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Nina Kraus

Department of Communication Sciences and Disorders

Nina Kraus focuses on auditory neuropathy from a central auditory processing perspective, more specifically on how learning-disabled children hear differently from normal children. Her method of assessing the brain’s encoding of sounds has been adapted as BioMAP (biological marker of auditory processing), a commercial product that helps educators and clinicians better diagnose learning disabilities.

Lab Affiliations

Auditory Neuroscience Laboratory

Northwestern University Institute for Neuroscience

Education

PhD	Northwestern University
BA	Swarthmore College

Recent Publications

Johnson K, Nicol T, Zecker S, Kraus N (In Press). Auditory brainstem correlates of perceptual timing deficits. Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience

Musacchia GAE, Sams M, Nicol TG, Kraus N. (2006). Seeing speech affects acoustic information processing in the human brainstem. Experimental Brain Research 168: 1-10.

Song JH, Banai K, Russo NM, Kraus N (2006). On the relationship between speech and nonspeech evoked auditory brainstem responses. Audiology and Neuro-Otology 11: 233-241.

Recent Awards and Honors

Keynote Addresses: Society for Psychophysiological Research

Hallowell Davis Lecture: International Electric Response Study Group

International Symposium and Workshop on Objective Measures in Cochlear Implantation

International Workshop on Mismatch Negativity and Clinical Applications

M.D. Steer Distinguished Lecture

Grants

More than 20 years of NIH grants, most recently for 2002-07. Neural Representation of Acoustic Elements of Speech. NIH/NIDCD. $1,990,000.

Courses

CSD 310	Biological Foundations of Speech and Music
CSD 425	Electrophysiology of the Human Auditory System
CSD 525	Seminar: Topics in Central Auditory Neuroscience