“With eyes closed and not seeing, while exhaling and not smelling, we hear. From infancy to aging, it's all here, and narrated beautifully with personal stories and anecdotes from her own musical and scientific life.”ĭaniel Levitin, author of This Is Your Brain on Music It will change the way we think about-and value-our sonic experiences, from background noise and everyday sounds to spoken word and music.
“This is really a book that only Kraus could write, but everyone should read.
Mickey Hart, musicologist and drummer for the Grateful Dead What does sound have to do with our daily lives? How does it connect us to the world? How can we understand the power of music and why it sends a chill up our spine? As a lover of sound and the science of sound, Nina Kraus makes the case that the world is sound.” Sound and rhythm are fundamental mysteries of the universe, and this book connects the dots. Gordon Hempton, author of One Square Inch of Silence “”Fascinating, clarifying and personal-this simple-to-read, science-based description of hearing will change the way you listen. Maryanne Wolf, University of California, Los Angeles, and author of Reader, Come Home: The Reading Brain in a Digital World “One of the most beautiful, evocative, illuminating books ever written about how what we hear shapes who we are. Iain McGilchrist, Consultant Psychiatrist and author of The Master and His Emissary She shows us just how deeply sound, and in particular music, is intertwined in the brain with everything else that makes us who we are: how it can harm and how it can heal. “A highly informative and clearly written book: Kraus's enthusiasm for the understanding of the place of sound in our world is infectious. Renée Fleming, soprano and arts and health advocate With lively analogies and diagrams, the book is accessible for those just getting their 'ears' wet, but has much to offer for musicians and researchers as well.” Of Sound Mind is an engaging and entertaining read. “Nina Kraus is a brilliant communicator in her explorations of music and the brain. The sounds of our lives shape our brains, for better and for worse, and help us build the sonic world we live in. Kraus shows how our engagement with sound leaves a fundamental imprint on who we are. She traces what happens in the brain when we speak another language, have a language disorder, experience rhythm, listen to birdsong, or suffer a concussion. Kraus explores the power of music for healing as well as the destructive power of noise on the nervous system. Sound plays an unrecognized role in both healthy and hurting brains. Auditory neurons make calculations at one-thousandth of a second hearing is the speediest of our senses. It interacts with what we know, with our emotions, with how we think, with our movements, and with our other senses. Our hearing brain, Kraus tells us, is vast. Kraus explores what goes on in our brains when we hear a word-or a chord, or a meow, or a screech. We don't just hear we engage with sounds.
Our hearing is always on-we can't close our ears the way we close our eyes-and yet we can ignore sounds that are unimportant. In Of Sound Mind, Nina Kraus examines the partnership of sound and brain, showing for the first time that the processing of sound drives many of the brain's core functions. Making sense of sound is one of the hardest jobs we ask our brains to do. How sound leaves a fundamental imprint on who we are. If you can’t find the resource you need here, visit our contact page to get in touch.Įstablished in 1962, the MIT Press is one of the largest and most distinguished university presses in the world and a leading publisher of books and journals at the intersection of science, technology, art, social science, and design. The MIT Press has been a leader in open access book publishing for over two decades, beginning in 1995 with the publication of William Mitchell’s City of Bits, which appeared simultaneously in print and in a dynamic, open web edition.Ĭollaborating with authors, instructors, booksellers, librarians, and the media is at the heart of what we do as a scholarly publisher. Today we publish over 30 titles in the arts and humanities, social sciences, and science and technology. MIT Press began publishing journals in 1970 with the first volumes of Linguistic Inquiry and the Journal of Interdisciplinary History. International Affairs, History, & Political Science.MIT Press Direct is a distinctive collection of influential MIT Press books curated for scholars and libraries worldwide.
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