Video: Nina Kraus “Of Sound Mind: How Our Brain Constructs a Meaningful Sonic World”

Streamed live on Oct 24, 2021 Hearing a cry or a word or a bird call or a chord brings forth different, specific reactions in each of our brains. How we engage with those sounds, tuning them up or down, and in or out, is a lifelong process that changes the brain along...

Video: Music is the Jackpot: Nina Kraus “Of Sound Mind: How Our Brain Constructs a Meaningful Sonic World”

Jan 5, 2022 This video contains excerpts from an ARTSpeaks event held on November 8, 2021. Nina Kraus, Professor of Neurobiology, Otolaryngology; Hugh Knowles Chair; Fellow, Hugh Knowles Center at Northwestern University, is a scientist, inventor, and amateur musician...

Art and music therapy seem to help with brain disorders. Scientists want to know why

When Michael Schneider’s anxiety and PTSD flare up, he reaches for the ukulele he keeps next to his computer. “I can’t actually play a song,” says Schneider, who suffered two serious brain injuries during nearly 22 years in the Marines....

Musical training gives edge in auditory processing

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. Ratings Current Average Ratings Overall Grade Avg: 0/5 Interesting Avg: 0/5 Practical...

Editors’ introduction to Hearing Research special issue: Music, a window into the hearing brain

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...