The Team

Karen Banai

Karen Banai, PhD 

(Director)

Limor Lavie

               Limor Lavie, PhD 


Ravit Cohen-Mimran

Ravit Cohen-Mimran, PhD 


Naama Tsach

Naama Tsach, PhD

(Research Associate)

PhD Students

Ranin Khayr

Ranin Khayr

Perceptual learning and speech perception in adult cochlear implant users 

Liat Shechter

Liat Shechter

Plasticity in the auditory system in old age following rehabilitation with hearing aids (with Dr. Limor Lavie) 

Gal Nitsan

Gal Nitsan

Individual differences in speech perception in older adults: Insights from eye-tracking (with Prof. Boaz Ben-David) 

MA Students

Rotem Hagay

Rotem Hagay

Listening comprehension of complex texts by childreb with CIs: Cognitive, perceptual and linguistic fators (with Prof. Rama Novogrodsky and Dr. Naama Tsach)

Dana Mansour

Listening comprehension among school-age children with CIs (with Prof. Rama Novogrodsky and Dr. Naama Tsach

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Avichai Bachar

Perception and production of fast speech: Are they related?

Hazar Khbeis

How different transducers influcence the recognition of time-compressed and natural fast speech?

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Kathrine Khoury

Fast speech recognition in 2nd language Hebrew Speakers (with Dr. Limor Lavie)

Research assistants

Past Members

Rachel Yifat (coPI), Emerita

Yafit Gabay (post-doc), faculty @ University of Haifa

Hanin Karawani (PhD),  faculty @ University of Haifa

Niveen Omar (PhD), postdoc @ University of York

Nawras Tobia (MA), with Hanin Karawani

Saja Khlaile (MA), with Hanin Karawani

Ella Sheinin (MA)

Neta Slav (MA)

Shefi Castel (MA)

Yael Kappel (MA)

Tali Rotman (MA), PhD student @ Idaho State University

Maysoon Ballout (MA)

Juna Sussan (MA)

Maram Tarabeih-Ghanayim (MA)

Maayan Manheim (MA)

Wadeah Jadaon (MA)

Dana Halevi-Katz (MA)

Noga Bar-Ziv (MA)

Meital Sharon (MA)

Topaz Topper Viner (MA)

Adi Simchoni (MA)

Asia Dubois (MA)

Neta Yuval-Weiss (MA)

Ronny Moav-Scheff (MA)

Hazar Ali-Hamid (MA)

Shirley Fisher (MA)

Tsofia Kachta-Kremer (MA, Learning Disabilities)

Shaul Biton (lab manager)

Nimrod Fraenkel (lab manager)

Ossi Teller (lab manager)

Mor Ben-Dor (RA)

Maya First (RA), now a statistician at the Baruch Padeh Medical Center, Poriya

Ayelet Nagar (RA)