Nina Kraus Talks about Sound and the Brain (BS 192)

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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.

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Links and References:

  • Of Sound Mind: How Our Brain Constructs a Meaningful Sonic World by Nina Kraus

  • Nina Kraus, PhD, Northwestern University

  • Coffey EBJ, Nicol T, White-Schwoch T, Chandrasekaran B, Krizman J, Skoe E, Zatorre RJ, Kraus N. Evolving perspectives on the sources of the frequency-following response. Nat Commun. 2019 Nov 6;10(1):5036. doi: 10.1038/s41467-019-13003-w. PMID: 31695046; PMCID: PMC6834633.

  • Kraus N. Memory for sound: The BEAMS Hypothesis [Perspective]. Hear Res. 2021 Aug;407:108291. doi: 10.1016/j.heares.2021.108291. Epub 2021 Jun 6. PMID: 34146833. Free PDF

  • See episode transcript for additional links and references

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