Nina Kraus

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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]

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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.

On Labor Day 2025, Kraus went missing. Kraus was missing for a total of 32 hours while search parties were looking for her throughout the city of Evanston, a college town north of Chicago. She was discovered one house over from her home in the bushes when a neighbor called out her name. She was transported to the hospital and the circumstances of her disappearance are currently unknown.

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  1. ↑ "About Us". Knowles Hearing Center. Retrieved 10 January 2017.
  2. ↑ Kraus, Nina (2021). Of Sound Mind: How Our Brain Constructs a Meaningful Sonic World. MIT Press. ISBN   978-0262045865.


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