Podcast appearances and mentions of Nina Kraus

What can people and organisations learn from science and music? Why should we care? Are there universal mechanisms that are valid all over the world to all human species? Or is everything an individual experience?  Today, we talk with Hauke Egermann, Professor of Systematical Musicology at the University of Cologne. We speak about universal mechanisms that are valid all over the world; we learn from research with an isolated culture in Congo, the Pygmies from Mebenzélé, that refuse to practise negative music and have different songs to regulate their emotions. Songs against fear, anger, or, among others, music to protect hunters in the rainforest. How do they respond to music they have never heard or connected with? What does it evoke, and how does this relate to Canadian Indigenous people and the listening patterns in the Western world?  Hauke also shares the Music Date concert with us, where the audience's emotional reaction is tracked in the first tutti part of a concert to then separate and assign them to eight different mini-concerts around one emotion based on their responses.   Show notes Connect with Hauke: https://musikwissenschaft.phil-fak.uni-koeln.de/en/mitarbeiter-innen/professoren-innen/hauke-egermann  Mentioned paper about universal emotion-related psychophysiological responses: https://www.frontiersin.org/journals/psychology/articles/10.3389/fpsyg.2014.01341/full Google scholar profile: https://scholar.google.com/citations?hl=de&user=aSSMPDoAAAAJ&view_op=list_works&sortby=pubdate    Related podcasts:  A love letter to sound with Nina Kraus: https://musicthinking.com/a-love-letter-to-sound-with-nina-kraus/ Standing still with Alexander Refsum Jensenius: https://musicthinking.com/standing-still-with-alexander-refsum-jensenius/

Send us a textDiscover the critical difference between hearing and listening with Dr. Nina Kraus, an acclaimed expert from Northwestern University. Explore her interdisciplinary journey into the biological bases of language and the fascinating role of bird song in auditory research. Dr. Kraus also shares insights from her book, "Of Sound Mind," which celebrates the profound connection between sound and brain health, making complex concepts accessible to everyone.Uncover the latest advancements in hearing technology, including bone conduction devices that are transforming auditory experiences for musicians and everyday users alike. We discuss the advantages of bone conduction headsets and AirPods with ambient mic features, offering practical advice on choosing the right hearing aid or headset. Additionally, learn about the importance of hearing protection with innovative tools like the 3DME, and understand the broader health impacts of constant noise exposure in our modern world. This episode merges cutting-edge science, technology, and actionable tips to enhance your auditory experiences and protect your hearing health.While we know all hearing aids amplify sounds to help you hear them, Starkey Genesis AI uses cutting-edge technology designed to help you understand them, too.Click here to find a provider near you and test drive Starkey Genesis AI! Support the Show.Connect with the Hearing Matters Podcast TeamEmail: hearingmatterspodcast@gmail.com Instagram: @hearing_matters_podcast Twitter: @hearing_mattasFacebook: Hearing Matters Podcast

Guest: Nina Kraus, PhD - In this session, Garrett Oyama, MS, CCC-SLP, along with his guest, Dr. Kraus, delve into the intricate relationship between sound, the brain, and speech, providing invaluable insights for SLPs. Renowned scientist Dr. Nina Kraus will share groundbreaking research from her book, highlighting how the brain processes sound and the profound implications for speech therapy. Discover how auditory experiences shape neural pathways, the importance of musical training in enhancing auditory skills, and the role of sound in cognitive development.

We don't just hear; we engage with sounds. Our hearing is always on, and we can't close our ears the way we close our eyes, yet we can ignore unimportant sounds. Making sense of sound is one of the most challenging jobs we ask our brains to do. But how does this work? Today, we speak with Dr. Nina Kraus, scientist, inventor, book author, Professor of Neurobiology at Northwestern University, and Director of BrainVolts.  Nina's research reveals that our daily lives, filled with sound, play a significant role in shaping how our brain interprets the sounds we hear. This influence can be both positive, as seen in musicians and bilinguals, and negative, as in the case of concussion, hearing loss, and language disorders. Sound, therefore, leaves a profound imprint on our identities. Nina talks about the partnership of sound and the brain and how sound processing drives many of the brain's core functions.  To give you an idea of our conversation, there is a short, surprising sound example in the intro of the episode that will make you wonder!  Because we only hear what we know, we have to hear and listen a lot to better understand our world and ourselves. So, relax and join our conversation about exploring sound and listening! Or how Nina also talks about her work and book: It is a love letter to sound.   Show Notes Brainvolts website www.brainvolts.northwestern.edu  Book Of Sound Mind: https://brainvolts.northwestern.edu/of-sound-mind/  Show support Please choose one or more of the ‘three ways to support the show': Subscribe to the podcast. Leave us a review — even one sentence helps!  Tell your friends about the podcast and musicthinking.com Buy the book The Power of Music Thinking and the Jam Cards at a 20% discount using musicthinking20 at the check-out of the BIS Publishers website only.​​

Stanislas DehaeneCollège de France - Année 2023-2024Agir pour l'éducationColloque - Musique, cerveau et apprentissages scolaires : que dit la science ? - Respiration musicaleAlexandra ConunovaViolonisteCette journée, proposée dans le cadre de l'initiative « Agir pour l'Éducation » du Collège de France en association avec la Fondation Vareille, permettra de mieux comprendre en quoi l'apprentissage d'un instrument, dès le plus jeune âge, peut être un formidable outil au service de la réussite des élèves. Jouer de la musique améliore-t-il les capacités cognitives des enfants ? Quels liens établir entre musique et langage, musique et mathématiques ? Comment évaluer l'impact de la pratique instrumentale sur le développement et les compétences des enfants ?Les Professeurs Stanislas Dehaene et Emmanuel Bigand, chercheurs en psychologie cognitive et neurosciences ont élaboré le programme de ce colloque. Nina Kraus, Assal Habibi et Robert Zatorre, chercheurs de renommée internationale ont répondu positivement à leur invitation, et exposeront en personne leurs travaux les plus récents sur le sujet.La France sera notamment présente au travers de l'expérimentation Un violon dans mon école. Ce dispositif international d'enseignement du violon est en place pour 8 500 élèves de 4 à 8 ans, tous scolarisés en éducation prioritaire. Il fait l'objet de travaux de recherche qui seront présentés par des équipes de laboratoires de Sciences Po/CNRS, de NeuroSpin et de l'École d'économie de Paris.Une occasion unique de faire le point sur un sujet qui interpelle le monde de l'éducation !

Stanislas DehaeneCollège de France - Année 2023-2024Agir pour l'éducationColloque - Musique, cerveau et apprentissages scolaires : que dit la science ? - ClôtureCette journée, proposée dans le cadre de l'initiative « Agir pour l'Éducation » du Collège de France en association avec la Fondation Vareille, permettra de mieux comprendre en quoi l'apprentissage d'un instrument, dès le plus jeune âge, peut être un formidable outil au service de la réussite des élèves. Jouer de la musique améliore-t-il les capacités cognitives des enfants ? Quels liens établir entre musique et langage, musique et mathématiques ? Comment évaluer l'impact de la pratique instrumentale sur le développement et les compétences des enfants ?Les Professeurs Stanislas Dehaene et Emmanuel Bigand, chercheurs en psychologie cognitive et neurosciences ont élaboré le programme de ce colloque. Nina Kraus, Assal Habibi et Robert Zatorre, chercheurs de renommée internationale ont répondu positivement à leur invitation, et exposeront en personne leurs travaux les plus récents sur le sujet.La France sera notamment présente au travers de l'expérimentation Un violon dans mon école. Ce dispositif international d'enseignement du violon est en place pour 8 500 élèves de 4 à 8 ans, tous scolarisés en éducation prioritaire. Il fait l'objet de travaux de recherche qui seront présentés par des équipes de laboratoires de Sciences Po/CNRS, de NeuroSpin et de l'École d'économie de Paris.Une occasion unique de faire le point sur un sujet qui interpelle le monde de l'éducation !

Stanislas DehaeneCollège de France - Année 2023-2024Agir pour l'éducationColloque - Musique, cerveau et apprentissages scolaires : que dit la science ? - TémoignageAlexis Cardenas, violonisteCette journée, proposée dans le cadre de l'initiative « Agir pour l'Éducation » du Collège de France en association avec la Fondation Vareille, permettra de mieux comprendre en quoi l'apprentissage d'un instrument, dès le plus jeune âge, peut être un formidable outil au service de la réussite des élèves. Jouer de la musique améliore-t-il les capacités cognitives des enfants ? Quels liens établir entre musique et langage, musique et mathématiques ? Comment évaluer l'impact de la pratique instrumentale sur le développement et les compétences des enfants ?Les Professeurs Stanislas Dehaene et Emmanuel Bigand, chercheurs en psychologie cognitive et neurosciences ont élaboré le programme de ce colloque. Nina Kraus, Assal Habibi et Robert Zatorre, chercheurs de renommée internationale ont répondu positivement à leur invitation, et exposeront en personne leurs travaux les plus récents sur le sujet.La France sera notamment présente au travers de l'expérimentation Un violon dans mon école. Ce dispositif international d'enseignement du violon est en place pour 8 500 élèves de 4 à 8 ans, tous scolarisés en éducation prioritaire. Il fait l'objet de travaux de recherche qui seront présentés par des équipes de laboratoires de Sciences Po/CNRS, de NeuroSpin et de l'École d'économie de Paris.Une occasion unique de faire le point sur un sujet qui interpelle le monde de l'éducation !

Stanislas DehaeneCollège de France - Année 2023-2024Agir pour l'éducationColloque - Musique, cerveau et apprentissages scolaires : que dit la science ? - Neuro-imagerie de l'impact du programme éducatif Un Violon dans mon écoleTheo MorfoisseDoctorant en neurosciences, Laboratoire NeuroSpin, CEA (France)Cette journée, proposée dans le cadre de l'initiative « Agir pour l'Éducation » du Collège de France en association avec la Fondation Vareille, permettra de mieux comprendre en quoi l'apprentissage d'un instrument, dès le plus jeune âge, peut être un formidable outil au service de la réussite des élèves. Jouer de la musique améliore-t-il les capacités cognitives des enfants ? Quels liens établir entre musique et langage, musique et mathématiques ? Comment évaluer l'impact de la pratique instrumentale sur le développement et les compétences des enfants ?Les Professeurs Stanislas Dehaene et Emmanuel Bigand, chercheurs en psychologie cognitive et neurosciences ont élaboré le programme de ce colloque. Nina Kraus, Assal Habibi et Robert Zatorre, chercheurs de renommée internationale ont répondu positivement à leur invitation, et exposeront en personne leurs travaux les plus récents sur le sujet.La France sera notamment présente au travers de l'expérimentation Un violon dans mon école. Ce dispositif international d'enseignement du violon est en place pour 8 500 élèves de 4 à 8 ans, tous scolarisés en éducation prioritaire. Il fait l'objet de travaux de recherche qui seront présentés par des équipes de laboratoires de Sciences Po/CNRS, de NeuroSpin et de l'École d'économie de Paris.Une occasion unique de faire le point sur un sujet qui interpelle le monde de l'éducation !

Stanislas DehaeneCollège de France - Année 2023-2024Agir pour l'éducationColloque - Musique, cerveau et apprentissages scolaires : que dit la science ? - Du violon dans des écoles maternelles défavorisées, entre mobilité sociale et arbitraire culturel : quels effets pour quels publics ?Julie PereiraDoctorante en sociologie au Centre de Recherche sur les Inégalités Sociales (CRIS), Sciences Po CNRSCette journée, proposée dans le cadre de l'initiative « Agir pour l'Éducation » du Collège de France en association avec la Fondation Vareille, permettra de mieux comprendre en quoi l'apprentissage d'un instrument, dès le plus jeune âge, peut être un formidable outil au service de la réussite des élèves. Jouer de la musique améliore-t-il les capacités cognitives des enfants ? Quels liens établir entre musique et langage, musique et mathématiques ? Comment évaluer l'impact de la pratique instrumentale sur le développement et les compétences des enfants ?Les Professeurs Stanislas Dehaene et Emmanuel Bigand, chercheurs en psychologie cognitive et neurosciences ont élaboré le programme de ce colloque. Nina Kraus, Assal Habibi et Robert Zatorre, chercheurs de renommée internationale ont répondu positivement à leur invitation, et exposeront en personne leurs travaux les plus récents sur le sujet.La France sera notamment présente au travers de l'expérimentation Un violon dans mon école. Ce dispositif international d'enseignement du violon est en place pour 8 500 élèves de 4 à 8 ans, tous scolarisés en éducation prioritaire. Il fait l'objet de travaux de recherche qui seront présentés par des équipes de laboratoires de Sciences Po/CNRS, de NeuroSpin et de l'École d'économie de Paris.Une occasion unique de faire le point sur un sujet qui interpelle le monde de l'éducation !

Stanislas DehaeneCollège de France - Année 2023-2024Agir pour l'éducationColloque - Musique, cerveau et apprentissages scolaires : que dit la science ? - Présentation du dispositif Un violon dans mon écoleHélène VareillePrésidente de la Fondation VareilleBruno SuchautDirecteur scientifique de la Fondation VareilleCette journée, proposée dans le cadre de l'initiative « Agir pour l'Éducation » du Collège de France en association avec la Fondation Vareille, permettra de mieux comprendre en quoi l'apprentissage d'un instrument, dès le plus jeune âge, peut être un formidable outil au service de la réussite des élèves. Jouer de la musique améliore-t-il les capacités cognitives des enfants ? Quels liens établir entre musique et langage, musique et mathématiques ? Comment évaluer l'impact de la pratique instrumentale sur le développement et les compétences des enfants ?Les Professeurs Stanislas Dehaene et Emmanuel Bigand, chercheurs en psychologie cognitive et neurosciences ont élaboré le programme de ce colloque. Nina Kraus, Assal Habibi et Robert Zatorre, chercheurs de renommée internationale ont répondu positivement à leur invitation, et exposeront en personne leurs travaux les plus récents sur le sujet.La France sera notamment présente au travers de l'expérimentation Un violon dans mon école. Ce dispositif international d'enseignement du violon est en place pour 8 500 élèves de 4 à 8 ans, tous scolarisés en éducation prioritaire. Il fait l'objet de travaux de recherche qui seront présentés par des équipes de laboratoires de Sciences Po/CNRS, de NeuroSpin et de l'École d'économie de Paris.Une occasion unique de faire le point sur un sujet qui interpelle le monde de l'éducation !

