Aging – Brainvolts

BBC Radio 4, June 3, 2021
A Life in Music

Spirituality and Aging Symposium, 2019
Music, Meaning and Aging

McKnight Brain Institute Lecture, 2013
Music, the Brain and Aging

Publications

Anderson S, White-Schwoch T, Parbery-Clark A, Kraus N (2013) Reversal of age-related neural timing delays with training. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 110(11): 4357-4362.
Anderson S, Kraus N (2013) Auditory training: evidence for neural plasticity in older adults. SIG 6, Perspectives on Hearing and Hearing Disorders: Research and Diagnostics. 17: 37-57.
Anderson S, Kraus N (2013) The potential role of the cABR in assessment and management of hearing impairment. International Journal of Otolaryngology.
Anderson S, Parbery-Clark A, White-Schwoch T, Drehobl S, Kraus N (2013) Effects of hearing loss on the subcortical representation of speech cues. The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America. 133(5): 3030-3038
Anderson S, Parbery-Clark A, White-Schwoch T, Kraus N (2012) Aging affects neural precision of speech encoding. Journal of Neuroscience. 32(41): 14156-14164.
Anderson S, Parbery-Clark A, White-Schwoch T, Kraus N (2013) Auditory brainstem response to complex sounds predicts self-reported speech-in-noise performance. Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research. 56(1): 31-43.
Anderson S, Parbery-Clark A, Yi H, Kraus N (2011) A neural basis of speech-in-noise perception in older adults. Ear and Hearing. 32(6): 750-757.
Anderson S, White-Schwoch T, Choi HJ, Kraus N (2013) Training changes processing of speech cues in older adults with hearing loss. Frontiers in Systems Neuroscience. 7(97).
Anderson S, White-Schwoch T, Choi HJ, Kraus N (2014) Partial maintenance of auditory-based cognitive training benefits in older adults. Neuropsychologia. 62: 286-296
Anderson S, White-Schwoch T, Parbery-Clark A, Kraus N (2013) A dynamic auditory-cognitive system supports speech-in-noise perception in older adults. Hearing Research. 300: 18-32.
Bellis TJ, Nicol T, Kraus N (2000) Aging affects hemispheric asymmetry in the neural representation of speech sounds. Journal of Neuroscience. 20: 791-797.
Cheng Y, Jia G, Zhang Y, Hao H, Shan Y, Yu L, Sun X, Zheng Q, Kraus N, Merzenich MM, Zhou X (2017) Positive impacts of early auditory training on cortical processing at an older age. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 114(24):6364–6369.
Fitzroy A, Krizman J, Tierney A, Agouridou M, Kraus N (2015) Longitudinal maturation of auditory cortical function during adolescence. Frontiers in Human Neuroscience. 0.743055556
Johnson KL, Nicol T, Kraus N (2008) Developmental plasticity in the human auditory brainstem. Journal of Neuroscience. 28(15): 4000-4007.
Kraus N (2013) 20Q: Noise, aging and the brain - how experience and training can improve communication. AudiologyOnline. 11990
Kraus N, Anderson S (2014) Music benefits across the lifespan: enhanced processing of speech in noise. Hearing Review. 21(8): 18-21.
Kraus N, Anderson S (2016) Auditory processing disorder: biological basis and treatment efficacy. Translational Research in Audiology, Neurotology, and the Hearing Sciences. Le Prell, CG, Lobarinas E, Popper AN, Fay RR, eds. Springer Science+Business Media, Berlin, Germany.
Kraus N, Özdamar Ö, Stein L, Reed N (1984) Absent auditory brain stem response: peripheral hearing loss or brain stem dysfunction?. Laryngoscope. 94: 400-6.
Kraus N, White-Schwoch T (2014) Music training: lifelong investment to protect the brain from aging and hearing loss. Acoustics Australia. 42(2): 117-123.
