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...
by David Gibson | Jan 27, 2022 | Articles and Videos, Cognitive Function, Frequencies, Medical Sound, Music Therapy, Music Training, Sound Healing Instruments, Sound Healing Music, Sound Healing Science, Technology, Vibroacoustics
Is “sound healing” based on sound science, or is it just a bunch of noise? Lisa Marie Potter uses her brain to find out. Read the full article here: Ratings Current Average Ratings Overall Grade Avg: 0/5 Interesting Avg: 0/5 Practical Application Avg: 0/5...
by David Gibson | Jan 23, 2022 | Articles and Videos, Cognitive Function, Hearing, Language, Music Therapy, Music Training, Sound and Children
Children who are better able to synchronize to an acoustic beat have more faithful neural encoding of speech responses (higher stimulus-to-response correlations) in quiet and noise, and have higher phonological awareness scores—an early indicator of reading ability....
by David Gibson | Jan 22, 2022 | Articles and Videos, Cognitive Function, Emotion, Hearing, Music Therapy, Music Training
Sound is air in motion. We all know that sound moves our hair cells, but sound moves us in other ways too. Hearing is coupled with feeling: In the brain, the auditory and emotional systems are interconnected by feedforward and feedback pathways, and reward-related...
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