Meet Neuroscientist Nina Kraus on How Our Brain Constructs a Meaningful Sonic World.

In this episode Our Founder Jensine meets with Nina Kraus Nina 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. Jensine shares in discussion with Nina the vast ways we are connecting to sound; And the future of wellness practices like actively engaging in conversation or learning a new instrument. 32peces supports educational programming to support these methods and efforts through curated after school enrichment courses like ©MusicMakers as our collective continues to learn ways to support these developments with artisans through the medium form. To learn more about 32peces Enrichment programming visit us Here Download Your #free audiobook "My founders Diary"