Nina Kraus
Nina Kraus is a professor at Northwestern University, investigating the neural encoding of speech and music and its plasticity where she is the Hugh S. Knowles Chair.[1]
Her Auditory Neuroscience Lab, also known as Brainvolts, examines the biological processing of sound throughout the life span, how it is disrupted in clinical populations (language disorders; concussion), and how it reacts to differing levels of expertise (music; bilingualism). Her work has shown that the hearing brain is vast—engaging our cognitive, sensory, motor, and reward networks. This perspective is illustrated in her book Of Sound Mind: How Our Brain Constructs a Meaningful Sonic World.[2] Investigations are aimed at improving human communication. Kraus’ work is rooted in a desire to bring scientific understanding into educational and clinical settings.
Book
- Kraus, N. (2021). Of Sound Mind: How Our Brain Constructs a Meaningful Sonic World. MIT Press.
References
External links
- Brainvolts Lab website
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- Biomusicology
- Cognitive musicology
- Cognitive neuroscience of music
- Culture in music cognition
- Evolutionary musicology
- Psychoacoustics
- Absolute pitch
- Auditory illusion
- Auditory imagery
- Background music
- Consonance and dissonance
- Deutsch's scale illusion
- Earworm
- Embodied music cognition
- Entrainment
- Exercise and music
- Eye movement in music reading
- Franssen effect
- Generative theory of tonal music
- Glissando illusion
- Hedonic music consumption model
- Illusory continuity of tones
- Levitin effect
- Lipps–Meyer law
- Melodic expectation
- Melodic fission
- Mozart effect
- Music and emotion
- Music and movement
- Music in psychological operations
- Music preference
- Music-related memory
- Musical gesture
- Musical semantics
- Musical syntax
- Octave illusion
- Relative pitch
- Sharawadji effect
- Shepard tone
- Speech-to-song illusion
- Temporal dynamics of music and language
- Tonal memory
- Tritone paradox
- Aesthetics of music
- Bioacoustics
- Ethnomusicology
- Hearing
- Melodic intonation therapy
- Music education
- Music therapy
- Musical acoustics
- Musicology
- Neurologic music therapy
- Neuronal encoding of sound
- Performance science
- Philosophy of music
- Psychoanalysis and music
- Sociomusicology
- Systematic musicology
- Zoomusicology
- Jamshed Bharucha
- Lola Cuddy
- Robert Cutietta
- Jane W. Davidson
- Irène Deliège
- Diana Deutsch
- Tuomas Eerola
- Henkjan Honing
- David Huron
- Nina Kraus
- Carol L. Krumhansl
- Fred Lerdahl
- Daniel Levitin
- Leonard B. Meyer
- Max Friedrich Meyer
- James Mursell
- Richard Parncutt
- Oliver Sacks
- Carl Seashore
- Max Schoen
- Roger Shepard
- John Sloboda
- Carl Stumpf
- William Forde Thompson
- Sandra Trehub
- Music Perception
- Musicae Scientiae (journal)
- Musicophilia
- Music, Thought, and Feeling
- Psychology of Music (journal)
- The World in Six Songs
- This Is Your Brain on Music
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