Natasha Mead

Biographic Data

ID9494941
NAMENatasha Mead
GIVEN NAMESNatasha
FAMILY NAMEMead
SIGNATUREMEAD N
AFFILIATIONSUniversity of Cambridge
ORCID0000-0003-0737-8738
VERIFIEDYes
TOTAL WORKS5
TOTAL CITATIONS0
WORKS AS AUTHOR5
WORKS AS EDITOR0
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR2020
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2023
H-INDEX0

  • Neural phase angle from two months when tracking speech and non-speech rhythm linked to language performance from 12 to 24 months

    Open AccessÁine Ní Choisdealbha, Adam Attaheri et al.ARTICLEBrain and Language2023

    Atypical phase alignment of low-frequency neural oscillations to speech rhythm has been implicated in phonological deficits in developmental dyslexia. Atypical phase alignment to rhythm could thus also characterize infants at risk for later language difficulties. Here, we investigate phase-language mechanisms in a neurotypical infant sample. 122 two-, six- and nine-month-old infants were played speech and non-speech rhythms while EEG was recorded…

  • Neurocognitive Predictors of Response to Intervention With GraphoGame Rime

    Open AccessAngela Wilson, Henna Ahmed et al.ARTICLEFrontiers in Education2021

    This study explores the neurocognitive predictors of response to intervention with GraphoGame Rime (GG Rime), an adaptive software game designed to aid the learning of English phonics. A cohort of 398 children (aged 6–7 years) who had participated in a recent randomised controlled trial (RCT) of GG Rime in the United Kingdom were studied. Half were randomly assigned to play GG Rime and the other half were assigned to Business As Usual (BAU). A se…

  • Machine learning accurately classifies neural responses to rhythmic speech vs. non-speech from 8-week-old infant EEG

    Open AccessSamuel Gibbon, Adam Attaheri et al.ARTICLEBrain and Language2021

    Currently there are no reliable means of identifying infants at-risk for later language disorders. Infant neural responses to rhythmic stimuli may offer a solution, as neural tracking of rhythm is atypical in children with developmental language disorders. However, infant brain recordings are noisy. As a first step to developing accurate neural biomarkers, we investigate whether infant brain responses to rhythmic stimuli can be classified reliabl…

  • Auditory Sensory Processing and Phonological Development in High IQ and Exceptional Readers, Typically Developing Readers, and Children With Dyslexia

    Open AccessUpasana Goswami, Martina Huss et al.ARTICLEChild Development2021

    Phonological difficulties characterize children with developmental dyslexia across languages, but whether impaired auditory processing underlies these phonological difficulties is debated. Here the causal question is addressed by exploring whether individual differences in sensory processing predict the development of phonological awareness in 86 English-speaking lower- and middle-class children aged 8 years in 2005 who had dyslexia, or were age-…

  • An Evaluation of the Efficacy of GraphoGame Rime for Promoting English Phonics Knowledge in Poor Readers

    Open AccessHenna Ahmed, Angela Wilson et al.ARTICLEFrontiers in Education2020

    Here we report further analysis of data drawn from a Randomized Controlled Trial (RCT) run in the United Kingdom designed to evaluate the efficacy of an adaptive software game to aid the learning of English phonics, GraphoGame Rime. We evaluate the efficacy of GraphoGame Rime for the “top half” of players in the RCT, children aged 6 to 7 years who played above the group mean play progress point (95 children). We also analyse 3 sub-groupings of th…