Stanislas DehaeneCollège de France - Année 2023-2024Agir pour l'éducationColloque - Musique, cerveau et apprentissages scolaires : que dit la science ? - Table ronde : Comment passer de l'expérimentation à la politique éducative ?Modérateurs : Stanislas Dehaene et Emmanuel BigandParticipants :Lou Aisenberg, Cheffe de projet senior en charge du développement stratégique pour le programme IDEE Jean-Michel Blanquer, ancien Ministre de l'Education nationale, de la jeunesse et des sportsAxelle Charpentier,Cheffe de bureau de l'apui à l'évaluation des politiques et de soutien à la recherche, DEPP, ministère de l'Education nationale et des sportsMaria Majno, Vice - Présidente de Sistema Europe Bruno Suchaut, Directeur scientifique de la Fondation VareilleHélène Vareille, Présidente de la Fondation Vareille Olivier Wambecke, Directeur académique des services de l'Education nationale du Val d'OiseCette journée, proposée dans le cadre de l'initiative « Agir pour l'Éducation » du Collège de France en association avec la Fondation Vareille, permettra de mieux comprendre en quoi l'apprentissage d'un instrument, dès le plus jeune âge, peut être un formidable outil au service de la réussite des élèves. Jouer de la musique améliore-t-il les capacités cognitives des enfants ? Quels liens établir entre musique et langage, musique et mathématiques ? Comment évaluer l'impact de la pratique instrumentale sur le développement et les compétences des enfants ?Les Professeurs Stanislas Dehaene et Emmanuel Bigand, chercheurs en psychologie cognitive et neurosciences ont élaboré le programme de ce colloque. Nina Kraus, Assal Habibi et Robert Zatorre, chercheurs de renommée internationale ont répondu positivement à leur invitation, et exposeront en personne leurs travaux les plus récents sur le sujet.La France sera notamment présente au travers de l'expérimentation Un violon dans mon école. Ce dispositif international d'enseignement du violon est en place pour 8 500 élèves de 4 à 8 ans, tous scolarisés en éducation prioritaire. Il fait l'objet de travaux de recherche qui seront présentés par des équipes de laboratoires de Sciences Po/CNRS, de NeuroSpin et de l'École d'économie de Paris.Une occasion unique de faire le point sur un sujet qui interpelle le monde de l'éducation !

Stanislas DehaeneCollège de France - Année 2023-2024Agir pour l'éducationColloque - Musique, cerveau et apprentissages scolaires : que dit la science ? - Table ronde entre les orateurs du matinCette journée, proposée dans le cadre de l'initiative « Agir pour l'Éducation » du Collège de France en association avec la Fondation Vareille, permettra de mieux comprendre en quoi l'apprentissage d'un instrument, dès le plus jeune âge, peut être un formidable outil au service de la réussite des élèves. Jouer de la musique améliore-t-il les capacités cognitives des enfants ? Quels liens établir entre musique et langage, musique et mathématiques ? Comment évaluer l'impact de la pratique instrumentale sur le développement et les compétences des enfants ?Les Professeurs Stanislas Dehaene et Emmanuel Bigand, chercheurs en psychologie cognitive et neurosciences ont élaboré le programme de ce colloque. Nina Kraus, Assal Habibi et Robert Zatorre, chercheurs de renommée internationale ont répondu positivement à leur invitation, et exposeront en personne leurs travaux les plus récents sur le sujet.La France sera notamment présente au travers de l'expérimentation Un violon dans mon école. Ce dispositif international d'enseignement du violon est en place pour 8 500 élèves de 4 à 8 ans, tous scolarisés en éducation prioritaire. Il fait l'objet de travaux de recherche qui seront présentés par des équipes de laboratoires de Sciences Po/CNRS, de NeuroSpin et de l'École d'économie de Paris.Une occasion unique de faire le point sur un sujet qui interpelle le monde de l'éducation !

Stanislas DehaeneCollège de France - Année 2023-2024Agir pour l'éducationColloque - Musique, cerveau et apprentissages scolaires : que dit la science ? - Arguments scientifiques en faveur de l'éducation musicaleNina KrausProfesseure de sciences de la communication, de neurobiologie et d'oto-rhino-laryngologie à l'université Northwestern (États-Unis)Cette journée, proposée dans le cadre de l'initiative « Agir pour l'Éducation » du Collège de France en association avec la Fondation Vareille, permettra de mieux comprendre en quoi l'apprentissage d'un instrument, dès le plus jeune âge, peut être un formidable outil au service de la réussite des élèves. Jouer de la musique améliore-t-il les capacités cognitives des enfants ? Quels liens établir entre musique et langage, musique et mathématiques ? Comment évaluer l'impact de la pratique instrumentale sur le développement et les compétences des enfants ?Les Professeurs Stanislas Dehaene et Emmanuel Bigand, chercheurs en psychologie cognitive et neurosciences ont élaboré le programme de ce colloque. Nina Kraus, Assal Habibi et Robert Zatorre, chercheurs de renommée internationale ont répondu positivement à leur invitation, et exposeront en personne leurs travaux les plus récents sur le sujet.La France sera notamment présente au travers de l'expérimentation Un violon dans mon école. Ce dispositif international d'enseignement du violon est en place pour 8 500 élèves de 4 à 8 ans, tous scolarisés en éducation prioritaire. Il fait l'objet de travaux de recherche qui seront présentés par des équipes de laboratoires de Sciences Po/CNRS, de NeuroSpin et de l'École d'économie de Paris.Une occasion unique de faire le point sur un sujet qui interpelle le monde de l'éducation !

Stanislas DehaeneCollège de France - Année 2023-2024Agir pour l'éducationColloque - Musique, cerveau et apprentissages scolaires : que dit la science ? - Incitation à la plasticité neuronale par la stimulation comportementale, sensorielle et magnétique : relations entre les oscillations neuronales et la performanceRobert ZatorreProfesseur et chaire de recherche du Canada, Institut Neurologique de Montréal, Université McGillCette journée, proposée dans le cadre de l'initiative « Agir pour l'Éducation » du Collège de France en association avec la Fondation Vareille, permettra de mieux comprendre en quoi l'apprentissage d'un instrument, dès le plus jeune âge, peut être un formidable outil au service de la réussite des élèves. Jouer de la musique améliore-t-il les capacités cognitives des enfants ? Quels liens établir entre musique et langage, musique et mathématiques ? Comment évaluer l'impact de la pratique instrumentale sur le développement et les compétences des enfants ?Les Professeurs Stanislas Dehaene et Emmanuel Bigand, chercheurs en psychologie cognitive et neurosciences ont élaboré le programme de ce colloque. Nina Kraus, Assal Habibi et Robert Zatorre, chercheurs de renommée internationale ont répondu positivement à leur invitation, et exposeront en personne leurs travaux les plus récents sur le sujet.La France sera notamment présente au travers de l'expérimentation Un violon dans mon école. Ce dispositif international d'enseignement du violon est en place pour 8 500 élèves de 4 à 8 ans, tous scolarisés en éducation prioritaire. Il fait l'objet de travaux de recherche qui seront présentés par des équipes de laboratoires de Sciences Po/CNRS, de NeuroSpin et de l'École d'économie de Paris.Une occasion unique de faire le point sur un sujet qui interpelle le monde de l'éducation !

Stanislas DehaeneCollège de France - Année 2023-2024Agir pour l'éducationColloque - Musique, cerveau et apprentissages scolaires : que dit la science ? - Le « crescendo du cerveau » : comment la formation musicale enrichit le développement neurocognitif de l'enfantAssal HabibiProfesseure associée de recherche en psychologie Directrice du Centre de l'Université de Californie du Sud pour la musique, le cerveau et la société (États-Unis)Cette journée, proposée dans le cadre de l'initiative « Agir pour l'Éducation » du Collège de France en association avec la Fondation Vareille, permettra de mieux comprendre en quoi l'apprentissage d'un instrument, dès le plus jeune âge, peut être un formidable outil au service de la réussite des élèves. Jouer de la musique améliore-t-il les capacités cognitives des enfants ? Quels liens établir entre musique et langage, musique et mathématiques ? Comment évaluer l'impact de la pratique instrumentale sur le développement et les compétences des enfants ?Les Professeurs Stanislas Dehaene et Emmanuel Bigand, chercheurs en psychologie cognitive et neurosciences ont élaboré le programme de ce colloque. Nina Kraus, Assal Habibi et Robert Zatorre, chercheurs de renommée internationale ont répondu positivement à leur invitation, et exposeront en personne leurs travaux les plus récents sur le sujet.La France sera notamment présente au travers de l'expérimentation Un violon dans mon école. Ce dispositif international d'enseignement du violon est en place pour 8 500 élèves de 4 à 8 ans, tous scolarisés en éducation prioritaire. Il fait l'objet de travaux de recherche qui seront présentés par des équipes de laboratoires de Sciences Po/CNRS, de NeuroSpin et de l'École d'économie de Paris.Une occasion unique de faire le point sur un sujet qui interpelle le monde de l'éducation !

Stanislas DehaeneCollège de France - Année 2023-2024Agir pour l'éducationColloque - Musique, cerveau et apprentissages scolaires : que dit la science ? - Conférence-concert inaugurale : « Quand la musique fait swinger les neurones »Emmanuel BigandProfesseur de psychologie cognitive, CNRS, Université de BourgogneRolling String QuartetCette journée, proposée dans le cadre de l'initiative « Agir pour l'Éducation » du Collège de France en association avec la Fondation Vareille, permettra de mieux comprendre en quoi l'apprentissage d'un instrument, dès le plus jeune âge, peut être un formidable outil au service de la réussite des élèves. Jouer de la musique améliore-t-il les capacités cognitives des enfants ? Quels liens établir entre musique et langage, musique et mathématiques ? Comment évaluer l'impact de la pratique instrumentale sur le développement et les compétences des enfants ?Les Professeurs Stanislas Dehaene et Emmanuel Bigand, chercheurs en psychologie cognitive et neurosciences ont élaboré le programme de ce colloque. Nina Kraus, Assal Habibi et Robert Zatorre, chercheurs de renommée internationale ont répondu positivement à leur invitation, et exposeront en personne leurs travaux les plus récents sur le sujet.La France sera notamment présente au travers de l'expérimentation Un violon dans mon école. Ce dispositif international d'enseignement du violon est en place pour 8 500 élèves de 4 à 8 ans, tous scolarisés en éducation prioritaire. Il fait l'objet de travaux de recherche qui seront présentés par des équipes de laboratoires de Sciences Po/CNRS, de NeuroSpin et de l'École d'économie de Paris.Une occasion unique de faire le point sur un sujet qui interpelle le monde de l'éducation !

Stanislas DehaeneCollège de France - Année 2023-2024Agir pour l'éducationColloque - Musique, cerveau et apprentissages scolaires : que dit la science ? - Le point de vue du musicienKarol BeffaCompositeur, Professeur invité, Collège de FranceCette journée, proposée dans le cadre de l'initiative « Agir pour l'Éducation » du Collège de France en association avec la Fondation Vareille, permettra de mieux comprendre en quoi l'apprentissage d'un instrument, dès le plus jeune âge, peut être un formidable outil au service de la réussite des élèves. Jouer de la musique améliore-t-il les capacités cognitives des enfants ? Quels liens établir entre musique et langage, musique et mathématiques ? Comment évaluer l'impact de la pratique instrumentale sur le développement et les compétences des enfants ?Les Professeurs Stanislas Dehaene et Emmanuel Bigand, chercheurs en psychologie cognitive et neurosciences ont élaboré le programme de ce colloque. Nina Kraus, Assal Habibi et Robert Zatorre, chercheurs de renommée internationale ont répondu positivement à leur invitation, et exposeront en personne leurs travaux les plus récents sur le sujet.La France sera notamment présente au travers de l'expérimentation Un violon dans mon école. Ce dispositif international d'enseignement du violon est en place pour 8 500 élèves de 4 à 8 ans, tous scolarisés en éducation prioritaire. Il fait l'objet de travaux de recherche qui seront présentés par des équipes de laboratoires de Sciences Po/CNRS, de NeuroSpin et de l'École d'économie de Paris.Une occasion unique de faire le point sur un sujet qui interpelle le monde de l'éducation !

Stanislas DehaeneCollège de France - Année 2023-2024Agir pour l'éducationNée en 2022 de la volonté des professeurs du Collège de France d'agir face à la situation de crise que traverse le système éducatif français, l'initiative Agir pour l'éducation – Un enjeu scientifique pour la société a pour ambition de placer la recherche scientifique, ses méthodes, ses analyses, ses expérimentations et ses résultats, au service de l'école et de contribuer à faire vivre la promesse républicaine de l'éducation pour tous.Colloque - Musique, cerveau et apprentissages scolaires : que dit la science ? - OuvertureStanislas DehaeneProfesseur du Collège de FranceEmmanuel BigandProfesseur de psychologie cognitive, CNRS, Université de BourgogneCette journée, proposée dans le cadre de l'initiative « Agir pour l'Éducation » du Collège de France en association avec la Fondation Vareille, permettra de mieux comprendre en quoi l'apprentissage d'un instrument, dès le plus jeune âge, peut être un formidable outil au service de la réussite des élèves. Jouer de la musique améliore-t-il les capacités cognitives des enfants ? Quels liens établir entre musique et langage, musique et mathématiques ? Comment évaluer l'impact de la pratique instrumentale sur le développement et les compétences des enfants ?Les Professeurs Stanislas Dehaene et Emmanuel Bigand, chercheurs en psychologie cognitive et neurosciences ont élaboré le programme de ce colloque. Nina Kraus, Assal Habibi et Robert Zatorre, chercheurs de renommée internationale ont répondu positivement à leur invitation, et exposeront en personne leurs travaux les plus récents sur le sujet.La France sera notamment présente au travers de l'expérimentation Un violon dans mon école. Ce dispositif international d'enseignement du violon est en place pour 8 500 élèves de 4 à 8 ans, tous scolarisés en éducation prioritaire. Il fait l'objet de travaux de recherche qui seront présentés par des équipes de laboratoires de Sciences Po/CNRS, de NeuroSpin et de l'École d'économie de Paris.Une occasion unique de faire le point sur un sujet qui interpelle le monde de l'éducation !

Dr. Nina Kraus, PhD joins Dr. Ben Thompson, AuD for a lively discussion around how to heal tinnitus. Modern neuroscience allows us to realize the full spectrum of what's possible for tinnitus treatment.Get started with Treble Health:Schedule a complimentary telehealth consultation: treble.health/free-telehealth-consultation Take the tinnitus quiz: https://treble.health/tinnitus-quiz-1Download the Ultimate Tinnitus Guide: 2024 Edition: https://treble.health/tinnitus-guide-2024

Bob Traynor is joined by Dr. Frank Musiek to discuss an upcoming symposium focused on the latest insights into Central Auditory Processing Disorders (CAPD) and Neuroaudiology. The upcoming event, titled "Quest for the Best CAPD and Neuroaudiology," will bring together a panel of distinguished experts to explore advancements and practical applications in the field. From discussing diagnostic methodologies to sharing rehabilitation strategies, attendees can expect a comprehensive overview of current research and clinical practices. Join leading figures like Doris Bamiou, Nina Kraus, and Jeanane Ferre as they delve into the intersection of science and clinical expertise. Whether you're a seasoned audiologist or a researcher, this symposium offers an invaluable opportunity to deepen your understanding and engage in meaningful discussions. For more details about the symposium, taking place on April 27th, visit: https://hearinghealthmatters.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/Pathways_Agenda2-1.pdf

In this episode, Longitude fellow Joanna McDonald speaks with Nina Kraus, a professor at Northwestern University and the author of “Of Sound Mind: How our brain constructs a meaningful sonic world.”See transcript at https://longitude.site/understanding-effects-of-noise/We hope you enjoy our episodes and share them with friends.This podcast is a production of Longitude.site, a 501(c)3 charitable organization, enabling cross-generational conversations that bring scientific and creative endeavors to broad audiences. College students are engaged in leading informational interviews and presenting highlights in our episodes. If you would like to explore a partnership for our programming, contact us at podcast@longitude.site.Support the show

Part two of the conversation with Dr. Nina Kraus examines how we find our sense of belonging within our sonic worlds. Speaking of how sound connects us, we enter dialogues about modulations of harmony, synchrony, the power of singing, and how musical training may make us more emotionally sensitive to harmonic cues within human voice. Turning to bilingualism, we examine gains of bilingual abilities, including the grouping of auditory objects, attention, and inhibitory control. The podcast concludes with an examination of the violence of noise, wartime sound and trauma, and the cumulative health effects upon communities.The Music & Peacebuilding Podcast is hosted by Kevin Shorner-Johnson at Elizabethtown College. Join our professional development network at www.musicpeacebuilding.com - thinking deeply we reclaim space for connection and care.

