by David Gibson | Feb 15, 2022 | Articles and Videos, Hearing, Language, Learning, Music Training, Sound and Children
Auditory training works. Behavioral and neurophysiological studies have demonstrated training-related benefits in a variety of populations, including children with hearing loss or auditory-based learning impairments, young adults learning non-native lexical contrasts,...
by David Gibson | Feb 13, 2022 | Articles and Videos, Cognitive Function, Hearing, Language, Learning, Music Therapy, Music Training, Sound and Children
Historically, research assessing the impact of musical training has focused on those children whose families are able to pay for private lessons. In this article however, Nina Kraus outlines the findings of one of her recent projects; assessing the impact of community...
by David Gibson | Feb 13, 2022 | Aging, Articles and Videos, Cognitive Function, Emotion, Hearing, Music Therapy, Music Training
Successful speech understanding in noisy environments hinges on factors that extend beyond the ear, including cognitive abilities and the integrity of sound processing in the brain. Musical training is a robust approach to strengthen these factors—and converging...
by David Gibson | Feb 12, 2022 | Articles and Videos, Cognitive Function, Hearing, Language, Music Training
People are often motivated to visit an audiologist when they begin to notice a difficulty to hear in noisy environments. Hearing-in-noise issues can arise due to many reasons, and individuals with hearing loss have more difficulty understanding speech in noisy...
by David Gibson | Feb 11, 2022 | Articles and Videos, Cognitive Function, Hearing, Language, Music Training, Sound and Children
In the Kraus lab at Northwestern University, the skills that interest us most are reading and speech-in-noise (SIN) perception. Significantly, musicians excel at these very activities. Our research has led us to measuring deep-brain electroencephalograph (EEG) in...
by David Gibson | Feb 8, 2022 | Articles and Videos, Cognitive Function, Hearing, Language, Music Therapy, Music Training, Sound and Children
Musical training has a pervasive positive effect. This is manifested in a number of interesting ways. First, unsurprisingly perhaps, musicians excel at pitch and rhythm perception and discrimination. Likewise, instrumental musicians tend to have superior fine-motor...
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