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...
by David Gibson | Feb 15, 2022 | Aging, Articles and Videos, Cognitive Function, Hearing, Language, Music Therapy, Music Training, Sound and Children
Intriguing research continues to focus on music, the brain, and music’s potential in honing auditory acuity, including speech-in-noise performance and the enhancement of listening abilities. This article reviews many of these exciting findings and looks at clinical...
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,...
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