Usha Goswami

27.4k total citations · 3 hit papers
228 papers, 18.0k citations indexed

About

Usha Goswami is a scholar working on Developmental and Educational Psychology, Cognitive Neuroscience and Statistics and Probability. According to data from OpenAlex, Usha Goswami has authored 228 papers receiving a total of 18.0k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 173 papers in Developmental and Educational Psychology, 119 papers in Cognitive Neuroscience and 57 papers in Statistics and Probability. Recurrent topics in Usha Goswami's work include Reading and Literacy Development (143 papers), Language Development and Disorders (77 papers) and Neuroscience and Music Perception (65 papers). Usha Goswami is often cited by papers focused on Reading and Literacy Development (143 papers), Language Development and Disorders (77 papers) and Neuroscience and Music Perception (65 papers). Usha Goswami collaborates with scholars based in United Kingdom, France and United States. Usha Goswami's co-authors include Johannes C. Ziegler, Jenny Thomson, Victoria Leong, Natasha Mead, Ulla Richardson, Kathleen H. Corriveau, Martina Huss, Dénes Szűcs, Tim Fosker and Heinz Wimmer and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences and Nature Communications.

In The Last Decade

Usha Goswami

221 papers receiving 16.7k citations

Hit Papers

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Hit papers significantly outperform the citation benchmark for their cohort. A paper qualifies if it has ≥500 total citations, achieves ≥1.5× the top-1% citation threshold for papers in the same subfield and year (this is the minimum needed to enter the top 1%, not the average within it), or reaches the top citation threshold in at least one of its specific research topics.

Reading Acquisition, Developmental Dyslexia, and Skilled Reading Across Languages: A Psycholinguistic Grain Size Theory.

2005 2.0k citations Usha Goswami et al. profile →
Phonological skills and learning to read

1991 1.1k citations Usha Goswami profile →
A temporal sampling framework for developmental dyslexia

2010 627 citations Usha Goswami profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

Peers by citation overlap · career bar shows stage (early→late) cites · hero ref

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Usha Goswami United Kingdom	72	14.3k	9.5k	4.7k	4.2k	2.5k	228	18.0k
Charles Hulme United Kingdom	85	18.6k 1.3×	8.9k 0.9×	5.8k 1.2×	6.5k 1.5×	3.2k 1.3×	248	23.5k
Hua Shu China	57	8.6k 0.6×	5.3k 0.6×	2.8k 0.6×	2.7k 0.6×	1.7k 0.7×	265	10.8k
Margaret J. Snowling United Kingdom	80	21.4k 1.5×	7.9k 0.8×	7.3k 1.6×	7.6k 1.8×	1.3k 0.5×	236	23.9k
Catherine McBride‐Chang Hong Kong	67	8.9k 0.6×	3.3k 0.3×	3.5k 0.7×	4.6k 1.1×	1.1k 0.4×	150	12.4k
Donald Shankweiler United States	55	9.7k 0.7×	8.0k 0.8×	2.9k 0.6×	2.2k 0.5×	4.5k 1.8×	128	15.2k
Charles A. Perfetti United States	75	16.8k 1.2×	9.2k 1.0×	3.6k 0.8×	5.0k 1.2×	3.5k 1.4×	273	20.7k
Heinz Wimmer Austria	52	12.9k 0.9×	7.1k 0.7×	3.1k 0.7×	3.6k 0.8×	1.6k 0.6×	102	15.6k
Linda S. Siegel Canada	61	11.1k 0.8×	3.6k 0.4×	5.0k 1.1×	4.6k 1.1×	1.1k 0.5×	247	14.5k
Susan E. Gathercole United Kingdom	80	18.3k 1.3×	12.6k 1.3×	4.5k 0.9×	3.3k 0.8×	6.9k 2.7×	196	26.7k
Brian Butterworth United Kingdom	52	5.0k 0.3×	4.3k 0.5×	5.6k 1.2×	3.3k 0.8×	1.7k 0.7×	128	9.5k

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Flanagan, Sheila, et al.. (2025). Binaural Temporal Fine Structure Sensitivity for Children With Developmental Dyslexia. Journal of Speech Language and Hearing Research. 68(5). 2569–2583.