In this two-part series with Dr. Nina Kraus we examine the neuroscience of our hearing brains, exploring how we make meaning from our sonic worlds. In episode 1, we look at the afferent and efferent journeys as our brains construct meaning from sonic experience. Examining reading, we understand how reading is powered by the strength of our recognition of frequency, harmonics, FM sweeps, and other ingredients. In Episode 2, we explore the impact of musical training and bilingual experience on comprehension, synchrony, abilities to hear sounds in noise, our belonging, and our empathetic capacities to respond to affect. The two-episode series concludes with an examination of the violence of noise and sound and resulting impacts on our health and wellbeing.The Music & Peacebuilding Podcast is hosted by Kevin Shorner-Johnson at Elizabethtown College. Join our professional development network at www.musicpeacebuilding.com - thinking deeply we reclaim space for connection and care.

Nina Kraus is the Hugh Knowles professor of communication Sciences, neurobiology and otolaryngology at Northwestern University with her B.A. from Swarthmore College and her Ph.D. in neuroscience from Northwestern. Nina directs the Brain Bolts Laboratory. She's written over 400 articles and is the author of the book We're going to discuss today of Sound Mind how Our Brain Constructs a Meaningful Sonic World. 

What led you to pursue a career in auditory neuroscience and what is the mission behind your laboratory, Brainvolts? What is the effect of bilingualism on Alzheimer's disease? How can sound be used for the assessment of traumatic brain injury and other neurological conditions? In this episode, Dr. Nina Kraus addresses these questions and much more about the clinical applications for auditory neuroscience research. Her laboratory at Northwestern University, Brainvolts, has discovered how to measure the biology of auditory processing with unprecedented precision. The implications of the research conducted there extends beyond the laboratory to schools, community centers, and clinics. Nina Kraus, Ph.D. is a professor at Northwestern University who studies the biology of auditory learning. Through a series of innovative studies involving thousands of research participants from birth to age 90, her research has found that our lives in sound, for better (musicians, bilinguals) or worse (language disorders, concussion, aging, hearing loss), shape auditory processing. She continues to conduct parallel experiments in animal models to elucidate the mechanisms underlying these phenomena. Never having accepted a lack of technology as a roadblock to scientific discovery, Kraus has invented new ways to measure the biology of sound processing in humans that provide precision and granularity in indexing brain function. With her technological innovations she is now pushing science beyond the traditional laboratory by conducting studies in schools, community centers, and clinics. Using the principles of neuroscience to improve human communication, she advocates for best practices in education, health, and social policy. Dr. Kraus is the author of the book “Of Sound Mind: How our Brain Constructs a Meaningful Sonic World.” Resources: Brainvolts: https://brainvolts.northwestern.edu/about-us/ Learn more about Of Sound Mind: How our Brain Constructs a Meaningful Sonic World: https://www.amazon.com/Sound-Mind-Brain-Constructs-Meaningful/dp/0262045869# BEAMS hypothesis: https://brainvolts.northwestern.edu/wp-content/uploads/2021/07/Kraus_BEAMS_2021-1.pdf

Warburg Pincus's Lauren Zletz, Neuberger Berman's Sandeep Mirani and Hamilton Lane's Nina Kraus share their career stories and advice on breaking into the private equity industry.

This week, Dave Kemp interviews Dr. Jacqueline Scholl, Dr. Nina Kraus, and Oklahoma State Representative Meloyde Blancett to discuss the shortcomings of the current hearing testing methods for children in schools. Dr. Scholl shares her personal experience with her son who was initially misdiagnosed with ADHD but later found to have a significant auditory processing disorder. She also talks about her shock upon discovering that the state of Oklahoma did not require hearing screenings in schools. Dr. Kraus offers her insights into the development of the auditory brain and how hearing deficits can affect reading ability. The panel emphasizes that a significant number of children with auditory pathway problems are being diagnosed and medicated for various conditions, while auditory issues are frequently overlooked. Be sure to subscribe to our YouTube channel for the latest episodes each week, and follow This Week in Hearing on LinkedIn and Twitter: https://www.linkedin.com/company/this... https://twitter.com/WeekinHearing

This month's episode (BS 203) celebrates the 16th Anniversary of Brain Science with the annual review episode. This is a listener favorite providing highlights and key ideas from the episodes of Brain Science that were posted in 2022. Topics included hearing, grief, emotion, embodied cognition, consciousness and more. Note: This month's episode transcript is FREE.  Please Visit Our Sponsors: MasterClass at masterclass.com/ginger TextExpander at textexpander.com/brain-science 2022 Episodes of Brain Science: BS 192 Nina Kraus, author of Of Sound Mind: How Our Brain Constructs a Meaningful Sonic World BS 193 The Embodied Mind: exploring the implications of embodied cognition BS 194 Mary-Frances O'Connor, author of The Grieving Brain: The Surprising Science of How We Learn from Love and Loss BS 195 David J Anderson, author of The Nature of the Beast: How Emotions Guide Us BS 196 Hakwan Lau, author of In Consciousness we Trust: The Cognitive Neuroscience of Subjective Experience BS 197 Frank Amthor, author of Neuroscience for Dummies and Neurobiology for Dummies  BS 198 Evan Thompson, author of Mind in Life: Biology. Phenomenology, and the Sciences of Mind BS 199 Batja Mesquita, author of Between Us: How Cultures Create Emotions BS 200 Jennifer Fugate and Sheila Macrine, editors of Movement Matters: How Embodied Cognition Informs Teaching and Learning BS 201 Bill Harris, author of Zero to Birth: How the Human Brain Is Built BS 202 Evan Thompson, on meditation and embodied cognition Please visit http://brainsciencepodcast.com for more episodes. Connect on Social Media Twitter: @docartemis Facebook page: http://www.facebook.com/brainsciencepodcast Contact Dr. Campbell: Email: brainsciencepodcast@gmail.com

Close your eyes and just listen. Even if you aren't actively thinking about the noises happening around you, your brain is constantly processing sound. That's because, unlike your eyes, your ears never close. In fact, Northwestern neurobiology professor Nina Kraus, says listening is one of the hardest tasks we ask our brains to do. On today's episode, Kraus explains how the sounds we're surrounded by everyday – like a noisy leaf blower or the soothing sound of music – really matter and can impact our physical and mental health. Plus, she shares tips for building a healthy “sonic world.” To learn more about how CNN protects listener privacy, visit cnn.com/privacy

Our life experiences shape the way that our brain processes sound, and sound is deeply intertwined with everything from our ability to read to our cognitive health as we age. Dr. Nina Kraus, of Northwestern University, talks about why we undervalue our sense of hearing; why musicians, athletes and bilingual people often have superior sound-processing abilities; why sound is crucial to language and reading; and how unwanted noise can harm not only our ears but also our brain.

It's difficult not to admire the talent of a skilled musician. Whether it be a pianist, flautist or cellist, these individuals have shown dedication and passion over a long period of time to reach the highest levels of performance. But they say it's never too late to learn. So what are the benefits, for both children and adults, in learning a musical instrument?很难不钦佩一位技艺高超的音乐家的才华。无论是钢琴家、长笛演奏家还是大提琴演奏家，这些人在很长一段时间内都表现出了奉献精神和热情，以达到最高水平的表演。但他们说学习永远不会太晚。那么学习乐器对儿童和成人有什么好处呢？Learning to play a musical instrument when growing up can improve hearing in adulthood. According to a study by Dr Nina Kraus, Professor of Neurobiology at Northwestern University in Illinois, US, children who played musical instruments were better at recognising different frequencies. This improved hearing skill carried over into later life with adults who had once played an instrument able to discern sounds of different pitches more easily. And it could also have some academic benefits too. A study conducted by the University of British Columbia found that students who engaged in music-related activities during grades 7-12 scored significantly higher in science, English and maths.长大后学习演奏乐器可以改善成年后的听力。根据美国伊利诺伊州西北大学神经生物学教授 Nina Kraus 博士的一项研究，演奏乐器的儿童更善于识别不同的频率。这种改进的听力技巧在曾经演奏过能够更容易辨别不同音高声音的乐器的成年人身上延续到了以后的生活中。它也可能有一些学术上的好处。不列颠哥伦比亚大学进行的一项研究发现，在 7-12 年级从事音乐相关活动的学生在科学、英语和数学方面的得分明显更高。And there are not just benefits to children. Whether you choose to play the piano, pick or strum a guitar or learn a drumbeat, you could end up joining a band or orchestra. This in turn could improve your social life, meeting other bandmates who are likeminded in their love of a good tune. Learning an instrument can also give you a sense of achievement. Nailing that perfect chord is one way, but what if you got together with a bunch of friends and entered into a battle of the bands – and won?不仅对儿童有好处。无论您选择弹钢琴、弹奏或弹奏吉他，还是学习打鼓，您最终都可能加入乐队或管弦乐队。这反过来可以改善您的社交生活，结识其他志同道合的好曲子爱好者。学习一门乐器也能让你有成就感。掌握完美的和弦是一种方式，但如果您与一群朋友聚在一起并参加乐队之战并获胜怎么办？So, whether you're looking to destress playing out some chords, or improve your grades at school, maybe taking up an instrument could help you.因此，无论您是想减轻弹奏和弦的压力，还是想提高您在学校的成绩，学习乐器都可能对您有所帮助。词汇表pianist 钢琴家flautist 长笛手cellist 大提琴手dedication 专注，投入passion 热情frequency 频率pitch 音高pick 弹拨strum 扫拨guitar 吉他drumbeat 鼓点band 乐队orchestra 管弦乐队bandmate 乐队中的队友tune 曲子nail 成功地做chord 和弦battle of the bands “乐队大赛”（指表演选出最优秀乐队的比赛）

Dr. Nina Kraus, PhD, is a scientist, inventor, and musician that has devoted her life to studying the biology of auditory learning, ultimately finding that our auditory lives shape our auditory processing. Today Dr. Kraus and Dr. Ben will discuss brain plasticity and the effect that it can have on tinnitus. 

I sit down with Dr. Nina Kraus to discuss her book, Of Sound Mind: How our Brain Constructs a Meaningful Sonic World.Topics:The importance of soundWhat is the sound mind?How sound shapes our brainsHow the mind replays sound in our headsHow the mind adapts in musicians The deaf vs hearing brainResources:Of Sound Mind - https://amzn.to/3PD6x1AOn Matter with Things: Our Brains, Our Delusions and the Unmaking of the World  - https://amzn.to/3wL8xxnThe Songs of Trees - https://amzn.to/3NExxvODr. Nina Kraus is Hugh Knowles Professor of Communication Sciences, Neurobiology, and Otolaryngology at Northwestern University. As a biologist and amateur musician, she thinks about sound and brain health. Her research has found that our lives in sound, for better (musicians, bilinguals) and for worse (concussion, hearing loss, language disorders, noise), shape how our brain makes sense of the sounds we hear. Her book, Of Sound Mind - How our Brain Constructs a Meaningful Sonic World, was written for the intellectually curious.Kraus advocates for biologically informed choices in education, health, and society. Seewww.brainvolts.northwestern.eduSocials! -Website: https://www.aimingforthemoon.com/Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/aiming4moon/Twitter: https://twitter.com/Aiming4MoonTaylor's Blog: https://www.taylorgbledsoe.com/YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC6-TwYdfPcWV-V1JvjBXkAll Amazon Affiliate links help financially support "Aiming for the Moon" while you get a great read or product.

I had the pleasure of speaking with Dr Nina Kraus from Northwestern University about her work investigating sound processing in the brain and her new book "Of Sound Mind."  Nina Kraus is Hugh Knowles Professor of Communication Sciences, Neurobiology, and Otolaryngology at Northwestern University. As a biologist and amateur musician, she thinks about sound and brain health. Her research has found that our lives in sound, for better (musicians, bilinguals) and for worse (concussion, hearing loss, language disorders, noise), shape how our brain makes sense of the sounds we hear. Her book OF SOUND MIND - How our Brain Constructs a Meaningful Sonic World, was written for the intellectually curious.Kraus advocates for biologically informed choices in education, health, and society. We did not touch on all the topics discussed in her book so I encourage you to read Of Sound Mind.  Episode Thoughts:Firstly I wish to emphasis the importance of expanding our knowledges to be more aware of the impact of sound on our neuroceptive system and as a consequence our ability to maintain optimal homeostasis for mental and physiological wellbeing.  Dr Krause quotes Helen Kellor ….:blindness disconnects us from things, deafness disconnects us from people” As PV informed individuals or therapists we certainly understand the importance of being able to connect. How we process sound- voices greatly impacts this.Nina's work has expanded our knowledge of the importance of the more complex neural feedback system from the brain to the ear to fine-tune our listening and create the connection of meaning in sound. Her lab has developed key measures of understanding auditory processing in the brain. Interestingly significant processing occurs in the midbrain where we know there are connections to the amygdala and motor centers - which are wired to speedily process sound for safety or defence.Kruse also speaks about… whole brain processing of sound with significant cross-talk with other senses. She says that making sense of sound is profoundly governed by how we feel, think, see and move and conversely influences how we feel, think, see and move and that…”the sounds of our lives shape our brain” Sound is an invisible ally or enemy of brain healthTopics covered include:Why is hearing underestimated?Neural processing of sound in the brain.EEG and Sound Stimuli.Rhythms - brain and body in relation to understanding speech and reading.Dyslexia and sound processing.Sound is complex- upsweeps, harmonics, rhythm, timing....Sound Processing in AutismConcussions and how sound processing is impacted.The Aging brain and sound processing."Safe" Noise and the detrimental effects on our health.How to maintain a healthy "Sound Mind."My next Guest is Dr Arielle Shwartz who is teaches about PVT and yogaTake care till next timeBreath Slow, JoanneLinkswww.brainvolts.northwestern.eduKraus N Editorial: RHYTHM: A Case for Digital Music Medicine. Hearing Journal.Bonacina S, Krizman J, White-Schwoch T, Nicol T, Kraus N How rhythmic skills relate and develop in school-age children. Global Pediatric Health.Bonacina S, Krizman J, White-Schwoch T, Kraus N

