Kirill Nourski, MD, PhD
Associate Professor of Neurosurgery
Office
Current Positions
- Associate Professor of Neurosurgery
Education
- MD in Faculty of Medicine, St. Petersburg State University, St. Petersburg, Russia
- PhD in Neuroscience Graduate Program, The University of Iowa, Iowa City, Iowa, United States
- Postdoctoral Fellow in Neuroscience, Department of Neurosurgery, The University of Iowa, Iowa City, Iowa, United States
Center, Program and Institute Affiliations
Research Interests
- Reponses to repetitive transients within human lateral superior temporal gyrus
- Auditory cortical responses to spectrally degraded sounds
- Human auditory cortex physiology
- Tonotopic organization of the human auditory cortex
- Effects of general anesthesia on auditory cortical responses in humans
- Cortical mechanisms of auditory scene analysis
- Cortical mechanisms of temporal envelope processing and task-related effects on cortical representation of envelope information
Selected Publications
- Park BJ, Noeller J, Gold C, Nourski KV, Bathla G, Hitchon PW. Spinal Nerve Sheath Tumors: Factors Associated with Postoperative Residual and Recurrent Tumors: A Single-Center Experience.World Neurosurg. 2022 Nov;167:e1062-e1071. doi: 10.1016/j.wneu.2022.08.151. Epub 2022 Sep 9.PMID: 36096385
- Park BJ, Gold CJ, Christianson D, DeVries Watson NA, Nourski KV, Woodroffe RW, Hitchon PW. Biomechanical assessment of the effect of sublaminar band tensioning on lumbar motion.J Neurosurg Spine. 2022 Jul 8;37(6):836-842. doi: 10.3171/2022.5.SPINE22371. Print 2022 Dec 1.PMID: 35901707
- Endemann CM, Krause BM, Nourski KV, Banks MI, Veen BV. Multivariate autoregressive model estimation for high-dimensional intracranial electrophysiological data.Neuroimage. 2022 Jul 1;254:119057. doi: 10.1016/j.neuroimage.2022.119057. Epub 2022 Mar 27.PMID: 35354095
- Park BJ, Dougherty MC, Noeller J, Nourski KV, Gold CJ, Menezes AH, Hitchon CA, Bathla G, Yamaguchi S, Hitchon PW. Spinal Meningioma in Adults: Imaging Characteristics, Surgical Outcomes, and Risk Factors for Recurrence.World Neurosurg. 2022 Aug;164:e852-e860. doi: 10.1016/j.wneu.2022.05.054. Epub 2022 May 20.PMID: 35605940
- Nourski KV, Steinschneider M, Rhone AE, Kovach CK, Kawasaki H, Howard MA 3rd. Gamma Activation and Alpha Suppression within Human Auditory Cortex during a Speech Classification Task. J Neurosci. 2022 Jun 22;42(25):5034-5046. doi: 10.1523/JNEUROSCI.2187-21.2022. Epub 2022 May 9. PMID: 35534226
- Schuerman WL, Nourski KV, Rhone AE, Howard MA, Chang EF, Leonard MK. Human intracranial recordings reveal distinct cortical activity patterns during invasive and non-invasive vagus nerve stimulation. Sci Rep. 2021 Nov 23;11(1):22780. doi: 10.1038/s41598-021-02307-x. PMID: 34815529
- Yi HG, Chandrasekaran B, Nourski KV, Rhone AE, Schuerman WL, Howard MA 3rd, Chang EF, Leonard MK. Learning nonnative speech sounds changes local encoding in the adult human cortex. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2021 Sep 7;118(36):e2101777118. doi: 10.1073/pnas.2101777118. PMID: 34475209
- Miller, C. A., Behroozmand, R., Etler, C. P., Nourski, K. V., Reale, R. A., Oya, H. & Greenlee, J. D. (2021). Neural correlates of vocal auditory feedback processing: Unique insights from electrocorticography recordings in a human cochlear implant user. eNeuro Online ahead of print. DOI: 10.1523/ENEURO.0181-20.2020. PMID: 33419861.
- Nourski, K. V., Steinschneider, M., Rhone, A. E., Kovach, C. K., Banks, M. I., Krause, B. M., Kawasaki, H. & Howard, M. A. (2021). Electrophysiology of the Human Superior Temporal Sulcus during Speech Processing. Cereb Cortex 31 (2) 1131-1148. DOI: 10.1093/cercor/bhaa281. PMID: 33063098.
- Nourski, K. V., Steinschneider, M., Rhone, A. E., Krause, B. M., Kawasaki, H. & Banks, M. I. (2021). Cortical Responses to Auditory Novelty Across Task Conditions: An Intracranial Electrophysiology Study. Hear Res 399 107911. DOI: 10.1016/j.heares.2020.107911. PMID: 32081413.