Auditory Neuroscience Laboratory

Tune into the Power2Music Festival this Thursday for a presentation of La Mente Sonora, the Italian translation of Nina Kraus's Of Sound Mind.

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BBC Radio 4 Curious Cases episode 'In the Groove' features Nina Kraus for a discussion about rhythm - Listen now on BBC sounds!

https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/m002404r

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4pHOXYcgdnM

Of Sound Mind Dialogues: An Introduction is now available on Youtube. This is the first episode in a series of discussions with Garrett Oyama and Nina Kraus, on the subject of Nina's book Of Sound Mind.

From Garrett:

The following is a preamble to a series of dialogues discussing Professor Kraus’s book, Of Sound Mind: How our Brain Constructs a Meaningful Sonic World. This is Professor Kraus and I speaking about ideas in the book more broadly, but our hope is to help clarify and expand upon the ideas in this book chapter by chapter.

Of Sound Mind Dialogues: An Introduction (with Garrett Oyama & Nina Kraus) The following is a preamble to a series of dialogues discussing Professor Kraus's book, Of Sound Mind: How our Brain Constructs a Meaningful Sonic World. Thi...

“Sound for Brain Health” — An upcoming discussion with Nina Kraus at University of Groningen, alongside her reception of the Guyot Prize.

This public lecture is organized in celebration of Nina Kraus receiving the Guyot Prize 2024.

The Guyot Prize is the oldest scientific prize awarded by the University of Groningen.

The prize is awarded for outstanding achievements in auditory science and otology.

Nina's talk from the 2024 BrainMind Special Forum is now available on Youtube.

https://youtu.be/lyODb1AewtY?si=JgQmOI9Ty7MNKOI2&t=2050

Tomorrow, August 22nd 2024, Brainvolts' Joseph Luetkehans will speak about the "Biological benefits of a music education" at the The Musical Offering Fall Orientation Event.

When Nina's editor at MIT asked who the target audience was for Of Sound Mind, she told him: “Hermione Granger – a curious high school student who wants to understand the powerful forces in the world”.

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.

Check it out: https://musicthinking.com/a-love-letter-to-sound-with-nina-kraus/ or on your favourite podcast player.

Auditory Neuroscience Laboratory

The most recent episode of the podcast "The Power of Music Thinking" features Nina Kraus presenting "A Love Letter To Sound". Listen here!

A Love Letter to Sound with Nina Kraus A Love Letter to Sound is a conversation with Scientist, Author, and Musician Nina Kraus & Christof Zürn, Chief Evangelist of Music Thinking

Register now for a workshop with Marshall Dawson on The Natural Overtone Series, Equal-Tempered Tuning, Strings Under Tension and the Difficulty of Getting Our Guitars In Tune https://www.guitarworksltd.com/module/class/553733/the-natural-overtone-series-equal-tempered-tuning-strings-under-tension-and-the-difficulty-of-getting-our-guitars-in-tune-sunday-june-23—1030am-noon

Of Sound Mind by Nina Kraus is now available in Italian — La Mente Sonora via Hogrefe Editore 🇮🇹 🧠 🎶
https://www.hogrefe.it/catalogo/volumi/saggi/la-mente-sonora-come-il-nostro-cervello-elabora-i-suoni-intorno-noi/