What led you to pursue a career in auditory neuroscience and what is the mission behind your laboratory, Brainvolts? What is the effect of bilingualism on Alzheimer's disease? How can sound be used for the assessment of traumatic brain injury and other neurological conditions? In this episode, Dr. Nina Kraus addresses these questions and much more about the clinical applications for auditory neuroscience research. Her laboratory at Northwestern University, Brainvolts has discovered how to measure the biology of auditory processing with unprecedented precision. The implications of the research conducted there extends beyond the laboratory to schools, community centers, and clinics. Nina Kraus, Ph.D. is a professor at Northwestern University who studies the biology of auditory learning. Through a series of innovative studies involving thousands of research participants from birth to age 90, her research has found that our lives in sound, for better (musicians, bilinguals) or worse (language disorders, concussion, aging, hearing loss), shape auditory processing. She continues to conduct parallel experiments in animal models to elucidate the mechanisms underlying these phenomena. Never having accepted a lack of technology as a roadblock to scientific discovery, Kraus has invented new ways to measure the biology of sound processing in humans that provide precision and granularity in indexing brain function. With her technological innovations she is now pushing science beyond the traditional laboratory by conducting studies in schools, community centers, and clinics. Using the principles of neuroscience to improve human communication, she advocates for best practices in education, health, and social policy. Dr. Kraus is the author of the book “Of Sound Mind: How our Brain Constructs a Meaningful Sonic World”. Resources: Link to “Of Sound Mind: How our Brain Constructs a Meaningful Sonic World”: https://www.amazon.com/Sound-Mind-Brain-Constructs-Meaningful/dp/0262045869#:~:text=Of%20Sound%20Mind%3A%20How%20Our,9780262045865%3A%20Amazon.com%3A%20Books Link to Brainvolts: https://brainvolts.northwestern.edu/about-us/ Link to BEAMS hypothesis: https://brainvolts.northwestern.edu/wp-content/uploads/2021/07/Kraus_BEAMS_2021-1.pdf

Sound is all around us but because we live in a visually biased world, we have lost track of how important sound is.Sound is all around us but because we live in a visually biased world, we have lost track of how important sound is.That is the mission behind Dr. Nina Kraus' work, to remind us of the power of sound. She says scientists have trouble communicating their research to the masses, and she wants to help us fully understand the sonic world we live in.Nina Kraus, Ph.D., is a scientist, inventor, and amateur musician who studies the biology of auditory learning. She began her career measuring responses from single auditory neurons and was one of the first to show that the adult nervous system has the potential for reorganization following learning; these insights in basic biology galvanized her to investigate auditory learning in humans.In her latest book In Of Sound Mind, Dr.Kraus examines the partnership of sound and brain, showing for the first time that the processing of sound drives many of the brain's core functions. Kraus does on to explore what goes on in our brains when we hear a word--or a chord, or a meow, or a screech.

Sound is all around us but because we live in a visually biased world, we have lost track of how important sound is.That is the mission behind Dr. Nina Kraus' work, to remind us of the power of sound. She says scientists have trouble communicating their research to the masses, and she wants to help us fully understand the sonic world we live in.Nina Kraus, Ph.D., is a scientist, inventor, and amateur musician who studies the biology of auditory learning. She began her career measuring responses from single auditory neurons and was one of the first to show that the adult nervous system has the potential for reorganization following learning; these insights in basic biology galvanized her to investigate auditory learning in humans.In her latest book In Of Sound Mind, Dr.Kraus examines the partnership of sound and brain, showing for the first time that the processing of sound drives many of the brain's core functions. Kraus does on to explore what goes on in our brains when we hear a word--or a chord, or a meow, or a screech.

The power of music and sound to heal the mind and body is being unlocked through new neuroscience research and education. Exciting developments are showing how music and sound can tap into important brain functions and even treat such conditions as Autism, concussion, Alzheimer's, and even aging. Yasi and Steven talk to two people at the forefront of this exploding field. Acclaimed soprano Renèe Fleming is not only one of the most famous performers in our history, she also spearheads multiple health initiatives involving Arts and Health, such as the Healing Breath Initiative, the NeuroArts Blueprint, the Sound Health Network, and the Music and Mind Live web series. She is joined today by Professor Nina Kraus of Northwestern University, founder of the BrainVolts Auditory Neuroscience Laboratory, and leader of an NIH-funded investigation at Northwestern to look at treating concussions with sound and rhythm. She also wrote "Of Sound Mind - How Our Brain Constructs a Meaningful Sonic World." For more about Renèe Fleming, go to https://reneefleming.com For more about Nina Kraus and her BrainVolts lab, go to https://www.brainvolts.northwestern.edu. For Nina's book, "Of Sound Mind", go to https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/675902/of-sound-mind-by-nina-kraus/ For more about Athletes and the Arts, go to https://www.athletesandthearts.com

This month's episode of Brain Science is an interview with Nina Kraus, author of "Of Sound Mind: How Our Brain Constructs a Meaningful Sonic World." Dr. Kraus has spent 30 years exploring how the brain processes sound. We explore why sound processing involves much more that just the auditory cortex as well how the sounds we experience change our brains, both for better and for worse. Links and References: Of Sound Mind: How Our Brain Constructs a Meaningful Sonic World by Nina Kraus Nina Kraus, PhD, Northwestern University BrainVolts website Please visit http://brainsciencepodcast.com for additional references and episode transcripts.   Please Visit Our Sponsors: TextExpander at textexpander.com/podcast Announcements: Please visit brainsciencepodcast.com and let me know what you think of the updated website. Get free gift "5 Things You Need to Know about YOUR Brain when you sign up for the free Brain Science Newsletter to get show notes automatically every month. You can also text brainscience to 55444 to sign up. Check out the Brain Science podcast channel on YouTube for episode excerpts and summaries. Support Brain Science by buying Are You Sure? The Unconscious Origins of Certainty by Virginia "Ginger" Campbell, MD. (Autographed copies are available) Check out the free Brain Science Mobile app for iOS, Android, and Windows. (It's a great way to get both new episodes and premium content.) Learn more ways to support Brain Science at http://brainsciencepodcast.com/donations Connect on Social Media: Twitter: @docartemis Facebook page: http://www.facebook.com/brainsciencepodcast Contact Dr. Campbell: Email: brainsciencepodcast@gmail.com

Host Dave Schlom revisits a chat with Northwestern University neuroscientist Nina Kraus about her work on the science of sound and its importance to our brains.

In a career spanning over 45 years, Harvey has served in a number of academic, clinical, research, administrative, and consulting capacities with the Department of Veterans Affairs, the Department of Defense, academia, and industry to include Chief of the Audiology and Speech Pathology Service and Associate Chief of Staff for Research and Development at the Bay Pines VA Healthcare System, the Director of Research at the Army Audiology and Speech Center at Walter Reed Army Medical Center, and the Director of Audiology Research at Starkey Hearing Technologies. He currently serves as the Head of Research Audiology at Lively Hearing Corporation. In this episode… Hearing is a sense that we often take for granted. We assume we'll always have that ability until it starts to diminish or fail. Underneath the surface, however, is an incredibly complex system that makes it all possible. There's still so much we're learning about when it comes to the biology of hearing, and at the forefront of this research is Dr. Nina Kraus. As a professor at Northwestern, Dr. Kraus has found some illuminating research on the plasticity of the mind and the science of auditory learning. Her lab, Brainvolts, seeks to discover more on the subject while also educating the greater public. Now she's here to keep us in the know about her innovative studies and where the field is going. In this episode of the ListenUp! Podcast, Dr. Mark Syms talks with Dr. Nina Kraus, a professor of Neurobiology and Otolaryngology at Northwestern University, to learn about the biology behind hearing and how it all works together. The two discuss a host of topics, including why hearing is such a unique sense, the latest tools for measuring hearing, and the overlooked factors behind hearing problems. They also touch on her book, Of Sound Mind, and the culmination of her research.

Please support EndoGenius by subscribing on Apple Podcasts, leaving a 5-star review, and sharing with your friends and family!For the first time, we understand that the processing of sound drives many of the brain's core functions, thanks to the work of Dr. Nina Kraus and her book Of Sound Mind: How Our Brain Constructs a Meaningful Sonic World. Dr. Kraus is a Professor of Neurobiology in the Department of Communication Science & Disorders, and the head of the Brain Volts Lab at Northwestern University. She explores the role sound plays in brain health, the power of music for healing, the destructive power of noise on the nervous system. She traces what happens in the brain when we speak another language, have a language disorder, experience rhythm, listen to the noises of nature, or suffer an injury. Kraus shows how our engagement with sound leaves a fundamental imprint on who we are.In this episode, we discuss: What Sound Is and the Ingredients Sound is Comprised OfHow Our Brains Interpret SoundThe Similarities between Sound Waves and Brain WavesThe Relationship between Auditory Processing and CognitionHow Head Trauma Can Impact Our Ability to Learn New ThingsWhy Music Brings Us into the Present MomentHow to Strengthen and Preserve Hearing Ability Over TimeConnect with Nina:Book: Of Sound MindWebsite:  Brain Volts LabInstagram: @BrainVoltsNUTwitter: @BrainVolts Connect with Ahmed:Website: https://ahmednayel.com/ Facebook: Ahmed NayelInstagram: @the.ahmed.nayelTwitter: @theahmednayelYouTubeReminder: Listening is great, but don't forget to apply what you learned in your life.Thank you for tuning in!

The Science of Sound with Dr. Nina Kraus

We undervalue our sense of hearing and we under-appreciate the impact sweet sounds and disturbing noises have on our well-being. Neuroscientist Nina Kraus of Northwestern University talks about her book, Of Sound Mind. Kraus argues that our listening affects our minds and brains in ways we ignore at our peril.

Making sense of sound is one of the hardest jobs we ask our brains to do. In Of Sound Mind: How Our Brain Constructs a Meaningful Sonic World (MIT Press, 2021), Nina Kraus examines the partnership of sound and brain, showing for the first time that the processing of sound drives many of the brain's core functions. Our hearing is always on—we can't close our ears the way we close our eyes—and yet we can ignore sounds that are unimportant. We don't just hear; we engage with sounds. Kraus explores what goes on in our brains when we hear a word—or a chord, or a meow, or a screech. Our hearing brain, Kraus tells us, is vast. It interacts with what we know, with our emotions, with how we think, with our movements, and with our other senses. Auditory neurons make calculations at one-thousandth of a second; hearing is the speediest of our senses. Sound plays an unrecognized role in both healthy and hurting brains. Kraus explores the power of music for healing as well as the destructive power of noise on the nervous system. She traces what happens in the brain when we speak another language, have a language disorder, experience rhythm, listen to birdsong, or suffer a concussion. Kraus shows how our engagement with sound leaves a fundamental imprint on who we are. The sounds of our lives shape our brains, for better and for worse, and help us build the sonic world we live in. Galina Limorenko is a doctoral candidate in Neuroscience with a focus on biochemistry and molecular biology of neurodegenerative diseases at EPFL in Switzerland. To discuss and propose the book for an interview you can reach her at galina.limorenko@epfl.ch. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/neuroscience

Making sense of sound is one of the hardest jobs we ask our brains to do. In Of Sound Mind: How Our Brain Constructs a Meaningful Sonic World (MIT Press, 2021), Nina Kraus examines the partnership of sound and brain, showing for the first time that the processing of sound drives many of the brain's core functions. Our hearing is always on—we can't close our ears the way we close our eyes—and yet we can ignore sounds that are unimportant. We don't just hear; we engage with sounds. Kraus explores what goes on in our brains when we hear a word—or a chord, or a meow, or a screech. Our hearing brain, Kraus tells us, is vast. It interacts with what we know, with our emotions, with how we think, with our movements, and with our other senses. Auditory neurons make calculations at one-thousandth of a second; hearing is the speediest of our senses. Sound plays an unrecognized role in both healthy and hurting brains. Kraus explores the power of music for healing as well as the destructive power of noise on the nervous system. She traces what happens in the brain when we speak another language, have a language disorder, experience rhythm, listen to birdsong, or suffer a concussion. Kraus shows how our engagement with sound leaves a fundamental imprint on who we are. The sounds of our lives shape our brains, for better and for worse, and help us build the sonic world we live in. Galina Limorenko is a doctoral candidate in Neuroscience with a focus on biochemistry and molecular biology of neurodegenerative diseases at EPFL in Switzerland. To discuss and propose the book for an interview you can reach her at galina.limorenko@epfl.ch. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Making sense of sound is one of the hardest jobs we ask our brains to do. In Of Sound Mind: How Our Brain Constructs a Meaningful Sonic World (MIT Press, 2021), Nina Kraus examines the partnership of sound and brain, showing for the first time that the processing of sound drives many of the brain's core functions. Our hearing is always on—we can't close our ears the way we close our eyes—and yet we can ignore sounds that are unimportant. We don't just hear; we engage with sounds. Kraus explores what goes on in our brains when we hear a word—or a chord, or a meow, or a screech. Our hearing brain, Kraus tells us, is vast. It interacts with what we know, with our emotions, with how we think, with our movements, and with our other senses. Auditory neurons make calculations at one-thousandth of a second; hearing is the speediest of our senses. Sound plays an unrecognized role in both healthy and hurting brains. Kraus explores the power of music for healing as well as the destructive power of noise on the nervous system. She traces what happens in the brain when we speak another language, have a language disorder, experience rhythm, listen to birdsong, or suffer a concussion. Kraus shows how our engagement with sound leaves a fundamental imprint on who we are. The sounds of our lives shape our brains, for better and for worse, and help us build the sonic world we live in. Galina Limorenko is a doctoral candidate in Neuroscience with a focus on biochemistry and molecular biology of neurodegenerative diseases at EPFL in Switzerland. To discuss and propose the book for an interview you can reach her at galina.limorenko@epfl.ch. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/sound-studies

Making sense of sound is one of the hardest jobs we ask our brains to do. In Of Sound Mind: How Our Brain Constructs a Meaningful Sonic World (MIT Press, 2021), Nina Kraus examines the partnership of sound and brain, showing for the first time that the processing of sound drives many of the brain's core functions. Our hearing is always on—we can't close our ears the way we close our eyes—and yet we can ignore sounds that are unimportant. We don't just hear; we engage with sounds. Kraus explores what goes on in our brains when we hear a word—or a chord, or a meow, or a screech. Our hearing brain, Kraus tells us, is vast. It interacts with what we know, with our emotions, with how we think, with our movements, and with our other senses. Auditory neurons make calculations at one-thousandth of a second; hearing is the speediest of our senses. Sound plays an unrecognized role in both healthy and hurting brains. Kraus explores the power of music for healing as well as the destructive power of noise on the nervous system. She traces what happens in the brain when we speak another language, have a language disorder, experience rhythm, listen to birdsong, or suffer a concussion. Kraus shows how our engagement with sound leaves a fundamental imprint on who we are. The sounds of our lives shape our brains, for better and for worse, and help us build the sonic world we live in. Galina Limorenko is a doctoral candidate in Neuroscience with a focus on biochemistry and molecular biology of neurodegenerative diseases at EPFL in Switzerland. To discuss and propose the book for an interview you can reach her at galina.limorenko@epfl.ch. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/new-books-network

