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How our brain makes sense of a noisy world, with Nina Kraus, PhD

Speaking of Psychology

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The Connection Between Sound and Language

People tend to think of reading as a visual activity, but your research has shown that sound is critical to our ability to read. So why is that? We learned to speak before we learned to read. And in children who have difficulty reading and who have delayed language skills, we typically see that aspects of timing and of the processing of the harmonics are key.

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