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

Speaking of Psychology

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Do You Have a Quieter Brain?

If you are an athlete, you have an especially quiet brain. The NIH is funding a study of 500 elite Big Ten Division One athletes over five years. In healthy athletes, the noise, the background noise is suppressed. And so you think of a signal being a sound that you want to hear and the noise being the impediment.

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