Making sense of sound is one of the hardest jobs we ask our brains to do. In Of Sound Mind: How Our Brain Constructs a Meaningful Sonic World (MIT Press, 2021), Nina Kraus examines the partnership of sound and brain, showing for the first time that the processing of sound drives many of the brain's core functions. Our hearing is always on—we can't close our ears the way we close our eyes—and yet we can ignore sounds that are unimportant. We don't just hear; we engage with sounds. Kraus explores what goes on in our brains when we hear a word—or a chord, or a meow, or a screech. Our hearing brain, Kraus tells us, is vast. It interacts with what we know, with our emotions, with how we think, with our movements, and with our other senses. Auditory neurons make calculations at one-thousandth of a second; hearing is the speediest of our senses. Sound plays an unrecognized role in both healthy and hurting brains. Kraus explores the power of music for healing as well as the destructive power of noise on the nervous system. She traces what happens in the brain when we speak another language, have a language disorder, experience rhythm, listen to birdsong, or suffer a concussion. Kraus shows how our engagement with sound leaves a fundamental imprint on who we are. The sounds of our lives shape our brains, for better and for worse, and help us build the sonic world we live in. Galina Limorenko is a doctoral candidate in Neuroscience with a focus on biochemistry and molecular biology of neurodegenerative diseases at EPFL in Switzerland. To discuss and propose the book for an interview you can reach her at galina.limorenko@epfl.ch. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/music

Making sense of sound is one of the hardest jobs we ask our brains to do. In Of Sound Mind: How Our Brain Constructs a Meaningful Sonic World (MIT Press, 2021), Nina Kraus examines the partnership of sound and brain, showing for the first time that the processing of sound drives many of the brain's core functions. Our hearing is always on—we can't close our ears the way we close our eyes—and yet we can ignore sounds that are unimportant. We don't just hear; we engage with sounds. Kraus explores what goes on in our brains when we hear a word—or a chord, or a meow, or a screech. Our hearing brain, Kraus tells us, is vast. It interacts with what we know, with our emotions, with how we think, with our movements, and with our other senses. Auditory neurons make calculations at one-thousandth of a second; hearing is the speediest of our senses. Sound plays an unrecognized role in both healthy and hurting brains. Kraus explores the power of music for healing as well as the destructive power of noise on the nervous system. She traces what happens in the brain when we speak another language, have a language disorder, experience rhythm, listen to birdsong, or suffer a concussion. Kraus shows how our engagement with sound leaves a fundamental imprint on who we are. The sounds of our lives shape our brains, for better and for worse, and help us build the sonic world we live in. Galina Limorenko is a doctoral candidate in Neuroscience with a focus on biochemistry and molecular biology of neurodegenerative diseases at EPFL in Switzerland. To discuss and propose the book for an interview you can reach her at galina.limorenko@epfl.ch. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/language

Making sense of sound is one of the hardest jobs we ask our brains to do. In Of Sound Mind: How Our Brain Constructs a Meaningful Sonic World (MIT Press, 2021), Nina Kraus examines the partnership of sound and brain, showing for the first time that the processing of sound drives many of the brain's core functions. Our hearing is always on—we can't close our ears the way we close our eyes—and yet we can ignore sounds that are unimportant. We don't just hear; we engage with sounds. Kraus explores what goes on in our brains when we hear a word—or a chord, or a meow, or a screech. Our hearing brain, Kraus tells us, is vast. It interacts with what we know, with our emotions, with how we think, with our movements, and with our other senses. Auditory neurons make calculations at one-thousandth of a second; hearing is the speediest of our senses. Sound plays an unrecognized role in both healthy and hurting brains. Kraus explores the power of music for healing as well as the destructive power of noise on the nervous system. She traces what happens in the brain when we speak another language, have a language disorder, experience rhythm, listen to birdsong, or suffer a concussion. Kraus shows how our engagement with sound leaves a fundamental imprint on who we are. The sounds of our lives shape our brains, for better and for worse, and help us build the sonic world we live in. Galina Limorenko is a doctoral candidate in Neuroscience with a focus on biochemistry and molecular biology of neurodegenerative diseases at EPFL in Switzerland. To discuss and propose the book for an interview you can reach her at galina.limorenko@epfl.ch. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/science

An estimated 55 million people around the world live with dementia, yet only a quarter have been formally diagnosed. How will technology improve diagnostic devices for the condition? Also, with better testing in place but few treatments available, we explore if healthcare systems can cope with this silent epidemic. And, author and professor, Nina Kraus explores how brains build a sound world. Kenneth Cukier hosts. For full access to The Economist's print, digital and audio editions subscribe at economist.com/podcastoffer and sign up for our weekly science newsletter at economist.com/simplyscience.Terms and conditions for the book competition featured in this podcast are available at economist.com/podcast-contest. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

An estimated 55 million people around the world live with dementia, yet only a quarter have been formally diagnosed. How will technology improve diagnostic devices for the condition? Also, with better testing in place but few treatments available, we explore if healthcare systems can cope with this silent epidemic. And, author and professor, Nina Kraus explores how brains build a sound world. Kenneth Cukier hosts. For full access to The Economist's print, digital and audio editions subscribe at economist.com/podcastoffer and sign up for our weekly science newsletter at economist.com/simplyscience.Terms and conditions for the book competition featured in this podcast are available at economist.com/podcast-contest. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Host Dave Schlom visits Northwestern University neuroscientist Nina Kraus to chat about her work on the science of sound and its importance to our brains.

Making sense of sound is one of the hardest jobs we ask our brains to do. In her book Of Sound Mind, Nina Kraus examines the partnership of sound and brain, showing for the first time that the processing of sound drives many of the brain's core functions. Our hearing is always on—we can't close our ears the way we close our eyes—and yet we can ignore sounds that are unimportant. We don't just hear; we engage with sounds. Kraus explores what goes on in our brains when we hear a word—or a chord, or a meow, or a screech.Sound plays an unrecognized role in both healthy and hurting brains. Kraus explores the power of music for healing as well as the destructive power of noise on the nervous system. She traces what happens in the brain when we speak another language, have a language disorder, experience rhythm, listen to birdsong, or suffer a concussion. Nina Kraus, Ph.D., is a scientist, inventor, and amateur musician who studies the biology of auditory learning. She began her career measuring responses from single auditory neurons and was one of the first to show that the adult nervous system has the potential for reorganization following learning; these insights in basic biology galvanized her to investigate auditory learning in humans.

Making sense of sound is one of the hardest jobs our brains must do. Our hearing is always on. We can't close our ears the way we close our eyes. And yet we are quite adept at ignoring sounds that are unimportant. Nina Kraus explores what is going on in our brains when we hear a word, a chord, a meow, or a screech, and examines the partnership of sound and brain, showing how the processing of sound drives many of the brain's core functions. Our hearing brain interacts with what we know, with our emotions, with how we think, with our movements, and with all our other senses. Auditory neurons make calculations at one-thousandth of a second. Hearing is the fastest of our senses. Sound also plays an unrecognized role in both healthy and hurting brains. Kraus explores the power of music for healing as well as the destructive power of noise on the nervous system. She traces what happens in the brain when we speak another language, have a language disorder, experience rhythm, listen to birdsong, or suffer a concussion. Join us as Kraus explores how our deep engagement with sound leaves a fundamental imprint on who we are. NOTES MLF: Humanities SPEAKERS Nina Kraus Hugh Knowles Professor of Neurobiology, Communication Sciences, and Otolaryngology, Northwestern University; Author, Of Sound Mind: How Our Brain Constructs a Meaningful Sonic World In Conversation with George Hammond Author, Conversations With Socrates In response to the COVID-19 pandemic, we are currently hosting all of our live programming via YouTube live stream. This program was recorded via video conference on October 7th, 2021 by the Commonwealth Club of California. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Making sense of sound is one of the hardest jobs our brains must do. Our hearing is always on. We can't close our ears the way we close our eyes. And yet we are quite adept at ignoring sounds that are unimportant. Nina Kraus explores what is going on in our brains when we hear a word, a chord, a meow, or a screech, and examines the partnership of sound and brain, showing how the processing of sound drives many of the brain's core functions. Our hearing brain interacts with what we know, with our emotions, with how we think, with our movements, and with all our other senses. Auditory neurons make calculations at one-thousandth of a second. Hearing is the fastest of our senses. Sound also plays an unrecognized role in both healthy and hurting brains. Kraus explores the power of music for healing as well as the destructive power of noise on the nervous system. She traces what happens in the brain when we speak another language, have a language disorder, experience rhythm, listen to birdsong, or suffer a concussion. Join us as Kraus explores how our deep engagement with sound leaves a fundamental imprint on who we are. NOTES MLF: Humanities SPEAKERS Nina Kraus Hugh Knowles Professor of Neurobiology, Communication Sciences, and Otolaryngology, Northwestern University; Author, Of Sound Mind: How Our Brain Constructs a Meaningful Sonic World In Conversation with George Hammond Author, Conversations With Socrates In response to the COVID-19 pandemic, we are currently hosting all of our live programming via YouTube live stream. This program was recorded via video conference on October 7th, 2021 by the Commonwealth Club of California. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Our colleagues at All Things Considered chatted with neuroscientist Nina Kraus about her new book Of Sound Mind. She shares how our brains process and create meaning from the sounds around us.

Nina Kraus, PhD, is director of the Brainvolts Lab at Northwestern University. She joins us today to discuss her decades of work exploring hearing and the brain. That research has led to her new book, "Of Sound Mind: How Our Brain Constructs a Meaningful Sonic World."

How does sound make us feel connected to our communities and the world around us? How can sound actually damage our brain? How do we create a sonic environment that promotes better health? What impact does playing music have on our brain and rate of success in life? Nina Kraus, the author of Of Sound Mind, joins us on the SuperAge podcast to answer these questions. Nina Kraus is a professor at Northwestern University investigating sound, speech, and music. In this episode, Nina and David tackle the fascinating topic of sound. They discuss how it can connect us to the world but could also damage our brains, how creating sound, or playing music, can lead to a more successful life, how we have the choice to curate a powerful sonic environment for better health, and more. What you will learn in this episode: How sound damages the brainHow sound benefits the brainHow making music leads to a healthier, more successful lifeHow we can curate our sonic environment for better health “Making music is one of the best things that we can do to strengthen our sound mind.”“Our hearing brain is vast as is our sound mind. Our sound mind engages how we feel, what we know about sound, how we move.” Listen to the SuperAge podcast wherever you get your pods. Connect with Nina Kraus: https://brainvolts.northwestern.edu Buy Nina's book, Of Sound Mind:https://mitpress.mit.edu/books/sound-mind

It can be hard enough to answer the question, "what kind of music do you like?" But how about "why do you like it?" That's one of the many questions about the human brain and sound that neuroscientist Nina Kraus set out to answer in her book Of Sound Mind. In this interview with NPR's Ari Shapiro, she breaks down the science behind what our brains do when they process sound, and how it differs for each of us.

NU Neurobiologist Dr. Nina Kraus talks sound and the brain on the pod this week: What is the sonic self? How does sound make you, affect you and potentially heal you? How is sound being applied to Parkinsons, Alzheimers, Mood Disorders and more? Join us as we discuss her newly released book, “Of Sound Mind: How Our Brain Constructs a Meaningful Sonic World”Helpful links:Dr. Nina Kraus - Neuroscientist who has done path breaking research on sound and hearing for more than thirty years, founder of Northwestern's Brainvolts - The Auditory Neuroscience Laboratory.Twitter: @brainvoltsInstagram: @brainvoltsnuFacebook: audNeuroLabNUYouTube: brainvoltsNUIsabelle Peretz - Specialist in the study of the "musical brain" Renee Fleming - An advocate for the study of the relationship between music and health, as well as the utility of music in neuroscience research. She serves as an Artistic Advisor of the Polyphony Foundation. Polyphony helps bridge divisions and foster a more civil society by bringing together Arab and Jewish children in Israel for the study and performance of classical music.Learn more about the Suzuki Method, A method that aims to provide and create an environment for learning musicAlive Inside: A Story of Music and Memory - A 2014 documentary exploring diseases that impair neurological function, such as Alzheimer's disease and dementia, and proposes a treatment option that is claimed to improve a patient's quality of life.Dr. Bernie Krause - an American musician and soundscape ecologist. Author of the book, “The Great Animal Orchestra: Finding the Origins of Music in the World's Wild Places”. Listen to his recordings here The Cornell Lab of Ornithology - joins with people from all walks of life to make new scientific discoveries, share insights, and galvanize conservation action.Find Rosebud Woman on Instagram as @rosebudwoman and Christine on Instagram as @the.rose.woman See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

To a large extent, we get to choose our sonic experiences. Dr. Kraus' new book explains what those choices mean for our brain and the interpersonal communication that is so critical to our human experience. Why is music the “jackpot” of the “sound mind,” giving musicians improved sound processing into old age – even if they haven't played since childhood? Links and notes related to this episode can be found at https://mpetersonmusic.com/podcast/episode112 Connect with us: Newsletter: https://mpetersonmusic.com/subscribe Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/EnhanceLifeMusic/ Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/enhancelifemusic/ LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/mpetersonpiano/ Twitter: https://twitter.com/musicenhances Sponsorship information: https://mpetersonmusic.com/podcast/sponsor Leave us a review on Podchaser.com! https://www.podchaser.com/podcasts/enhance-life-with-music-909096 In-episode promo: Songtrust https://www.songtrust.com/ (use code ENHANCELIFE20 for 20% off)

Nina Kraus, Ph.D., is a neuroscientist who has done groundbreaking research on sound and hearing for more than three decades. She's the Hugh Knowles Professor of Neurobiology, Communication Sciences, and Otolaryngology at Northwestern University, and she has been a frequent guest on Indre's other podcast, Cadence: What Music Tells Us About the Mind. Nina has just released her first trade book called “Of Sound Mind: How Our Brain Constructs a Meaningful Sonic World”. Today she joins Indre to explain just how important sound is, how the hearing brain engages how we think, feel, move, and incorporate information from our other senses, and why the “sound mind” is so integral to how we experience the world.   Show Links: “Of Sound Mind: How Our Brain Constructs a Meaningful Sonic World” by Nina Kraus Brainvolts Website https://brainvolts.northwestern.edu/ Inquiring Minds Podcast Homepage Support the show: https://www.patreon.com/inquiringminds Listen to the Cadence Podcast See https://omnystudio.com/policies/listener for privacy information.   Support the show: https://www.patreon.com/inquiringminds See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Making sense of sound is one of the most interesting and difficult things that our brain does constantly. So how does it work? And can you really have 'selective hearing' find out this and more on this week's episode. Expert guest:Nina Kraus, a neuroscientist who has done pathbreaking research on sound and hearing for more than thirty years, is Hugh Knowles Professor of Neurobiology, Communication Sciences, and Otolaryngology at Northwestern University. Her book, OF SOUND MIND: How Our Brain Constructs a Meaningful Sonic World comes out in September 2021 from MIT Press. You can learn more about the work her and her team do at the Brainvolts website as mentioned on the episode https://brainvolts.northwestern.edu/You can find out more about her book at https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/675902/of-sound-mind-by-nina-kraus/Comedic guest:Scott Curtis is a comedian with a mission to teach new comedians and inform comedy nerds about the intricacies of stand-up comedy. He started Behind the Bits Podcast as serious talk about stand-up comedy and interviews working comedians and industry experts every week to give his listeners nuggets of stand-up wisdom. Scott won the 2020 Discover Pods Award for Best Interview Style Podcast and hosts a wacky talk show called the BTB Internet Talk Show that is live-streamed every Thursday at 7PM EST on various platforms.Website:www.thebtbpc.comFacebook:https://www.facebook.com/behindthebitspodcastInstagram:https://www.instagram.com/behindthebitspodcast/Twitter:https://www.twitter.com/thebtbpcTwitch:https://www.twitch.tv/behindthebitsTikTok:https://www.tiktok.com/@behindthebits64 

Dr. Kraus talks about concussions, auditory processing disorders, and the efferent auditory system, and how audiologists can integrate neuroscience updates into treatment plans. Read the transcript here. Read the transcript here.

