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,...
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...
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