Faculty Profile
Hyejin Park
Assistant Professor of Communication Science and Disorders
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Email: hpark11@olemiss.edu
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Research Description: Dr. Park specializes in typical and atypical language processing results from a brain injury such as stroke, dementia and traumatic brain injury. She is also interested in bilingualism and neuroimaging studies.
Honors Theses:
Lewis, Emily (2022) Indirectly and Directly Involved Students' Perspectives on Multi-modal Communication Treatment in Persons with Aphasia (full text)
Hall, Jessica (2021) Light and Heavy Verb Productions Between Single and Sequential Picture Description Tasks in People with and without Non-fluent Aphasia (full text)
Kozak, Chase Sophia (2021) Light and Heavy Verb Usage by People with Non-Fluent Aphasia (full text)
Available Research Projects:
Language production in people with aphasia (neurogenic language disorder)
Project Description: We are developing research to study whether various tasks used to obtain connected speech samples (e.g., picture description, storytelling, personal story narration) affect language production in healthy older adults and/or people with aphasia (language disorder caused by a brain injury). We use publicly available database of speech samples with and without aphasia to analyze language characteristics.
Desired Student Qualifications: Interested in communication in people with a brain injury and aging, motivated, responsible, organized, and relatively good or willing to learn linguistic skills
Project Timeline: 2020-2021
Duties of Student Researcher: Literature review, Data entry, Data analysis, Writing, Presentation
Last Updated on 2020-09-21 13:39:03