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Myriam Kornisch

Assistant Professor of Communication Science and Disorders - Neurogenic Disorders

Dr. Kornisch is an assistant professor at the University of Mississippi and her area of specialty are neurogenic communication disorders.

Research Interests

  • Neurogenic Communication Disorders 
  • Cognitive Neuroscience 
  • Fluency Disorders 
  • Bilingualism 

Biography

Dr. Kornisch is an assistant professor in the Department of Communication Sciences and Disorders and a faculty member in the Neuroscience program at the University of Mississippi. Her general research interests are in cognitive neuroscience.

She specializes in (1) neurogenic communication disorders and (2) bilingualism. She has completed her PhD at the University of Canterbury in New Zealand and a postdoctoral fellowship at the Montreal Neurological Institute and McGill University (Canada). In addition, Dr. Kornisch has worked as a clinician/clinical supervisor in New Zealand and Germany. 

Publications

Dr. Kornisch has extensively published co-authored and peer-reviewed articles, including: 
  • Llewelyn, L. E., Kornisch, M., Park, H, Ikuta, T. (under review). Hippocampal Functional Connectivity in Parkinson’s Disease. Neurodegenerative Diseases. 
  • Wilson K., Kornisch M., Ikuta T. (2022). Disrupted Functional Connectivity of the Primary Auditory Cortex in Autism. Psychiatry Research: Neuroimaging. 
  • Snyder, G., Manahan A., McKnight P., Kornisch M. (2021). The Effects of Written Stuttering Disclosure on the Perceptions of a Child who Stutters. Language, Speech, and Hearing Services in Schools, 52 (4), 1031-1048. 
  • Kornisch, M. (2021). Bilinguals who Stutter: A Cognitive Perspective. Journal of Fluency Disorders, 67 (1), 105819. 
  • Kornisch, M., Robb, M.P., & Jones, R. D. (2020): Estimates of functional cerebral hemispheric differences in monolingual and bilingual people who stutter: Dichotic listening paradigm, Clinical Linguistics & Phonetics, 34 (8), 774-789. 
  • Stokes, S. F., Klee, T., Kornisch, M., & Furlong, L. (2017). Visuospatial and verbal short-term memory correlates of vocabulary ability in preschool children. Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research, 60 (8), 2249-2258. 
  • Kornisch, M., Robb M. P., & Jones R. D. (2017). Estimates of functional cerebral hemispheric differences in monolingual and bilingual people who stutter: Dual-task paradigm. Clinical Linguistics & Phonetics, 31 (6), 409-423. 
  • Kornisch, M., Robb M. P., & Jones R. D. (2017). Estimates of functional cerebral hemispheric differences in monolingual and bilingual people who stutter: Visual hemifield paradigm. Clinical Linguistics & Phonetics, 31(4), 251-265. 

Courses Taught

  • CSD 697 Master's Thesis
  • CSD 627 Neurogenic Disorders of Speech and AAC
  • CSD 526 Neurogenic Disorders of Language
  • CSD 523 Speech Sound Disorders
  • CSD 499 Directed Research Practicum
  • CSD 494 Honors Thesis
  • NEU 491 Directed Research in Neuroscience I
  • CSD 405 Fluency & Voice Disorders

Education

M.S. Speech Pathology, University of Canterbury (2013)

Ph.D. Speech Pathology, University of Canterbury (2015)