Drawing from her innovative work on the ear-brain connections, Nina Kraus, PhD, discusses how audiologists can use the frequency following response to measure the integrity of sound processing and improve overall hearing care. Read the transcript here.

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Nina Kraus, a professor of communication sciences, neurobiology, and physiology at Northwestern University in Chicago, has done a lot of research on the effect of playing music on processing sound, learning, and brain development. She explains the “musician’s advantage,” which includes better reading skills, and how music training can be a tool to improve the performance of students from low socio-economic backgrounds. *This episode was originally released on June 10, 2020.* Intro (00:01): Inventors and their inventions. Welcome to Radio Cade, a podcast from the Cade Museum for Creativity and Invention in Gainesville, Florida. The museum is named after James Robert Cade who invented Gatorade in 1965. My name is Richard Miles. We’ll introduce you to inventors and the things that motivate them. We’ll learn about their personal stories, how their inventions work, and how their ideas get from the laboratory to the marketplace. Richard Miles (00:39): The sound of music, not just a movie about seeing Austrians, but also a fertile field of research, specifically the effect of playing music on processing sound, learning, and brain development. I’m your host Richard Miles. Today my guest is Nina Kraus, a professor of communication, sciences, neurobiology, and physiology at Northwestern University in Chicago. Welcome to Radio Cade, Nina. Nina Kraus (01:02): I’m so glad to be here. Richard Miles (01:03): So Nina, you’re one of those difficult guests that you have done so much, and we could talk a lot, but then this would not be a 30 minute podcast, it would be like a 30 hour podcast, but I have heard you speak before, and I know you were actually quite good about summarizing your research so I know you’re up to the challenge, but I’d like to start out by focusing on one particular area of your work. You’ve done a lot in sound processing and how the brain processes sound, but why don’t we start with some basic definitions for our listeners. So from a scientific perspective or researchers perspective, what is the relationship or the difference, I guess, between music, noise, and language. What’s the relationship between those three things? Nina Kraus (01:41): What a great starting question. So sound is the common denominator for all the things that you mentioned and sound is a very under-recognized force in our society. It is very, very powerful, and yet we don’t pay very much attention to it because it’s invisible, first of all, like a lot of powerful forces like gravity. So you don’t think about it. And we live in a very visually biased world. And even scientifically there was a National Institute for Vision 13 years before there was one for hearing. And that was the National Institute for Deafness and Communication. We share that with smell and taste, but all of the things that you mentioned, language, and, music, and noise, these are all sounds. And I’m a biologist and I am interested in sound and the brain. And so really the overall umbrella over everything that we study is sound and brain. How do we make sense of sound? How is sound processed in the brain and how does our experience with sound shape how we perceive the world? Richard Miles (02:52): I saw on one of your papers, you have a specific way or methodology that you can actually look at brain as it is interpreting sound, right? Nina Kraus (03:01): Yeah. Let me tell you a little bit about that. Initially, as a biologist, I came into science studying single neurons, actually, single neurons with scalp electrodes and animal models and one of my first experiments was to play sound to an animal while I was recording the brain’s response, the one cell’s response, to that sound. This was a rabbit, a bunny rabbit, and we taught the rabbit that the sound had a meaning that every time the sound happened, he’d get some food. So the same sound, same neuron, but the neurons response to that sound changed. And so we could see firsthand learning, the biology of learning, and that’s something that I’m deeply interested in. My lab, which we call Brain Volts has been looking at how our experience with sound shapes our nervous system, but I was coming from the specificity of recording from individual cells. And so these are signals. These are tangible signals that you can really define, and that felt good. And so the question was, well, how can we get a way of measuring sound processing in the brain in humans when we can’t go sticking needles into individual cells? You know, there are many ways of recording the brain’s response to sound with scalp electrodes. And of course, as I’m talking to you, now, the nerves in your brain that respond to sound are producing electricity. And so with the scalp electrodes, we can pick up that electricity and that’s been done for a long, long time, but most of the measures that we can obtain from the scalp are rather blunt with respect to what I’m interested in, which is the different ingredients of sound. So sound consists, again let me make a visual object comparison. So with vision, everybody knows that a given object has a shape, a size, a color, a texture, that’s all very obvious, but people don’t realize, first of all, that there is sound and secondly, that sound also consists of ingredients like pitch, how high or low a tambour, a violin and a tuba sound different when they’re playing the same note, that’s tambour. The harmonics that differentiate one speech sound from another. There’s phase that tells us where objects are in space, based on the time of arrival of the sound to your two ears. And there’s a huge timing. So the auditory system is our fastest sense, even though light is faster than sound processing sound happens on the order of microseconds because there’s so much timing information in sound. That’s how sound works, it’s fleeting. And so, what I was interested, what I am interested in is how do we figure out how the brain makes sense of these different ingredients? And we figured out a way of doing this because most of the methods that were available to us in the past, you could just see is the response large, is the response fast to sound, but I want to know how does your brain respond specifically to pitch and timing and tambour and phase all these different ingredients. And so one of the metaphors that I like to use is a mixing board. So if you think about the faders on a mixing board and you think of all the different ingredients and sound, when they are transduced into the signals of the brain, which is electricity, it doesn’t work like a volume knob. People, even musicians, are not good at processing all the sounds like a volume knob. They have specific strengths and weaknesses like the faders on a mixing board and I wanted a biological approach that would be able to look at that, would be very, very precise, and not only be able to tell us well, what is the effect of playing a musical instrument for many years? What is the effect of speaking another language, but not only looking at these group differences, but what about individuals? I mean, my auditory brain is different from your auditory brain, we’re all individuals. And so would it be possible to actually have a physiologic response that reflected these ingredients, A-of-all, and B-of-all would not only reflect what happens with experience in groups of people, but even on an individual basis. And we have really figured this out. So this is a response called the ‘frequency following response’ the FFR, which we have adapted to our use and we are able to use very complex, sounds like speech and music and analyze the responses in a way to see how an individual processes these different ingredients. And we’ve spent a lot of time on the methodology. So we have two tutorials on the frequency following response, which really speaks about these responses in a lot of detail. We have a number of patents on what we’ve discovered in terms of how to measure these responses. So this is really something that has kept us busy. So on the one hand, it was really a quest to search for a biological approach, which I’m really happy with now. And then it is a matter of applying that biological approach. Partly it was synergistic because we wanted to see, well, is this approach actually yielding the kind of information we want through research. And so we’ve done a lot of research and now we can really have confidence that a person’s response to sound really does reflect how their brain processes the different ingredients, how it might’ve been affected by the songs we sing, the languages we speak, and even your brain health, because making sense of sound is one of the hardest jobs that we ask our brains to do. So you can imagine that if you get hit in the head, it will disrupt this very, very fine microsecond level processing, which is one of the areas that we’re interested in looking at is, is what happens with head injury, especially with concussion, sports induced concussion. And so again, we can do that as well. Richard Miles (08:56): So on your website, I think you have this great graphical representation of the frequency following response, right? Where you will play a snippet of almost anything, but let’s say a piece of music and in the brain of the person listening to it, you have almost a mirror image right, of that same frequency. And you can see differences in the ability of the person to process what they’re hearing. And so you found, and again, I may have this wrong, you found that musicians had several advantages in the way that you will play for them something say Beethoven’s Fifth Symphony and a musician will hear it differently than when you say musician, it’s someone who actually plays an instrument, right? Not just a music appreciator, or someone who plays an instrument. Those people process the sound differently than those people who are not trained in playing music. Is that correct? Nina Kraus (09:55): That’s exactly right. Because what is so beautiful about this biological approach is that the response we get from the brain, the electricity actually physically resembles the sound that was used to evoke it. This hardly ever happens in biological systems. I mean, usually you’re looking at something very abstract, like lipid levels, cholesterol levels, to give you some index of cardiovascular health. Then, to actually be able to say, Oh, well, people process sounds in a way that we can actually see with a certain transparency. So the transparency is, as you said, is such that we play a sound wave and you can see the sound wave and you can then deliver that sound, wave to a person and pick up the electricity that the sound wave generates. And then, you know, we’re all familiar with taking a sound wave and feeding it through a microphone, and then you can play it through a speaker. And then the same way, you can take an electrical response that you have recorded from the brain, it’s just an electrical response, and you can deliver that to a speaker and play it so we can both see and hear a person’s response to sound. And yes, in fact, we can see the people who regularly play an instrument, so I’m not talking about professional musicians. I’m just talking about people who regularly play a musical instrument, you know, as little as half an hour, twice a week on a regular basis. And one of the things that we’ve been able to find is that there really is a neural signature for the musician. So remember I said, that sound consisted of these ingredients like pitch and timing and tambour. And what we see as the musician strength is a strengthening of the harmonics in sound and of various timing ingredients. And it turns out that both the harmonics and the timing are not only important in music, but they also overlap with what you need for language. So you can imagine how if you are doing an activity that is strengthening your brain’s response to the harmonics, which not only are important for playing a musical instrument, the harmonics are what distinguish B’s and P’s, and D’s, and G’s from each other. So these are the same signals. They’re the same ingredients. They’re these beautiful signals outside the head and inside the head that we can see, how does experience shape how we perceive the world. So the musician signature really has a strengthening of harmonics and timing, which it turns out transfers to language abilities and language abilities, including things like reading and being able to hear speech in a noisy place like a classroom, being able to figure out what’s going on in a complex soundscape. So these are advantages that seem to come along with the brains increased stability, strengthened ability to process these particular ingredients of harmonics and timing and what we call FM sweeps, which are basically the simplest FM suites. It’s a change of frequency over time. It’s like a cat call, right? It’s a sweep up and down. And it turns out that speech sounds have very, very, very fast FM sweeps that distinguishes one consonant from another, that happened in a very, very short period of time. And so the brain’s ability to process these FM sweeps is something that we see as a strength in musicians, and is very much an important ingredient in language. Richard Miles (13:32): I find all of this fascinating Nina. I remember the one example that you gave you tested musician’s ability to, as you said, pick out a particular sound in a crowded room, and you compare that to non-musicians and that the musicians had this definitive ability to recognize a sound pattern and all that. And then of course, different types of syllables or consonant, they also had that ability. The only time I can ever do this, I’m not a musician is if we’re at a party, I can hear Phoebe’s voice in a crowded room, and then she said, well, yes, that’s because research has found that men interpret women’s voices like music. So finally, I have a researcher. You tell me, is that true or not? Nina Kraus (14:08): Well, I would say that you have had a lot of experience with Phoebe’s voice and so you’re sonic brain is tuned to that voice. And we say this, when, you know, you pick up the phone, your son calls you and you say, “Oh, it’s so good to hear the sound of your voice”, the years of the sound to meaning, sound to emotion connections that you’ve made with that voice even before you hear the particular words, you have this very strong connection to what you’ve learned. And so I think that’s why you can hear Phoebe so well. Richard Miles (14:41): Let’s talk some more about work that you have done, very interesting work, with something called The Harmony Project in Los Angeles. This is something, I think in 2014 was the research, and essentially you worked with an organization in Los Angeles, it was giving music lessons, I think mostly stringed instruments, right? They’re giving them lessons for a substantial amount of time and then you started tracking them doing assessments to see if there were other advantages, right, that translated not just the ability to play a given instrument, but also the ability to do other cognitive skills. Tell us a little bit more about that. Nina Kraus (15:14): So, we’re really fortunate as scientists, and also if you read about Brain Volts and what we care about in our lab. We really are interested in sound in the world and we’re less interested in creating an experiment in the lab where people come in and they are given a certain amount of training with sound. We’re really interested in what is the impact of playing a musical instrument in actual music programs that live in the world? Also, one of the questions that one often asks is, well, is it that the brains strengthened response in musicians is just something they were born with so that if you have a strength in a certain domain, you might be encouraged to pursue that activity. A way of, of trying to understand what the effect of experiences is to do a so-called longitudinal study. Let me tell you the long in longitudinal is no joke, because that means tracking the same individuals year after year after year. So, we had the opportunity to do this in Los Angeles in the gang reduction zones of LA. And also we had a companion project at the same time in the Chicago Public Schools, where we basically had the same experimental design, which consisted of you take two groups of people and you match them at the beginning of training, or before training has started, and you match them on age and sex and reading scores and IQ and everything that you can think of, and then one group gets music and another group gets something else and you track them over time. So you track them year after year. And we were able to do this in LA with elementary school kids, second, third, and fourth graders. So we did this over three years and then the project in Chicago was adolescents also in low income areas. We’ve tracked the adolescents from freshman year until they graduated as seniors. And what was important is that the individuals in the different groups were in the same classroom, same teachers, same socioeconomic areas. And we could see, well, what happens if one group gets music and another group gets something else? So what we were able to find was, first of all, we were very interested in, well, we already knew from cross sectional studies across the, about this musician signature that I told you about that musicians had strengthened responses to FM sweeps, to harmonics, to timing in speech. The musicians had these stronger responses, but we wanted to know, well, is this something that develops over time? And in both studies after a year of regular music making in LA, these were after-school programs five times a week. If you also include Saturday and in the Chicago public schools, it was actually within the school day so that they had an hour every day of music, just like you had an hour of English and Math and History. We’d measure sound processing in the brain using our biological approach at the beginning of the year. And then at again at the end of the year, and after a year in both studies, we found no change in the brain’s response to sound. And that’s what the data showed but we kept going. And so in both of the studies, what we found was that it takes a while to change the brain. And that’s a good thing. If your brain was changing in a fundamental way, every second, you’d be really confused, but you speak a certain language that has certain sound ingredients after a while. And it’s really after years of speaking of particular language, your brain automatically changes and changes in a way fundamental or your default experience of the world. I mean, even if you’re asleep and I’m measuring your brain’s response to sound, you will have this heightened response to certain sound ingredients, because it has just become a fundamental way of how you perceive the world. But this takes, while it really did take two years to see these changes. And at the same time, of course, we were interested well, are these kids doing better in school in various ways, in terms of literacy, for example, and being able to hear speech and noise. And in fact, again, we were able to, to track the changes in the brain with these gains in literacy, and in being able to hear, for example, speech in noise, Richard Miles (19:52): So Nina, it’s fairly common observation that the younger you are the easier it seems to do things like learn languages, foreign language, play instruments, and so on. Is there anything in your research or other people’s research that indicates are there definitive windows of neuroplasticity past which it’s not really worth it or the returns are so diminishing that every 10 hours of effort you put into it is really not going to get you much. Do you find that there’s a cutoff? Does it happen in elementary school or middle school? Or can you go on up through your twenties and still reasonably hope to take up an instrument or learn a foreign language and accomplish a very high degree of proficiency with it. Nina Kraus (20:28): Great question, the answer is no, there is no limit. Certainly the way that a young brain learns is different from an older brain, but we continue to learn until the day we die. And in fact, there’ve been very beautiful experiments in auditory learning in animal models where you can very easily and in a very precise way, regulate an animal’s experience at different ages and see how their brain responds to learning an auditory task. And there have been experiments showing that certainly animals will learn differently when they’re younger and when they’re older, but they will continue to learn until the end of their lives. And this is born out in human studies as well, specifically with music. So in our own experience, in the harmony project, the kids were elementary school kids, in high school, the kids just began their music instruction as freshmen. So what was kind of a tragedy for these kids? The fact that they really had had no music instruction of any kind before they were freshmen in high school, turned out to be from a scientific standpoint, very important, because we could see that certainly the kids who began their music training as adolescents had the same kinds of brain changes that we saw in the younger kids. Moreover, the number of labs have looked at learning in older people. And even if you’ve never played a musical instrument, your brain can change and you can continue to learn music, to learn new languages. And we have this very, very dynamic system, and I think we should embrace the differences in the way we learn at different ages, because as we’re older, we bring wisdom with us and we bring an understanding of what we’re doing that is very different from the way a child might approach learning, for example, a musical instrument. But the fact is that the benefits of playing a musical instrument, which are profound, really in terms of memory and attention and emotion, sociability, these are gifts from music that you want to experience throughout your life. Richard Miles (22:41): If we could just stay on that just a little bit more Nina, one of the fascinating things I saw in one of your papers was the connection of musical ability or music training to reading, and that you expected to find obviously, a connection to speaking, cause that’s sort of an auditory sound function, right? But reading, and I didn’t realize the extent to which a solid understanding of how a word sounds, how are phoning sounds is essential to reading a written word. So comment on that, but there’s a second part of my question. Let me put it in right now, what are the other cognitive things that you have found that improve? I mean, is there a link with math, for instance, do you increase math abilities among musicians? Are there any other cognitive things that appear to be improved or beneficial as a result of music training? Nina Kraus (23:24): So your first question is what does sound have to do with reading? And we learned to speak first and what we need to do when we read is we have to associate the sound of the letters with a symbol on the page. And so, we’ve known from decades of research that kids who have difficulty processing sounds have difficulty reading. So there is a very, very strong connection there. Also there’s a part of speech. When you think of music, you know that there’s rhythm in music, right? Rhythm is a part of music, but you don’t necessarily think about rhythm as being a part of speech. But it is. I mean, think of the difference between the word rebel and rebel. It’s the same word, but I have a different rhythm. And even though the rhythm isn’t as regular, we have tremendous rhythmic ability in speaking. So every Martin Luther King day, my husband and I listened to the, I have a dream speech and listening to Dr. King speak, it has this wonderful rhythm and cadence to it. And if I was saying those same words to you, you’d be looking at your watch, you’d be, when is this going to be over? But so much of the communication is rhythmic. If you want to have fun, do some YouTube searches for rhythm and music. And you’ll find there’s a guy who plays drums along with while people are speaking, it really pulls out what is not so inherently obvious. But after awhile you realize, Oh, this is really rhythmic. So this is another thing that gets strengthened. If you make music, you really make abilities get better. And the reason that we know that this is tied to reading is that again, for decades now, people have demonstrated that kids who have difficulty reading have difficulty with rhythm. Rhythm is one part of what gets strengthened with music. And I would say that it’s the rhythm, and it is the tuning, if you will, of important sound ingredients that together help achieve the gains, which is now the second part of your question, which is why do we care? And well we care because we want to know what to pay attention to. And in order to learn, we have to be able to pay attention to sounds. So, for example, my husband’s a real musician. And one day I was trying to learn a dire straits lead on the guitar and he came by and he said, Nina, if you just listen, you would realize that Mark Knopfler is not using his pick on the string each time. He’s not going to Dee Dee Dee Dee. The reason that he’s playing those notes so fast is because he’s actually pulling off the string with the fingers of his left hand, it’s called a pull off. And it has a very special sound to it, that I was deaf to. But now I know what that sounds like. And so when I hear it again, I have learned what to pay attention to. And it’s kind of automatic like, Oh yeah, I know what this is. And so there are so many associations with sound and our ability to pay attention and to then be able to pay attention to other sounds in the world that might be important, like a teacher’s voice or Phoebe’s voice across the room. So that’s one thing. The other is auditory working memory, in order for you to make sense of what I’m saying right now, you need to remember what I just said. So a typical auditory working memory test language is I’ll give you a list of words and then ask you to repeat back only the words that were names of cars that started with M. And so you think, okay, so what did she say? Which ones are cars, which ones start with M. And this is your auditory working memory that is kind of helping you make sense of what you hear constantly. So it’s very, very important. So on the test like this people who are musicians, someone who regularly plays a musical instrument, by the way, singing counts, then across the lifespan, people who are musicians have stronger auditory working memory skills and stronger attention skills, and any teacher will tell you. And one of the reasons this was interesting to me is that teachers will tell me all the time that the kids who play music are the ones who do better in school. Richard Miles (27:33): Nina, you alluded to this earlier, you talked about Brain Volts, which is essentially, you’re looking at ways to take this research that you’re doing or the findings, and basically help others in other fields. And if I understand it correctly, you can use this in addition to research, but also as a diagnostic tool, right? If you find somebody and it appears to be their audio processing capabilities off, that may be an indicator of something else, such as a concussion or maybe dementia or something like that. I’m not entirely sure about that. So I’m waiting for you to correct me, but is that what it is? And then how’s it gone in terms of setting up something to try to commercialize the technology. And this is something we talk on this podcast, a lot, a lot of people like you, researchers have something that they know has a value outside of the research arena, and they want to take that technology to market. And it’s very difficult. So it’s kind of hit or miss. And we know for the genesis of this particular podcast, the museum project was Gatorade, a research project with great success, but isn’t a tiny minority of what happens to typical research. So first of all, correct me, or affirm me that I have that description of your business model, correct. And then how’s it going in terms of going to market? Nina Kraus (28:43): So I think the two areas that we have been focusing on, one is language and literacy. And yes, the idea is to use this biomarker, if you will, as a way to provide additional information about a kid who might be having difficulty in school or is having various problems with language and learning. And the question is, is this coming from the fact that his brain is not processing sounds in a typical way? And to be able to at any age, just deliver sounds and just use some scalp electrodes to get this piece of information is very valuable. And people talk about diagnosis. I wouldn’t say that this would be the only thing that you would look at. Any clinician wants to have an armamentarium of clinical results. You go to your physician and he’s looking at all of your various test results, and hopefully he can put together this constellation of findings and be well-informed. Well, I think at being well-informed, if you have a kid with a learning problem, when a language delay, if it was my kid, I would want to know, is there a bottleneck? Is there a problem here with sound processing? I would also want to know is my kid at risk? So I can envision this as now they have newborn hearing screenings where every child gets a hearing test to make sure that they can actually detect the sounds. I could envision the kind of technology that we’ve developed as being something that would be side by side with that. And you would also be able to see is my child at risk for struggling to learn language or struggling to learn, to read way before he actually begins to struggle in school. Wouldn’t it be great to just know that this is a child who is at risk. And so there are various things that can be done, especially if you are aware of a potential problem early on Richard Miles (30:39): Nina, just to clarify, going back to your analogy of the sound volume knob versus the mixing board the tests are doing now, essentially just measuring the sound knob, right? Can they hear or not? And your test would give the ability to say, well specifically, are there things going on at the auditory processing level that bear watching or concern? Is that? Nina Kraus (30:58): Yeah, I mean the typical hearing test now is really, can you hear, there’s a range of pitches that language consists of, and can you hear very, very quiet sounds and your ears ability to hear what I am measuring more is the brain’s ability to understand what you hear. And so the sounds that we deliver, aren’t very quiet, they’re conversational level. So we already know that they can hear their ears are working fine. They’ve passed the hearing test from an ear perspective, but we want to know now, if I’m speaking conversationally, I know that you can hear me, does your brain process these different ingredients properly or not? And what are the strengths and what are the bottlenecks? And we know that there are certain signatures, and this is again, one of the things that we have patents on is that we know that there is a certain signature that’s associated with a language delay and literacy problems. And so you would want to look for that particular signature in a child that you were wondering about in terms of their current or their future language potential. Richard Miles (32:02): Could you use it to detect mild concussions? For instance, if there is neurological damage and traditional tests, weren’t willing indicating one way or another, is this another tool that you could use to figure out something is wrong here? Nina Kraus (32:14): Absolutely. Because most concussions, unless you have a cerebral bleed, you’re not going to see them on imaging. You need a very sensitive measure and sound processing. The brain does provide that. It’s also noninvasive. It takes 15 minutes to obtain and we have found again and again, we have papers and patents that describe that we’ve established this effect in youngsters who are elementary and high school aged kids. And right now we have a big study looking at division one athletes or northwestern athletes and NIH study, it’s a five year project. That was won on the strength of the original work that we did describing what is now a different neural signature. It doesn’t look anything like the language signature. There are other ingredients that are especially sensitive to head injury. And we can see this right now. I know that the whole issue of diagnosing concussion is a tricky one. And again, historically, people have been looking at vision. They’ve been looking at balance, but looking at hearing is fairly new. And one of the things that we have done in a couple of our studies is we followed our North Side Football League. These are our kids, and we gave them the vision test, the balance tests and the hearing tests. And you could see that they each tell us different things. So they’re not redundant. So you know how wonderful my vision is for a clinician, a trainer, a coach, position, to be able to look at balance, look at vision, look at hearing, and to have this biological marker that would inform the diagnosis of the injury and also inform return to play, because we know that concussions often occur in the same person shortly after they’ve had a concussion. And so, it might be that with the current measures that we have available, it looks as though the athlete is ready to return to play. But maybe if you had a more sensitive measure and objective measure, because again, the athletes are very motivated to do whatever they can to get back on the field. But if you have an objective measure that doesn’t require any kind of an overt response, wouldn’t it be great to know? Let’s just wait another week. His brain isn’t quite ready, just to wait a week or two. I mean, we see that the changes in the brain change very rapidly, usually as individuals, athletes, recover from their concussions. Richard Miles (34:44): Nina, I know you have a lab there where you can assess people with that method. Is this something that could be done with a medical device? It could be done in a doctor’s office or even in a trainer’s room? Nina Kraus (34:54): That’s what we do. When we went out to LA, we did this testing in instrument closets, and wherever we could find a spot, it’s very portable right now. It’s the size of a laptop. Richard Miles (35:04): Nina, this has been fascinating. And like I said, this could be episode one of a thirty podcast series on just sounds. I could listen to this all day and I’ll go meta for just one second here. We’re actually doing this in the medium of podcasting, right, that has made a huge resurgence as people like to listen now. And I don’t know what that says about humans or our society in general, but it is a throwback to the days of the thirties and forties, right? When people consumed a lot of their entertainment from radio shows. Right? And what I like about it forced a little bit of your imagination, and play, because it’s not laid out for you visually, you’re listening to somebody sound or a sound clip of a particular event. And anyway, I thought I’d throw that in there. We’re talking about sound on a medium that is only sound. Nina Kraus (35:44): I love that. I love that. And actually I have to say for myself, I do a lot of my reading, listening to audio books. I think we all spend probably too much time looking at screens. And it’s just wonderful to kind of give your eyes a rest and listen. Of course I love radio and podcasts and I consume books that way. Sound is awesome. Richard Miles (36:05): Nina, thank you very much today for being on Radio Cade, hope to have you back maybe with an update on Brain Volts or your new research. Thank you very much for joining us today. Nina Kraus (36:13): Thank you for having me take care of Richard. Bye. Outro (36:18): Radio Cade is produced by the Cade Museum for Creativity and Invention located in Gainesville, Florida. Richard Miles is the podcast host and Ellie Thom coordinates inventor interviews, podcasts are recorded at Heartwood Soundstage and edited and mixed by Bob McPeek. The Radio Cade theme song was produced and performed by Tracy Collins and features violinist Jacob Lawson.