Krizman J, Tierney A, Fitzroy A, Skoe E, Amar J, Kraus N (2015) Continued maturation of auditory brainstem function during adolescence: a longitudinal approach. Clinical Neurophysiology. 126: 2348-2355.
Musacchia G, Arum L, Garstecki D, Nicol T, Kraus N (2009) Audiovisual deficits in older adults with hearing loss: biological evidence. Ear and Hearing. 30(5): 1-10.
Parbery-Clark A, Anderson S, Hittner E, Kraus N (2012) Musical experience offsets age-related delays in neural timing. Neurobiology of Aging. 33: 1483.e1–1483.e4.
Parbery-Clark A, Anderson S, Hittner E, Kraus N (2012) Musical experience strengthens the neural representation of sounds important for communication in middle-aged adults. Frontiers in Aging Neuroscience. 4(30): 1-12.
Parbery-Clark A, Anderson S, Kraus N (2013) Musicians change their tune: how hearing loss alters the neural code. Hearing Research. 302: 121-131.
Parbery-Clark A, Strait DL, Anderson S, Hittner E, Kraus N (2011) Musical experience and the aging auditory system: implications for cognitive abilities and hearing speech in noise. PLoS One. 6(5): e18082.
Skoe E, Kraus N (2010) Auditory brainstem response to complex sounds: a tutorial. Ear and Hearing. 31(3): 302-324.
Skoe E, Kraus N (2012) A little goes a long way: how the adult brain is shaped by musical training in childhood. Journal of Neuroscience. 32(34): 11507–11510.
Skoe E, Krizman J, Anderson S, Kraus N (2015) Stability and plasticity of auditory brainstem function across the lifespan. Cerebral Cortex. 25(6): 1415-1426.
Spitzer E, White-Schwoch T, Woodruff Carr K, Skoe E, Kraus N (2015) Continued maturation of the click-evoked auditory brainstem response in preschoolers. Journal of the American Academy of Audiology. 26: 30-35
Strait DL, Kraus N (2014) Biological impact of auditory expertise across the life span: musicians as a model of auditory learning. Hearing Research. 308: 109-121.
Strait DL, O’Connell S, Parbery-Clark A, Kraus N (2014) Musicians’ enhanced neural differentiation of speech sounds arises early in life: developmental evidence from ages three to thirty. Cerebral Cortex. 24(9): 2512-2521.
Thompson EC, White-Schwoch T, Tierney A, Kraus N (2015) Beat synchronization across the lifespan: intersection of development and musical experience. PLoS One. 10(6): e0128839.
Tierney A, Krizman J, Kraus N (2015) Music training alters the course of adolescent auditory development. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 112(32): 10062-10067.
White-Schwoch T, Woodruff Carr K, Anderson S, Strait DL, Kraus N (2013) Older adults benefit from music training early in life: biological evidence for long-term training-driven plasticity. Journal of Neuroscience. 33(45): 17667-17674.
Kraus N, Anderson S (2012) cABR may improve hearing aid outcomes. Hearing Journal. 65(11): 56.
Kraus N, Anderson S (2013) In older adults, the brain can still be trained to hear in noise. Hearing Journal. 66(5): 32.
Kraus N, Anderson S (2013) Music training: an antidote for aging. Hearing Journal. 66(3): 52.
Kraus N, Anderson S (2013) The auditory-cognitive system: To screen or not to screen. Hearing Journal. 66(7): 36.
Kraus N, Anderson S (2013) The effects of aging on auditory processing. Hearing Journal. 66(1): 36.
Kraus N, Anderson S (2014) Better speech processing in smaller amplitudes. Hearing Journal. 67(3): 48.
Kraus N, White-Schwoch T (2016) Not-so-hidden hearing loss. Hearing Journal. 69(5): 38-40.
Kraus N, White-Schwoch T (2016) Timescales of auditory processing. Hearing Journal. 69(1): 36-40.
Kraus N, White-Schwoch T (2019) Training older adults to hear better. Hearing Journal. 72(1): 46-47
Kraus N, Anderson S (2014) Bigger is not better: effects of hearing loss on central processing. Hearing Journal. 67(1): 24.