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  • Taiwanese visitors to CNE
    19th August 2009: Academics from leading Taiwanese universities (led by Dr Nai-Shing Yen) were sponsored by the National Science Council of Taiwan to tour leading neuroscience in education centres around Europe. Their visit began in Cambridge at the Centre for Neuroscience in Education where presentations were given by Professor Goswami and other researchers from the CNE. The visitors gave reciprocal talks on reading research interventions in Taiwan and possible future collaborations were discussed.

  • Business Weekly
    12th August 2009: Published an article on the recently awarded MRC grant to Dr Denes Szucs (Principal Investigator), Professor Usha Goswami and Dr Tim Rowland of the Faculty of Education, and Dr Rhodri Cusack at the MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, Cambridge. The research will investigate developmental dyscalculia using brain imaging techniques.
    http://www.businessweekly.co.uk/2009081235344/academia-and-research/million-pound-boost-for-cambridge-neuroscience.html
  • Oundle School
     3rd June 2009: Dr Tim Fosker and Sonia White (PhD student) visited Oundle School, Peterborough to give talks on The Impact of Cognitive Neuroscience to Education, Role of Rhythm in Reading Development, and the Case of Number and Space: cognitive and classroom measures to members of staff and teachers from neighbouring schools.
  • Pædagogisk Psykologisk Rådgivning visit to CNE
     28th April 2009: A group of psychologists and other specialist team members from the PPR Centre based in Frederiksberg, Denmark visited the CNE on 28th April for a tour of the EEG lab and to hear a series of presentations given by staff and students on topics ranging from rhythm and reading, phonics, the measurement of brain activity during problem-solving tasks in children, and number development skills in early school years.
  • BBC2 Horizon
    17th March 2009: "Who do you want your children to be?" - David Baddiel investigates the latest scientific research in education. On a visit to the Centre for Neuroscience in Education, University of Cambridge, he meets its Director, Professor Usha Goswami to discuss her brain imaging research into reading acquisition and phonological awareness, and how such information can be used to help with a child's progress in reading.
  • Cambridge Science Festival
     14th March 2009, "Neuroscience & Education: Looking at Learning Difficulties" - a public talk in which Usha Goswami explains how EEG can help us to understand the sensory processing differences that can give rise to learning difficulties like dyslexia. The CNE is open for the Science on Saturday event offering hands-on activities for children, posters, games, quizzes, demonstrations of experimental computer-based tasks and tours of the EEG lab.
    11th March 2009, "Making the Most of Our Minds" - top scientists Barbara Sahakian, Usha Goswami, Felicity Huppert and Sandy Thomas in a discussion on improving mental capital and wellbeing. Chaired by Tim Radford of the Guardian.
  • BBC4
     9th February 2009, "Why reading matters" - Science writer Rita Carter interviews Usha Goswami during her investigative programme about modern neuroscience and what this reveals about reading.
  • BBC Radio 4
     22nd October 2008, Today Programme - interview with Usha Goswami about her contribution on learning difficulties to the Government's Foresight Programme on mental health and wellbeing.
  • BBC1
     4th October 2008 - News item: 1pm and 6pm - current reading research in the EEG lab at the Centre for Neuroscience in Education.
  • Cheltenham Science Festival
    8th June 2008, Usha Goswami explores what we know about the causes of dyslexia and how this knowledge can be used to make future diagnosis.
  • BBC Radio 4
    11th March 2008, "Am I Normal - Dyslexia" - Vivienne Parry speaks to geneticists, neurologists and psychologists to discover how infant children showing possible signs of dyslexia are screened. In her interview with Usha Goswami she discusses the ways in which 'normal' and at risk young children might differ and how the research outcomes can be effectively used.
  • Channel 4
     22nd October 2007, Dispatches, "Why our children can't read"
  • Newsweek
     22nd October 2007, "The Case for Chutes and Ladders". Neuroscience shows kids build concepts of numbers one by one, through a mental number line. The article referred extensively to a paper by Dr Denes Szucs and Dr Usha Goswami in Mind, Brain and Education.
  • Research Day, St John's College, Cambridge
     15th March 2007, MRC "Rhythm and Reading Project" - Members of the MRC Project Team gave presentations to an invited audience of headteachers, teachers and support staff, parents of participant children and the children themselves. Professor Usha Goswami provides a background to and overview of the project while Dr Martina Huss and Dr Tim Fosker explain how the different tasks are developed and what outcomes might be anticipated.
  • Gothenburg University, Sweden Visit
    2005 - A team from Sweden visit the CEN and are hosted by Dr Louise Miller Guron. The team are interested in how to incorporate neuroscience into education in Sweden.