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Welcome to Inquiring Minds. I'm Indravis Gontas.

This is a podcast that explores the space where science and society collide.

We want to find out what's true, what's left to discover, and why it matters.

I've been looking forward to releasing this episode for weeks now. Earlier this summer, I got to talk to one of my favorite researchers in the

sound and health space. Nina Krauss 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.

She's been a frequent guest on my other podcast, Cadence, what music tells us about the mind,

and she's just released her first trade book called Of Sound Mind, How Her Brain Constructs a Meaningful Sonic world. It's a culmination of all of her

research and experiences, and it was really wonderful to talk to her about it. She also has a

really great website called Brain Volts, where you can find a treasure trove of information about music and sound and the brain.

Nina Krause, welcome to inquiring minds.

Glad to be here.

So this book that you've just published of Sound Mind is such a wonderful compilation of so many decades of work. I have to say it was

such a pleasure to read through all the different ways in which you've pulled together

the different aspects of what your lab brain volts does and into this sort of larger picture

that you call the sound mind. So I want to start there and ask you this sort of larger picture that you call the sound mind.

So I want to start there and ask you to sort of give us a sense of why is it a sound mind

rather than just sort of like the neuroscience of sound.

So the auditory system, the hearing brain is vast. And, you know, it is, I mean, everybody is, is

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