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Nina Kraus

Department of Communication Sciences and Disorders

Nina Kraus investigates the neurobiology underlying speech and music perception and learning-associated brain plasticity. She studies normal listeners throughout the lifespan, clinical populations (poor-readers; autism; hearing loss), auditory experts (musicians) and an animal model. Her method of assessing the brain’s encoding of sounds has been adapted as BioMARK (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

Banai K, Hornickel JM, Skoe E, Nicol T, Zecker S, Kraus N (2009) Reading and Subcortical Auditory Function. Cerebral Cortex, in press.

Chandrasekaran B, Nicol T, Kraus N (2009) The scalp-recorded brainstem response to speech: neural origins. Psychophysiology, in press.

Strait DL, Skoe E, Kraus N, Ashley R (2009) Musical experience and neural efficiency: effects of training on subcortical processing of vocal expressions of emotion. European Journal of Neuroscience 29:661-668.

Johnson KL, Nicol TG, Zecker SG, Bradlow A, Skoe E, Kraus N. (2008).
Brainstem encoding of voiced consonant-vowel stop syllables.Clinical Neurophysiology 119: 2623-2635.

Full list of publications

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