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Professor Kraus studies the biology of auditory learning. She began her career measuring responses from single auditory neurons and was one of the first to show that the adult nervous system has the potential for reorganization following learning; these insights in basic biology galvanized her to investigate auditory learning in humans. Through a series of innovative studies involving thousands of research participants from birth to age 90, her research has found that our lives in sound, for better (musicians, bilinguals) or worse (language disorders, concussion, aging, hearing loss), shape auditory processing. She continues to conduct parallel experiments in animal models to elucidate the mechanisms underlying these phenomena.
Expertise related to UN Sustainable Development Goals
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Education/Academic qualification
Neuroscience, PhD, Northwestern University
… → 1980
BA, Swarthmore College
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Collaborations and top research areas from the last five years
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A Family Genetic Study of Autism and Fragile X Syndrome
Losh, M. C. (PD/PI), Cole, J. S. (Co-Investigator), Kraus, N. (Co-Investigator), Lau, J. C. (Co-Investigator), Norton, E. S. (Co-Investigator) & Voigt, R. (Co-Investigator)
National Institute of Mental Health
8/13/24 → 4/30/29
Project: Research project
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A cross-linguistic, family-genetic study of language in autism and the broad autism phenotype
Losh, M. C. (PD/PI), Cole, J. S. (Co-Investigator), Kraus, N. (Co-Investigator), Lau, J. C. (Co-Investigator) & Voigt, R. (Co-Investigator)
National Institute on Deafness and Other Communication Disorders
5/1/24 → 4/30/29
Project: Research project
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A Family-Genetic Study of Language in Autism
Losh, M. C. (PD/PI), Cole, J. S. (Co-Investigator), Goldrick, M. A. (Co-Investigator), Kraus, N. (Co-Investigator), Krizman, J. L. (Co-Investigator), Lau, J. C. (Co-Investigator), Luo, Y. (Co-Investigator), Norton, E. S. (Co-Investigator), Speights, M. L. (Co-Investigator) & Voigt, R. (Co-Investigator)
National Institute on Deafness and Other Communication Disorders
9/1/23 → 6/30/28
Project: Research project
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Advancing and applying peripheral and central auditory findings in HIV/AIDS
Kraus, N. (PD/PI)
Dartmouth College, National Institute on Deafness and Other Communication Disorders
7/1/22 → 6/30/27
Project: Research project
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Concussion acutely disrupts auditory processing in division I football student-athletes
Krizman, J., Colegrove, D., Cunningham, J., Bonacina, S., Nicol, T., Nerrie, M. & Kraus, N., 2025, In: Brain Injury. 39, 1, p. 17-25 9 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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Prosodic Differences in Women with the FMR1 Premutation: Subtle Expression of Autism-Related Phenotypes Through Speech
Lau, J. C. Y., Guilfoyle, J., Crawford, S., Johnson, G., Landau, E., Xing, J., Kumareswaran, M., Ethridge, S., Butler, M., Goldman, L., Martin, G. E., Zhou, L., Krizman, J., Nicol, T., Kraus, N., Berry-Kravis, E. & Losh, M., Mar 2025, In: International journal of molecular sciences. 26, 6, 2481.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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The relationship between HIV and reading performance for children in Tanzania
Bonacina, S., Lichtenstein, J. D., Niemczak, C. E., Magohe, A., Fellows, A., Nicol, T., Massawe, E., Kraus, N. & Buckey, J. C., Jan 1 2025, In: AIDS. 39, 1, p. 49-56 8 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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Auditory neural processing in children living with HIV uncovers underlying central nervous system dysfunction
Ealer, C., Niemczak, C. E., Nicol, T., Magohe, A., Bonacina, S., Zhang, Z., Rieke, C., Leigh, S., Kobrina, A., Lichtenstein, J., Massawe, E. R., Kraus, N. & Buckey, J. C., Mar 1 2024, In: AIDS. 38, 3, p. 289-298 10 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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Neural Delays in Processing Speech in Background Noise Minimized after Short-Term Auditory Training
Skoe, E. & Kraus, N., Jul 2024, In: Biology. 13, 7, 509.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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