Professor Usha Goswami FBA

Children's cognitive development, particularly the development of language and literacy; cross-language studies of reading and dyslexia; reading development in deaf children and language-impaired children; educational neuroscience of reading and dyslexia
Fellow type
UK Fellow
Year elected
2013
Subjects
Education, Psychology

Current post

Department of Psychology, University of Cambridge; Professor of Cognitive Developmental Neuroscience

Centre for Neuroscience in Education Director

St John's College, Cambridge Fellow

What is neuroscience?

12 Nov 2020 Professor Usha Goswami FBA

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.

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Professor Susan Michie FBA

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