The Team
Karen Banai, PhD
(Director)
Limor Lavie, PhD
Ravit Cohen-Mimran, PhD
Naama Tsach, PhD
(Research Associate)
PhD Students
Ranin Khayr
Perceptual learning and speech perception in adult cochlear implant users
Liat Shechter
Plasticity in the auditory system in old age following rehabilitation with hearing aids (with Dr. Limor Lavie)
Gal Nitsan
Individual differences in speech perception in older adults: Insights from eye-tracking (with Prof. Boaz Ben-David)
MA Students
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
Saja Khalaile
Rapid perceptual learning in children (with Dr. Hanin Karawani)
Ella Sheinin
Hearing-aids induced plasticity in older adults
Kathrine Khoury
Fast speech recognition in 2nd language Hebrew Speakers (with Dr. Limor Lavie)
Nawras Tobia
Rapid perceptual learning in older adults (with Dr. Hanin Karawani)
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
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)