Usha Goswami

Usha Goswami is a Fellow at the University of Cambridge, affiliated with the School of Biological Sciences. Her research focuses on cognitive development, reading, language, cognition, sensory processing, and neural processing. She investigates the relationships between phonology and reading, particularly in relation to rhyme and analogy in reading acquisition, as well as rhyme and rhythm processing in dyslexic and deaf children's reading. Her work employs techniques such as psychological testing, electrophysiology, psychoacoustic methods, computational modelling, and magnetoencephalography. Research themes include oscillatory processes atypical in the dyslexic brain from various mechanistic perspectives.

Usha Goswami is a Professor of Cognitive Developmental Neuroscience at the University of Cambridge, specializing in child psychology, reading, dyslexia, and neuroscience in education. Her research explores reading acquisition, developmental dyslexia, and skilled reading across languages, with a focus on psycholinguistic grain size theory and phonological skills. Goswami investigates how orthographic consistency, amplitude envelope onsets, and analogical reasoning influence reading development. Her work also examines the role of music, rhythm, and orthographic representations in literacy. She emphasizes the importance of neuroscience in education, bridging research to practical applications for improving reading instruction and understanding learning difficulties.