Plotting some interesting surfaces     

Anindya Goswami  Imran Habib Biswas 《Resonance》2004,9(8):67-75

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INTERGENERATING ACTIVITIES AND AGING APPRECIATION OF ELEMENTARY SCHOOL CHILDREN     

Usha Chowdhary  Carol M. Schultz  Peter Hasselriis  Harry A. Kujath  Dolores Penn  Sharon Henson 《Educational gerontology》2013,39(6):541-564

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The Future of Educational Neuroscience     

Kurt W. Fischer  Usha Goswami  John Geake  the Task Force on the Future of Educational Neuroscience 《Mind, Brain, and Education》2010,4(2):68-80

The primary goal of the emerging field of educational neuroscience and the broader movement called Mind, Brain, and Education is to join biology with cognitive science, development, and education so that education can be grounded more solidly in research on learning and teaching. To avoid misdirection, the growing worldwide movement needs to avoid the many myths and distortions in popular conceptions of brain and genetics. It should instead focus on integrating research with practice to create useful evidence that illuminates the brain and genetic bases as well as social and cultural influences on learning and teaching. Scientists and educators need to collaborate to build a strong research foundation for analyzing the “black box” of biological and cognitive processes that underpin learning.  相似文献   

Amplitude envelope perception, phonology and prosodic sensitivity in children with developmental dyslexia     

Usha Goswami  Danielle Gerson  Luisa Astruc 《Reading and writing》2010,23(8):995-1019

Here we explore relations between auditory perception of amplitude envelope structure, prosodic sensitivity, and phonological awareness in a sample of 56 typically-developing children and children with developmental dyslexia. We examine whether rise time sensitivity is linked to prosodic sensitivity, and whether prosodic sensitivity is linked to phonological awareness. Prosodic sensitivity was measured by two reiterant speech tasks modelled on Kitzen (2001). The children with developmental dyslexia were significantly impaired in the reiterant speech tasks and in the phonological awareness tasks (onset and rime awareness). There were significant predictive relations between basic auditory processing of amplitude envelope structure (in particular, rise time), prosodic sensitivity, phonological awareness, reading, and spelling. The auditory processing difficulties that characterise children with developmental dyslexia appear to impair their sensitivity to phrase-level prosodic cues such as metrical structure as well as to phonology, but in this study phonological and prosodic sensitivity made largely independent contributions to reading.  相似文献   

Neuroscience, education and special education     

Usha Goswami 《British Journal of Special Education》2004,31(4):175-183

The discipline of neuroscience draws from the fields of neurology, psychology, physiology and biology, but is best understood in the wider world as 'brain science'. Of particular interest for education is the development of techniques for 'imaging' the brain as it performs different cognitive functions. Cognitive neuroimaging has already led to advances in understanding some of the basic functions involved in learning and raised implications for education and special education in particular. For example, neuroimaging has enabled scientists to study the very complex processes underpinning speech and language, thinking and reasoning, reading and mathematics. In this article, Professor Usha Goswami of the University of Cambridge Faculty of Education first reviews basic information on brain development. She provides a brief introduction to the tools used in neuroimaging then considers recent findings from neuroscience that seem relevant to educational questions. Professor Goswami uses this review to suggest particular ways in which neuroscience research could inform special education. In its closing sections, this article provides authoritative perspectives on some of the 'neuromyths' that seem to have taken root in the popular imagination and argues for increased dialogue, in the future, between the disciplines of neuroscience and education.  相似文献   

Phonological development and reading by analogy: what is analogy,and what is it not?     

Usha Goswami 《Journal of Research in Reading》1995,18(2):139-145

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Association of Inflammatory Cytokines,Lipid Peroxidation End Products and Nitric Oxide with the Clinical Severity and Fetal Outcome in Preeclampsia in Indian Women     

Devika Tayal  Binita Goswami  S. K. Patra  Reva Tripathi  Alka Khaneja 《Indian journal of clinical biochemistry : IJCB》2014,29(2):139-144

Preeclampsia is a multisystem disorder associated with maternal hypertension, placental abnormalities and adverse fetal outcomes. The various pathways involved in its etiology include endothelial dysfunction, inflammatory milieu, lipid peroxidation and immunological imbalance. The present study was conducted to evaluate the causative and predictive role of nitric oxide, lipid peroxidation end products (MDA) and inflammatory cytokines (IL-6, TNF-α) in clinical presentation, severity and fetal outcome in preeclampsia. The study population was divided into 3 groups- Non- pregnant females comprising the control population; G1 and G2 groups included normal pregnant and pregnant females with preeclampsia with 50 patients in each group. Nitric Oxide and MDA levels were found to be highest in the preeclamptic patients as compared to other two groups. ROC curve analysis shows the superiority of the inflammatory markers as determinants of severity of preeclampsia which suggests the emerging role of pro inflammatory markers in the various pathological changes in preeclampsia. TNF-α emerged as the best marker in multivariate analysis and thus, has the potential for being used as a marker for PIH. Our study illustrates the multifactorial etiology of preeclampsia involving oxidative stress, proinflammatory milieu and endothelial dysfunction.  相似文献   

Congenital Lead Poisoning: An Unusual Presentation     

Ipsita Mazumdar  K. Goswami 《Indian journal of clinical biochemistry : IJCB》2014,29(2):257-259

Lead poisoning presents a common acquired as well as congenital environmental threat to children’s health today. An unusual case of severe lead poisoning in breast fed male infant is presented here. The objective of the study is to describe a patient who developed clinical lead intoxication with an uncommon source of poisoning. A 6 months old male baby presented with gradual loss of weight, not feeding well and persistent vomiting. Laboratory investigation revealed that he was having anemia (Hb level 5.4 gm/dl), abnormal liver enzymes (including elevated transaminase activity) and high blood lead value (83 μg/dl). RBC morphology showed basophilic stippling with cabot ring, suggestive of a case of lead poisoning. A course of chelation treatment using calcium versenate (EDTACaNa2) was prescribed following which a radical solution for mobilization of lead from his systems was observed.  相似文献   

Correction to: Basic Auditory Processing Skills and Phonological Awareness in Low-IQ Readers and Typically Developing Controls     

Sarah Kuppen  Martina Huss  Tim Fosker  Natasha Fegan  Usha Goswami 《Scientific Studies of Reading》2013,17(6)

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Statistical Databases in India: Towards a Better Dissemination     

P.R. Goswami 《International Information and Library Review》2013,45(2-3):181-196

National statistical system is an integral part of knowledge base of government in all developing countries. In India, statistical agencies, which function under the aegis of government, produce a great variety of statistical information on different socio-economic variables. The purpose of this paper is to present an overview of socio-economic databases developed in India with special reference to initiatives taken by the data producing agencies for an user friendly dissemination programme.  相似文献