Modi, Paul, et al.. (2024). Title: Clinical Outcomes of Lung Transplant Recipients with Myelodysplastic Syndrome and Short Telomere Syndrome. The Journal of Heart and Lung Transplantation. 43(4). S486–S487.

Simons, Benjamin D., Varghese Peter, Marina Kalashnikova, et al.. (2024). Atypical low-frequency cortical encoding of speech identifies children with developmental dyslexia. Frontiers in Human Neuroscience. 18. 1403677–1403677. 5 indexed citations

Rocha, Sinead, Adam Attaheri, Áine Ní Choisdealbha, et al.. (2024). Precursors to infant sensorimotor synchronization to speech and non‐speech rhythms: A longitudinal study. Developmental Science. 27(4). e13483–e13483. 2 indexed citations

Rocha, Sinead, Áine Ní Choisdealbha, Adam Attaheri, et al.. (2024). Language Acquisition in the Longitudinal Cambridge UK BabyRhythm Cohort. Collabra Psychology. 10(1). 2 indexed citations

Choisdealbha, Áine Ní, Adam Attaheri, Sinead Rocha, et al.. (2024). Cortical tracking of visual rhythmic speech by 5‐ and 8‐month‐old infants: Individual differences in phase angle relate to language outcomes up to 2 years. Developmental Science. 27(4). 3 indexed citations

Wilson, Angela, et al.. (2024). Atypical beta-band effects in children with dyslexia in response to rhythmic audio-visual speech. Clinical Neurophysiology. 160. 47–55. 3 indexed citations

Flanagan, Sheila, et al.. (2024). Amplitude rise time sensitivity in children with and without dyslexia: differential task effects and longitudinal relations to phonology and literacy. Frontiers in Psychology. 15. 1245589–1245589. 3 indexed citations

Liberto, Giovanni M. Di, Adam Attaheri, Richard B. Reilly, et al.. (2023). Emergence of the cortical encoding of phonetic features in the first year of life. Nature Communications. 14(1). 7789–7789. 16 indexed citations

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Wilson, Angela, et al.. (2023). Atypical speech production of multisyllabic words and phrases by children with developmental dyslexia. Developmental Science. 27(1). e13428–e13428. 2 indexed citations

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Lallier, Marie, et al.. (2022). Local Temporal Regularities in Child-Directed Speech in Spanish. Journal of Speech Language and Hearing Research. 65(10). 3776–3788. 6 indexed citations

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Flanagan, Sheila, et al.. (2022). Neural sampling of the speech signal at different timescales by children with dyslexia. NeuroImage. 253. 119077–119077. 17 indexed citations

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Peter, Varghese, Usha Goswami, Denis Burnham, & Marina Kalashnikova. (2022). Impaired neural entrainment to low frequency amplitude modulations in English-speaking children with dyslexia or dyslexia and DLD. Brain and Language. 236. 105217–105217. 4 indexed citations

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Attaheri, Adam, Áine Ní Choisdealbha, Sinead Rocha, et al.. (2021). Machine learning accurately classifies neural responses to rhythmic speech vs. non-speech from 8-week-old infant EEG. Brain and Language. 220. 104968–104968. 13 indexed citations

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Flanagan, Sheila, et al.. (2021). Development of binaural temporal fine structure sensitivity in children. The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America. 150(4). 2967–2976. 6 indexed citations

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Goswami, Usha. (2014). The Wiley-Blackwell Handbook of Childhood Cognitive Development. Wiley-Blackwell eBooks. 29 indexed citations

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Leong, Victoria, Richard E. Turner, Michael A. Stone, & Usha Goswami. (2011). Spoken Nursery Rhymes Have a Fractal Rhythmic Structure - Evidence from Patterns of Slow Amplitude Modulation (AM). Cognitive Science. 33(33). 1 indexed citations

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Thomson, Jenny, Ulla Richardson, & Usha Goswami. (2005). The role of similarity neighborhoods in children's short-term memory: comparing typically-developing children with children with dyslexia. Memory & Cognition. 33. 3 indexed citations

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Goswami, Usha. (2004). Neuroscience and education. British Journal of Educational Psychology. 74(1). 1–14. 238 indexed citations

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Goswami, Usha. (2003). How to beat dyslexia.. Psychologist. 9 indexed citations

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