Selected Publications & Presentations

Gosavi, R. S., Toomarian, E. Y., & Eagen, J (2025), Accelerating outcomes for teachers & researchers, National Association of Independent Schools Conference, Nashville, TN.

Gosavi, R. S., (2024). There's a scientist in my school!, UNESCO Global Alliance on Science of Learning for Education, Paris, France.

Gosavi, R. S., & Toomarian, E. Y. (2024). Impacts of involving young learners in mind, brain, and education research. Mind, Brain, and Education, 18(2), 159-169.

Gosavi, R. S., Toomarian, E. Y, Moron, S., Roy, E., Hasak L.R., McCandliss, B.D. (2023). Capturing the Causal Impact of the Words Teachers Teach: Learning & Retention Dynamics in a Naturalistic Classroom Training Study, Flux Developmental Cognitive Neuroscience Meeting, Santa Rosa, CA.

Toomarian, E. Y., Gosavi, R. S., Hasak, L. R., Bunderson, M., & McCandliss, B. D. (2024). Emerging Insights From a Research‐Practice Partnership Approach to Educational Neuroscience. Mind, Brain, and Education, 18(4), 437-448.

Wang, F., Kaneshiro, B., Toomarian, E. Y., Gosavi, R. S., Hasak, L. R., Moron, S., Nguyen, Q.T., Norcia, A.M., & McCandliss, B. D. (2024). Progress in elementary school reading linked to growth of cortical responses to familiar letter combinations within visual word forms.

Gosavi, R. S., & Vincent, V. (2021). Empathy through education: learning is a social and emotional experience. The Hindu.

Cheng, B. H., Gosavi, R.S., Joshi, A., Williams, R., Christensen, S. (2021). Black Educators’ Experiences of Race and Racism. Teacher Truth Project.

Gosavi, R. S., Hubbard, E.M. (2020). Book Chapter: How Synesthesia may lead to Enhanced Memory. Multisensory Perception: From Laboratory to Clinic. K. Sathian & V.S. Ramachandran (Eds.). Academic Press/Elsevier.

Gosavi, R. S., & Hubbard, E.M. (2019). A colorful advantage in iconic memory. Cognition, 187, 32-37.

Gosavi R.S., Meyering E, Postle B, Hubbard E.M. (2016). Decoding Grapheme-Color Synesthesia using Multivariate Pattern Analysis. Cognitive Neuroscience Society Meeting, New York, NY.

Gosavi, R., Chang, V. W., McGivern, R., & Pineda, J. A. (2015). Sex Differences during Visual Tracking and Emotion Recognition. Journal of Education, Society and Behavioural Science, 8(2), 79–93. https://doi.org/10.9734/BJESBS/2015/16900

Awards & Honors

National Science Foundation (NSF) Graduate Research Fellowship Program, Honorable Mention

Graduate Student Award, Cognitive Neuroscience Society       

Graduate Travel Fellowship Awards, UW-Madison, Dept. Educational Psych or an Academic Society                

Honors with Distinction in Cognitive Science- Neuroscience, University of California, San Diego

Undergraduate Research Grant, University of California, San Diego

UW-Madison School of Business “Entrepreneurial Bootcamp” Fellow