Nina Kraus, a professor of communication sciences, neurobiology, and physiology at Northwestern University in Chicago, has done a lot of research on the effect of playing music on processing sound, learning, and brain development.  She explains the “musician’s advantage,” which includes better reading skills, and how music training can be a tool to improve the performance of students from low socio-economic backgrounds.  *This episode is a re-release.*

Dr. Kraus is Hugh Knowles Professor of Communication Sciences, Neurobiology, and Otolaryngology at Northwestern University. She is a scientist, inventor (holder of several patents), and amateur musician who uses hearing as a window into brain health. She began her career measuring responses from single auditory neurons and was one of the first to show that the adult nervous system has the potential for reorganization with learning; these insights in basic biology galvanized her to investigate sound processing in the brain in humans. Through a series of innovative studies involving thousands of research participants from birth to age 90, her research has found that our lives in sound, and our experiences, for better (musicians, bilinguals) and for worse (concussion, language disorders, noise), shape how our brain makes sense of the sounds we hear. Using the principles of neuroscience to improve human communication, she advocates for best practices in education, health, and social policy. The Question of the Week is, "How does music affect the human brain?" Dr. Kraus and I discuss her journey and how she came to be researching sound and the brain, the role sound plays in our everyday lives, why making music is the healthiest thing you can do for your brain, the similarities between meditation and making music, and why silence is just as important as sound. If you would like to learn more about Dr. Kraus and her research, please visit www.brainvolts.northwestern.edu  

Nina Kraus, a professor of communication sciences, neurobiology, and physiology at Northwestern University in Chicago, has done a lot of research on the effect of playing music on processing sound, learning, and brain development. She explains the “musician’s advantage,” which includes better reading skills, and how music training can be a tool to improve the performance of students from low socio-economic backgrounds.

“Making sense of sound is a biological triumph,” says Nina Kraus, professor at Northwestern University and a specialist in the biology of auditory learning. “What’s auditory learning?” you may well ask Nina. Well, you could boil it down to a simple question: how is it that we humans are able to make sense of sound and all the noise? This episode of Bang & Olufsen’s Sound Matters podcast goes for a deep sonic dive into evolution, music, language and the whirlpool of noise we are immersed in every moment of our days – all to find out just how we manage to separate signal from noise.

Brain research shows that musicians’ training increases their sensitivity to the emotion in all sounds – a highly useful skill in personal, business, and academic relationships. Dr. Kraus finds that “sound processing is biologically intertwined with listening and language skills,” and says, “Probably the healthiest thing we can do for our brains is to make music.” Links and notes related to this episode can be found at https://mpetersonmusic.com/podcast/episode27   Facebook Page Instagram LinkedIn

When we read about college and youth sports today, it's usually about the dangers to health - mainly, concussions. However, a new study led by Nina Kraus, PhD, director of Northwestern's Auditory Neuroscience Laboratory, BrainVolts, has found that athletes have healthier brains than non-athletes. 

Dr. Nina Kraus is a professor of neurobiology at Northwestern University where she directs the Auditory Neuroscience Laboratory, also known as Brainvolts. She has made the study of how we biologically process sound her life's work. She and the Brainvolts' team have conducted long-term, multi-year studies looking at the brainwaves of children and found that making music—whether with instrument or voice—actually makes biological changes to the way the brain processes sound which, in turn, strengthens the ability of the brain to better apprehend the depth and breadth of language and speech. Simply put, creating music builds our capacity to turn sound into meaning. Nina is passionate about sound—she remembers as a child sitting under her mother's piano as she played. She brings that same sense of wonder and excitement to her rigorous biological research, and you'll hear it throughout the podcast…which is a perfect way to explore the way we process sound.

