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SUMMARY:Speech Rhythm and Temporal Structure: A Temporal Sampling Perspect
 ive on Phonology and Dyslexia - Professor Usha Goswami\, Professor of Cogn
 itive Developmental Neuroscience\,  Director\, Centre for Neuroscience in 
 Education\, University of Cambridge
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CONTACT:Louise White
DESCRIPTION:Over 30 years ago\, Lynette Bradley and Peter Bryant proposed 
 an important link between children’s rhyming skills\, their “auditory 
 organisation”\, and how well they learned to read. Recent insights from 
 auditory neuroscience provide a new perspective on this developmental theo
 ry. I develop an oscillatory “temporal sampling” neural framework for 
 linking auditory processing to phonological development. I show that sensi
 tivity to metrical (rhythmic) structure is key to developing good phonolog
 ical skills\, and that children with dyslexia are insensitive to metrical 
 rhythm. Metrical structure underpins nursery rhymes as well as music. Sens
 itivity to metrical structure is related to basic auditory processing of t
 he amplitude modulation structure of speech via neuronal oscillatory entra
 inment. \n\nBiography\n\nUsha Goswami FBA is Professor of Cognitive Develo
 pmental Neuroscience at the University of Cambridge and a Fellow of St Joh
 n’s College\, Cambridge. She is also Director of the Centre for Neurosci
 ence in Education. Her current research examines relations between phonolo
 gy and reading\, with special reference to the neural oscillatory underpin
 nings of rhyme and rhythm. A major focus of her research is the brain basi
 s of dyslexia and speech and language difficulties. She has received a num
 ber of career awards\, including the British Psychology Society’s Spearm
 an Medal (1992) and President’s Award (2011)\; the Aspen Brain Forum Sen
 ior Investigator Prize in Neuroeducation\, New York Academy of Sciences\; 
 the Norman Geschwind-Rodin Prize for Dyslexia research\, Sweden\; and Rese
 arch Fellowships from the National Academy of Education (USA)\, the Leverh
 ulme Trust\, and the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation (Germany). 
LOCATION:Ground Floor Lecture Theatre\, Department of Psychology
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