by David Gibson | Mar 12, 2022 | Articles and Videos, Hearing, Language, Learning, Sound and Children
Early childhood is about listening. However, our acoustic environments often compromise sound-to-meaning mapping: children are bombarded by a relentless din. While noise presents a challenge for all of us, children face special difficulty because their language...
by David Gibson | Mar 12, 2022 | Articles and Videos, Hearing, Language, Learning, Sound and Children
Children raised in homes with lower-income and less-educated parents are at an auditory disadvantage compared with children who come from more privileged circumstances, affecting the development of literacy skills. Low_Socioeconomic_Status_Linked_to_Impaired.5...
by David Gibson | Feb 20, 2022 | Articles and Videos, Cognitive Function, Hearing, Language, Learning, Music Therapy, Music Training, Physiology, Chakras and Auras , Sound and Children
A musician and a researcher, Dr. Nina Kraus describes her work investigating the effect of musical training on auditory processing and its implications for literacy in children. Kraus_HJ2011 Ratings Current Average Ratings Overall Grade Avg: 0/5 Interesting Avg: 0/5...
by David Gibson | Feb 19, 2022 | Articles and Videos, Cognitive Function, Hearing, Language, Learning, 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...
by David Gibson | Feb 19, 2022 | Aging, Articles and Videos, Hearing, Language, Music Training
Nina Kraus, PhD, is Professor of Neurobiology & Physiology, Otolaryngology, Hugh Knowles Chair, and the Director of the Auditory Neurosciences Laboratory at the Department of Communication Sciences and Disorders, Northwestern University. Dr Kraus’s research...
by David Gibson | Feb 17, 2022 | Articles and Videos, Cognitive Function, Emotion, Hearing, Language, Learning, Music Therapy, Music Training
There has been a surge of music-themed research in the field of auditory neuroscience in the past decade. A wealth of data have confirmed that musically trained individuals have structural, functional, and developmental differences in their brains relative to...
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