Nina Kraus on Hearing, Noise, and Of Sound Mind

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🗓️ 29 November 2021

⏱️ 72 minutes

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We undervalue our sense of hearing and we under-appreciate the impact sweet sounds and disturbing noises have on our well-being. Neuroscientist Nina Kraus of Northwestern University talks about her book, Of Sound Mind. Kraus argues that our listening affects our minds and brains in ways we ignore at our peril.

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0:00.0	Welcome to Econ Talk, Conversations for the Curious, part of the Library of Economics
0:07.0	and Liberty.
0:08.0	I'm your host, Russ Roberts of Shalem College in Jerusalem and Stanford University's Hoover
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0:37.7	Today is October 27th, 2021, and my guest is author and neuroscientist Nina Kraus of Northwestern
0:43.2	University.
0:44.5	Her book and the subject of today's conversation is of sound mind.
0:49.7	How our brain constructs a meaningful sonic world.
0:53.4	Nina, welcome to econtalk.
0:55.0	Well, thank you, Russ.
0:56.6	And I think you can hear from the sound of my voice how happy I am to be talking to you.
1:02.1	This is an utterly fascinating book on a huge part of our daily life that we rarely think
1:07.3	about and often don't fully perceive, which is the role of sound in our lives, music,
1:13.4	language, everything else that makes noise.
1:15.8	How we hear those sounds, how the brain is shaped by them and in turn, how the brain shapes
1:20.8	how we hear.
1:21.8	I want to start with the importance of sound, because as you point out the book, a lot
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