Of Sound Mind
By Nina Kraus
By Nina Kraus
By Nina Kraus
By Nina Kraus
Category: Science & Technology | Wellness
Category: Science & Technology | Wellness
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$19.95
Sep 27, 2022 | ISBN 9780262545075
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Sep 28, 2021 | ISBN 9780262365642
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Praise
2022 PROSE Award Winner, Biomedicine
Selected as NPR’s Book of the Day
A Behavioral Scientist Notable Book of 2021
“Of Sound Mind offers a deeply scientific yet often poetic look at the hearing brain and provides an in-depth narrative about why such explorations are important. The expertly rendered illustrations by Katie Shelly that accompany the text make complex processes easy to understand; their cartoonlike quality make science seem familiar, friendly, easy to access… Ms. Kraus’s greatest triumph is in making the invisible visible, in vividly rendering those vibrations of air through the medium of her words and reminding us to pause and listen.”
—The Wall Street Journal
“Of Sound Mind by Nina Kraus explains how our brain constructs a meaningful sonic world and shows for the first time that the processing of sound can drive many of the brain’s core functions.”
—New Scientist
“Drawing on hard science and exuberant appreciation, Of Sound Mind examines why we love music, how we make words, and what we mean when we say, ‘It’s good to hear your voice.’ It also, significantly, advocates for creating our own healthy sonic environments, to ‘allow sound to change us for the better.'”
—Salon.com
“This is a must-read for anyone who is a musician or who has a fascination with how our own bodies work—or both. Put it on your to-read list; you won’t be disappointed.”
—Skeptophilia
Table Of Contents
Introduction
Of Sound Mind: A Partnership between Sound and the Brain 1
I How Sound Works
1 Signals Outside the Head 15
2 Signals Inside the Head 31
3 Learning: Merging Signals Outside the Head with the Signals Inside 55
4 The Listening Brain: A Quest 75
II Our Sonic Selves
5 Music Is the Jackpot: Sensing, Thinking, Moving, Feeling 95
6 Rhythm: Inside and Outside the Head 109
7 The Root of Language Is Sound 127
8 Music and Language: A Partnership 153
9 The Bilingual Brain 173
10 Birdsong 189
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