Nina Kraus

Nina Kraus is a Professor at Northwestern University, investigating the neural encoding of speech and music and its plasticity. Her research examines the neural encoding of sound in the normal system, how it is disrupted in clinical populations, and how it reacts to differing levels of expertise. For individuals with speech and language disorders (reading, auditory processing disorder, autism), the neural encoding of speech can provide a biological marker of deficient sound encoding, while the musician’s brain illustrates how extensive auditory expertise can enhance sensory-cognitive interactions. Investigations on brain plasticity are aimed at improving speech perception and auditory learning in normal and clinical populations.

As a result of the Listening, Learning and the Brain Project, a research study funded by the National Institutes of Health, the Kraus Lab has developed an objective and non-invasive technique for the diagnosis of physiological disorders in auditory processing, a method now widely known as BioMARK (Biological Marker of Auditory Processing, formerly known as BioMAP).^[1]

References

1. ^ http://www.northwestern.edu/ttp/inventor_spotlight/biomark.html

• Kraus Lab Publications

External links

• Kraus Lab: Auditory Neuroscience Laboratory
• Nina Kraus' Faculty Bio at the Northwestern University Department of Neurobiology and Physiology
• Nina Kraus' Faculty Bio at the Northwestern University Department of Communication Sciences and Disorders
• BioMARK (Biological Marker of Auditory Processing) at Kraus Lab
• BioMARK (Biological Marker of Auditory Processing) at Natus

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