Dr. Nina Kraus is a professor of neurobiology at Northwestern University where she directs the Auditory Neuroscience Laboratory, also known as Brainvolts. She has made the study of how we biologically process sound her life’s work. She and the Brainvolts’ team have conducted long-term, multi-year studies looking at the brainwaves of children and found that making music—whether with instrument or voice—actually makes biological changes to the way the brain processes sound which, in turn, strengthens the ability of the brain to better apprehend the depth and breadth of language and speech. Simply put, creating music builds our capacity to turn sound into meaning. Nina is passionate about sound—she remembers as a child sitting under her mother’s piano as she played. She brings that same sense of wonder and excitement to her rigorous biological research, and you’ll hear it throughout the podcast…which is a perfect way to explore the way we process sound.

Dr. Nina Kraus is a professor of neurobiology at Northwestern University where she directs the Auditory Neuroscience Laboratory, also known as Brainvolts. She has made the study of how we biologically process sound her life’s work. She and the Brainvolts’ team have conducted long-term, multi-year studies looking at the brainwaves of children and found that making music—whether with instrument or voice—actually makes biological changes to the way the brain processes sound which, in turn, strengthens the ability of the brain to better apprehend the depth and breadth of language and speech. Simply put, creating music builds our capacity to turn sound into meaning. Nina is passionate about sound—she remembers as a child sitting under her mother’s piano as she played. She brings that same sense of wonder and excitement to her rigorous biological research, and you’ll hear it throughout the podcast…which is a perfect way to explore the way we process sound.

Dr. Nina Kraus is a professor of neurobiology at Northwestern University where she directs the Auditory Neuroscience Laboratory, also known as Brainvolts. She has made the study of how we biologically process sound her life’s work. She and the Brainvolts’ team have conducted long-term, multi-year studies looking at the brainwaves of children and found that making music—whether with instrument or voice—actually makes biological changes to the way the brain processes sound which, in turn, strengthens the ability of the brain to better apprehend the depth and breadth of language and speech. Simply put, creating music builds our capacity to turn sound into meaning. Nina is passionate about sound—she remembers as a child sitting under her mother’s piano as she played. She brings that same sense of wonder and excitement to her rigorous biological research, and you’ll hear it throughout the podcast…which is a perfect way to explore the way we process sound.

To make sense of sound, there is a wide activation of sensorimotor, cognitive, and reward circuitry in the brain. Active and repeated engagement with sounds that activate all these circuits, therefore, is a route to honing our brain function. Playing music is like hitting the jackpot for the brain because it requires the motor system, deeply engages our emotions, and absolutely gives us a cognitive workout. We have employed a biological approach, the frequency-following response (FFR), to reveal the integrity of sound processing in the brain and how these brain processes are shaped by music training. We have found that music works in synergistic partnerships with language skills and the ability to make sense of speech in noisy, everyday listening environments. We have found that music brings about a “speeding” of auditory system development, and a tendency toward a reversal of the biological impact of poverty-induced linguistic deprivation. The generalization from music to everyday communication illustrates both that these auditory brain mechanisms have a profound potential for plasticity and that sound processing is biologically intertwined with listening and language skills. In much the same way as music benefits sound processing in the brain, concussion brings about sound processing dysfunction, pointing to a role for auditory function assessment in the management of concussion. Together, these findings also have the potential to inform health care, education, and social policy by lending a neurobiological perspective to music education and the management of concussion.

For our October Narrative Medicine Rounds, we welcome Nina Kraus, PhD, who is the Hugh Knowles Professor of Communication Sciences, Neurobiology and Otolaryngologyat Northwestern University. Her talk will center on the ways sound processing in the brain is a reflection of brain health. "How our brains respond to sound reveals each person's unique narrative of their life experiences," says Dr. Kraus. "We have discovered a way to objectively capture the imprint that sounds leave on our brains." Dr. Kraus, who is a scientist, inventor and amateur musician, will examine the promise of measuring these sound-prints to assess and manage sports-related concussions as well as the many ways music training is beneficial for the brain, strengthens our communication skills and can inform healthcare, education and social policy. For more information about Nina Kraus’s work and the Auditory Neuroscience Laboratory, go to www.brainvolts.northwestern.edu

I always was intrigued on how our brain works thru music. What make us inclined to play or listen to music or how beneficial was musical education on us.Dr. Kraus and her project and research goes beyond these queries. Her background as a biologist and researcher has made us look differently new ways of looking at music/sound and how it might help or improve our behavior and our lifestyles. As I read Dr. Kraus curriculum vitae and publications, I knew from the beginning that this episode would be very hard to do. I did this recording a Saturday in the afternoon after having done 2 previous recordings in different places and I want to thank Dr. Nina Kraus for accepting my invitation, sitting with us and explained to us how sound works in our brain. To learn more about my podcast, you can follow me on Twitter @Music2Flavors and Facebook https://www.facebook.com/Musicin2Flavors/, or at my website at www.musicin2flavors.com If you know a friend or acquaintance that works in the music industry and think that he should be an ideal person to chat and record his conversation, please contact me at Music in 2Flavors@gmail.com Thank you for listening and see you on our next episode in Spanish with a great musician from Buenos Aires, Argentina living in Maryland. If you would like to be a patreon of my podcast, you can go to my website and click on the Patreon banner or visit https://www.patreon.com/musicin2Flavors where you can choose the amount of money that you want to pledge. Thank you for listening to Music in 2Flavors and thank you for being a loyal listener of my music adventure.

I always was intrigued on how our brain works thru music. What make us inclined to play or listen to music or how beneficial was musical education on us.Dr. Kraus and her project and research goes beyond these queries. Her background as a biologist and researcher has made us look differently new ways of looking at music/sound and how it might help or improve our behavior and our lifestyles. As I read Dr. Kraus curriculum vitae and publications, I knew from the beginning that this episode would be very hard to do. I did this recording a Saturday in the afternoon after having done 2 previous recordings in different places and I want to thank Dr. Nina Kraus for accepting my invitation, sitting with us and explained to us how sound works in our brain. To learn more about my podcast, you can follow me on Twitter @Music2Flavors and Facebook https://www.facebook.com/Musicin2Flavors/, or at my website at www.musicin2flavors.com If you know a friend or acquaintance that works in the music industry and think that he should be an ideal person to chat and record his conversation, please contact me at Music in 2Flavors@gmail.com Thank you for listening and see you on our next episode in Spanish with a great musician from Buenos Aires, Argentina living in Maryland. If you would like to be a patreon of my podcast, you can go to my website and click on the Patreon banner or visit https://www.patreon.com/musicin2Flavors where you can choose the amount of money that you want to pledge. Thank you for listening to Music in 2Flavors and thank you for being a loyal listener of my music adventure.

It takes years to train your ears - but not necessarily a music degree. Auditory neuroscientist Nina Kraus tells us how musicians listen and therefore hear differently with training. Orchestral conductor Eric Dudley explains that the secret to getting an orchestra to sync up is teaching them to listen and ukulele player and comedic musician Molly Lewis demonstrates how she taught herself to become a musician by listening better.

You often hear people say that music is good for your brain because it's the only activity that uses all of it. That's not true. And the truth is actually much more interesting. In this episode, we talk to auditory neuroscientist Nina Kraus, who explains how musical training changes what we hear, or, more specifically, how we listen.

THE FACTS: Surprisingly Awesome’s Theme Music is “This is How We Do” by Nicholas Britell and our ad music is by Build Buildings. We were edited this week by Annie-Rose Strasser, Alex Blumberg, and produced by Rachel Ward, Christine Driscoll and Elizabeth Kulas. We were mixed by Andrew Dunn. Austin Thompson mixed Matthew Boll’s music. Thank you to Joe Staples. Jacob Cruz, Emma Jacobs, Tiffany Lee, Rikki Novetsky, Elah Feder, Melanie Kruvelis, and Jacqui Helbert provided production assistance. LEARN MORE: If you want to hear more from Tim Manley, look for his web series “The Feels,” and check out his storytelling at The Moth. Dr. Nina Kraus at Northwestern University sent us the Smoke on the Water music – you can learn more about her lab at www.brainvolts.northwestern.edu. You can hear more of Matthew Boll at americanvacation.org and follow him on Twitter @bigbearii. OUR SPONSORS: Frank & Oak – Go to frankandoak.com/awesome to get your first outfit for $79 (a pair of pants and a shirt). Lenovo – See how Lenovo is revolutionizing data center technology. Wealthsimple – Investing made easy. Get your first $10,000 managed for free.

Nina Kraus, profesora de neurobiología en la Universidad de Northwestern, junto a un equipo de investigadores, lleva años dedicada al estudio de la biología del procesamiento auditivo y cómo la plasticidad del cerebro le permite adaptarse y aprender durante la vida. Entre sus hallazgos capitales está el cómo la experiencia modela al cerebro que oye, bien sea en un sentido positivo (a través del aprendizaje musical) o en uno negativo, salvo raras excepciones (pobreza socioeconómica). Estos cambios en el cerebro a través del tiempo tienen profundo impacto en el aprendizaje y la comunicación.

Nina Kraus, Ph.D., is a scientist, inventor, and amateur musician who studies the biology of auditory learning. She began her career measuring responses from single auditory neurons and was one of the first to show that the adult nervous system has the potential for reorganization following learning; these insights in basic biology galvanized her to investigate auditory learning in humans.Through a series of innovative studies involving thousands of research participants from birth to age 90, her research has found that our lives in sound, for better (musicians, bilinguals) or worse (language disorders, concussion, aging, hearing loss), shape auditory processing. She continues to conduct parallel experiments in animal models to elucidate the mechanisms underlying these phenomena.Never having accepted a lack of technology as a roadblock to scientific discovery, Kraus has invented new ways to measure the biology of sound processing in humans that provide unprecedented precision and granularity in indexing brain function. With her technological innovations she is now pushing science beyond the traditional laboratory by conducting studies in schools, community centers, and clinics.Using the principles of neuroscience to improve human communication, she advocates for best practices in education, health, and social policy.Nina's new book “Of Sound Mind: How Our Brain Constructs a Meaningful Sonic World” is available from Amazon and other resellers. About the book:Making sense of sound is one of the hardest jobs we ask our brains to do. In Of Sound Mind, Nina Kraus examines the partnership of sound and brain, showing for the first time that the processing of sound drives many of the brain's core functions. Our hearing is always on--we can't close our ears the way we close our eyes--and yet we can ignore sounds that are unimportant. We don't just hear; we engage with sounds. Kraus explores what goes on in our brains when we hear a word--or a chord, or a meow, or a screech.Our hearing brain, Kraus tells us, is vast. It interacts with what we know, with our emotions, with how we think, with our movements, and with our other senses. Auditory neurons make calculations at one-thousandth of a second; hearing is the speediest of our senses. Sound plays an unrecognized role in both healthy and hurting brains. Kraus explores the power of music for healing as well as the destructive power of noise on the nervous system. She traces what happens in the brain when we speak another language, have a language disorder, experience rhythm, listen to birdsong, or suffer a concussion. Kraus shows how our engagement with sound leaves a fundamental imprint on who we are. The sounds of our lives shape our brains, for better and for worse, and help us build the sonic world we live in.Check out Brainvolts for articles on how sound shapes our world:https://brainvolts.northwestern.edu/Check out Light Me At 5:https://open.spotify.com/show/1sP1vjrRrMh34Cbq9j9r11?si=98f1f17ac13e4704If you'd like to support the show and get some cool perks, check out our Patreon page:https://www.patreon.com/btbpcLook for new stuff for Patrons soon!Head over to the Behind the Bits website for extra content:https://www.thebtbpc.com/Get on our mailing list for news about future guests and more great content:https://www.thebtbpc.com/p/mailing-list/Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brandsPrivacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

I always was intrigued on how our brain works thru music. What make us inclined to play or listen to music or how beneficial was musical education on us.Dr. Kraus and her project and research goes beyond these queries. Her background as a biologist and researcher has made us look differently new ways of looking at music/sound and how it might help or improve our behavior and our lifestyles. As I read Dr. Kraus curriculum vitae and publications, I knew from the beginni

2017 wird es 100 Jahre her sein, dass in der sogenannten Oktoberrevolution in Russland erstmals eine kommunistische Bewegung die staatliche Macht übernahm. Gemeinsam mit dem Deutschen Historischen Museum lud die Bundesstiftung Aufarbeitung Vertreterinnen und Vertreter von Museen, Aufarbeitungsinstitutionen, Wissenschaft und Medien zu einem Workshop ein, um Projekte zum Jahrestag vorzustellen und anzuregen. Im zweiten Teil des Workshop folgten weitere Projektpräsentationen. Lena Ens von der Bundesstiftung Aufarbeitung stellte zunächst das Projekt "Erinnerungsorte an den Kommunismus" vor. Danach sprachen Dr. Jure Gasparic vom Slowenischen Institut für Zeitgeschichte sowie Nina Kraus und Klara Schwalbe von der International Students of History Association. Weitere Projekte wurden vorgestellt durch den Verein Gegen Vergessen-Für Demokratie, vertreten durch Ruth Wunnicke, die Volkshochschule München, vertreten durch Dr. Robert Mucha, sowie die Arbeitsgruppe Nordhessen-Südniedersachsen von Gegen Vergessen-Für Demokratie e.V., vertreten durch Ernst Klein Zum Abschluss der Veranstaltung präsentierten Bernd Buder vom Filmfestival Cottbus, Dr. Regina Bouchehri von Looksfilm TV sowie die Film- und Videoproduzenten Loretta Walz und Gerald Grote sowie Claus Oppermann ihre Projekte.

2017 wird es 100 Jahre her sein, dass in der sogenannten Oktoberrevolution in Russland erstmals eine kommunistische Bewegung die staatliche Macht übernahm. Gemeinsam mit dem Deutschen Historischen Museum lud die Bundesstiftung Aufarbeitung Vertreterinnen und Vertreter von Museen, Aufarbeitungsinstitutionen, Wissenschaft und Medien zu einem Workshop ein, um Projekte zum Jahrestag vorzustellen und anzuregen. Im zweiten Teil des Workshop folgten weitere Projektpräsentationen. Lena Ens von der Bundesstiftung Aufarbeitung stellte zunächst das Projekt "Erinnerungsorte an den Kommunismus" vor. Danach sprachen Dr. Jure Gasparic vom Slowenischen Institut für Zeitgeschichte sowie Nina Kraus und Klara Schwalbe von der International Students of History Association. Weitere Projekte wurden vorgestellt durch den Verein Gegen Vergessen-Für Demokratie, vertreten durch Ruth Wunnicke, die Volkshochschule München, vertreten durch Dr. Robert Mucha, sowie die Arbeitsgruppe Nordhessen-Südniedersachsen von Gegen Vergessen-Für Demokratie e.V., vertreten durch Ernst Klein Zum Abschluss der Veranstaltung präsentierten Bernd Buder vom Filmfestival Cottbus, Dr. Regina Bouchehri von Looksfilm TV sowie die Film- und Videoproduzenten Loretta Walz und Gerald Grote sowie Claus Oppermann ihre Projekte.