Amplitude envelope onsets and developmental dyslexia: A new hypothesis.

    Usha Goswami;Jennifer Thomson;Ulla Richardson;Rhona Stainthorp

  • Neuroscience and education: from research to practice?

    Usha Goswami

  • The influence of orthographic consistency on reading development: word recognition in English and German children

    Heinz Wimmer;Usha Goswami

  • Phonological Awareness Deficits in Developmental Dyslexia and the Phonological Representations Hypothesis.

    Denise Swan;Usha Goswami

  • Becoming literate in different languages: similar problems, different solutions.

    Johannes C. Ziegler;Usha Goswami

  • Children's orthographic representations and linguistic transparency: Nonsense word reading in English, French, and Spanish

    Usha Goswami;Jean Emile Gombert;Lucia Fraca de Barrera

  • Sensory theories of developmental dyslexia: three challenges for research.

    Usha Goswami

  • Neuroscience and education.

    Usha Goswami

  • Music, rhythm, rise time perception and developmental dyslexia: perception of musical meter predicts reading and phonology.

    Martina Huss;John P. Verney;Tim Fosker;Natasha Mead

  • Children's use of analogy in learning to read: A developmental study

    Usha Goswami

  • Phonological representations, reading development and dyslexia: towards a cross‐linguistic theoretical framework

    Usha Goswami

  • Rhythmic motor entrainment in children with speech and language impairments: tapping to the beat.

    Kathleen H. Corriveau;Usha Goswami

  • Blackwell handbook of childhood cognitive development

    Usha Goswami

  • Rhythmic processing in children with developmental dyslexia: Auditory and motor rhythms link to reading and spelling

    Jennifer M. Thomson;Usha Goswami

  • Phonology, reading development, and dyslexia: A cross-linguistic perspective

    Usha Goswami

Frequent Co-Authors

Peter Bryant
Peter Bryant University of Oxford
Denis K Burnham
Denis K Burnham Western Sydney University
Johannes C. Ziegler
Johannes C. Ziegler Aix-Marseille University
Kathleen H. Corriveau
Kathleen H. Corriveau Boston University
Sophie K. Scott
Sophie K. Scott University College London
Michael Brammer
Michael Brammer King's College London
Ann L. Brown
Ann L. Brown University of California, Berkeley
Wolfgang Schneider
Wolfgang Schneider University of Würzburg
Felicia A. Huppert
Felicia A. Huppert University of Sydney
Barbara J. Sahakian
Barbara J. Sahakian University of Cambridge

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