Department of Speech and Hearing Sciences

Laura Murray

Associate Professor of Speech and Hearing
Core faculty in programs of Cognitive and Neural Sciences
E-mail: lmurray@indiana.edu
Phone: (812) 855-3585

Research Interests

Photo of Laura Murray Adult neurogenic communication disorders. I am particularly interested in determining how deficits in cognitive processes other than language, such as attention and memory, interact with the language skills of adults who have suffered left or right hemisphere brain-damage, or closed head trauma as well as adults who suffer from progressive dementing illnesses such as Alzheimer's disease, Parkinson's disease, and Huntington's disease. A second of line of research focuses on developing treatment protocols to remediate the linguistic and nonlinguistic deficits of adults with neurogenic communication disorders.

Teaching Responsibilities/Interests

I primarily teach graduate courses in adult neurogenic cognitive-communication disorders including Aphasia, Traumatic Brain Injury, and disorders associated with right-hemisphere brain-damage or dementia. All of these courses review the pertinent disorders as well as the most current assessment and treatment techniques. I also teach the undergraduate course, Cognitive and Communicative Aspects of Aging, during the spring semester. This course reviews how, as adults, our cognitive and communicative abilities change with age, as well as introduces the variety of disorders and diseases that may affect the cognitive and communication abilities of adults.