362: The Sound Mind with Nina Kraus
“If I say the sound mind consists of our cognitive and sensory motor and reward networks, certainly you can imagine how music is a jackpot in engaging all of those systems through sound.”
Nina Kraus is a neuroscientist who has done groundbreaking research on sound and hearing for more than three decades. She's the Hugh Knowles Professor of Neurobiology, Communication Sciences, and Otolaryngology at Northwestern University, and she has been a frequent guest on Indre’s other podcast, Cadence: What Music Tells Us About the Mind. Nina has just released her first trade book called Of Sound Mind: How Our Brain Constructs a Meaningful Sonic World. Today she joins Indre to explain just how important sound is, how the hearing brain engages how we think, feel, move, and incorporate information from our other senses, and why the “sound mind” is so integral to how we experience the world.
