Publications

Lavie, L., Tobia, N., Slav-Zarfati, N., Castel, S., & Banai, K. (2024). Are Current Data Sufficient to Infer that Hearing Aids Contribute to Postural Control and Balance in Older Adults? A Systematic Review. Folia Phoniatrica et Logopaedica, 76(3), 232–244. 

Seitz, A. R., Sekuler, A., Dosher, B., Wright, B. A., Huang, C.-B., Shawn Green, C., Pack, C. C., Sagi, D., Levi, D., Tadin, D., Quinlan, E., Jiang, F., Diaz, G. J., Ghose, G., Fiser, J., Banai, K., Visscher, K., Huxlin, K., Shams, L., … Kourtzi, Z. (2023). Perceptual Learning: Policy Insights From Basic Research to Real-World Applications. Policy Insights from the Behavioral and Brain Sciences, 10(2), 324-332. https://doi.org/10.1177/23727322231195268

Lavie, L., Shechter Shvartzman, L., & Banai, K. (2022). Plastic changes in speech perception in older adults with hearing impairment following hearing aid use: A systematic review. International journal of audiology, 61(12), 975–983. https://doi.org/10.1080/14992027.2021.2014073

Banai K & Lavie L. (2021). Rapid perceptual learning and individual differences in speech perception: The good, the bad, and the sad. Auditory Perception & Cognition

Banai K & Lavie L. (2020). Perceptual learning and speech perception: A new hypothesis. Proceedings of the International symposium on auditory and Audiological Research, Vol 7: Auditory learning in biological and artificial systems, 53-60. 

Alain C., Du Y., Bernstein L.J., Barten T. & Banai K. (2018). Listening under difficult conditions: An activation likelihood estimation meta-analysis. Human Brain Mapping. doi: 10.1002/hbm.24031

Green C.S., Banai K., Lu Z.L.  & Bavelier D. (2018). Perceptual Learning. Steven’s Handbook of Experimental Psychology and Cognitive Neuroscience, 4th edition. Wiley 

Banai K. & Ahissar M. (2018). Poor sensitivity to sound statistics impairs the acquisition of speech categories in dyslexia. Language, Cognition and Neuroscience. 

Banai K. & Amitay S. (2012). Stimulus uncertainty in auditory perceptual learning. Vision Research, 61:83-88. 

Banai K. & Ahissar M. (2010). On the importance of anchoring and the consequences of its impairment in dyslexia. Dyslexia. 16:240-257. 

Banai K., Hornickle J., Skoe E., Nicol T., Zecker S. & Kraus N. (2009). Reading and subcortical auditory function. Cerebral Cortex. 

Nitsan, G., Banai, K., Ben-David, B. (in press). The Limits of Listening: How Cognitive Load and Cognitive Capacity Shape Effort in Speech Perception. Speech Communication. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.specom.2026.103459 

Hagay, R., Mansour, D., Tsach, N., Banai, K., & Novogrodsky, R. (2026). Listening comprehension of school-age children with cochlear implants: a story of perception and language. International Journal of Audiology, 1–13. https://doi.org/10.1080/14992027.2026.2664659 

Khayr, R., Khnifes, R., & Banai, K. (2026). Visual Implicit Learning and Speech Recognition in Adult Post-Lingual Cochlear Implant Users. Trends in Hearing, 30, 23312165261434604. https://doi.org/10.1177/23312165261434604

Omar, N., Nir, B., & Banai, K. (2026). Effects of Systematicity on Word Learning in Preschool Children: The Case of Semitic Morpho-Phonology. Language and Speech, 69(1), 183-204. https://doi.org/10.1177/00238309241312983

Yosef Davda, G., Sussan, J., Lavie, L., & Banai, K. (2025). Perceptual learning of time-compressed speech across different training tasksa). The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, 158(2), 1103–1112. https://doi.org/10.1121/10.0038966 

Finkelstein, M. Y., Banai, K., & Sella Weiss, O. (2025). Accuracy of Auditory and Auditory-Visual Voice Quality Perception by Speech Language Pathologists and Ear, Nose, and Throat Specialists. Journal of voice, S0892-1997(25)00028-1. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jvoice.2025.01.030 

Khayr, R., Khnifes, R., Shpak, T., & Banai, K. (2024). Task-Specific Rapid Auditory Perceptual Learning in Adult Cochlear Implant Recipients: What Could It Mean for Speech Recognition. Ear and hearing. https://doi.org/10.1097/AUD.0000000000001523

Lavie, L., Tobia, N., Slav-Zarfati, N., Castel, S., & Banai, K. (2024). Are Current Data Sufficient to Infer that Hearing Aids Contribute to Postural Control and Balance in Older Adults? A Systematic Review. Folia Phoniatrica et Logopaedica, 76(3), 232–244. 

Omar, N., Banai, K., & Nir, B. (2024). When more is less: the impact of multimorphemic words on learning word meaning. Language and Cognition, 16(4), 1852-1880.

Khayr R., Karawani H. & Banai K. (2023). Implicit learning and individual differences in speech recognition: An exploratory study. Frontiers in Psychology, 14, 1238823. https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2023.1238823

Seitz, A. R., Sekuler, A., Dosher, B., Wright, B. A., Huang, C.-B., Shawn Green, C., Pack, C. C., Sagi, D., Levi, D., Tadin, D., Quinlan, E., Jiang, F., Diaz, G. J., Ghose, G., Fiser, J., Banai, K., Visscher, K., Huxlin, K., Shams, L., … Kourtzi, Z. (2023). Perceptual Learning: Policy Insights From Basic Research to Real-World Applications. Policy Insights from the Behavioral and Brain Sciences, 10(2), 324-332. https://doi.org/10.1177/23727322231195268

Banai K.,  Karawani H., Lavie L., & Lavner Y. (2022). Rapid but specific perceptual learning partially explains individual differences in the recognition of challenging speech. Scientific Reports, 12(1), 10011. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-022-14189-8

Shechter Shvartzman L., Lavie L. & Banai, K. (2022). Speech Perception in Older Adults: An Interplay of Hearing, Cognition, and Learning?. Frontiers in psychology, 13, 816864. https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2022.816864

Lavie, L., Shechter Shvartzman, L., & Banai, K. (2022). Plastic changes in speech perception in older adults with hearing impairment following hearing aid use: A systematic review. International journal of audiology, 61(12), 975–983. https://doi.org/10.1080/14992027.2021.2014073

Banai K & Lavie L. (2021). Rapid perceptual learning and individual differences in speech perception: The good, the bad, and the sad. Auditory Perception & Cognition

Lavie, L., Shechter Shvartzman, L., & Banai, K. (2021). Plastic changes in speech perception in older adults with hearing impairment following hearing aid use: a systematic review. International journal of audiology

Omar N., Banai K. & Nir B. (2021). Learning beyond words: Morphology and the encoding of hierarchical categories. The Mental Lexicon, 16:397-421. 

Rotman T, Lavie, L & Banai K. (2020). Rapid perceptual learning: A potential source of individual differences in speech perception under adverse conditions? Trends in Hearing. https://doi.org/10.1177/2331216520930541 

Rotman T, Lavie, L & Banai K. (2020). Rapid perceptual learning of time-compressed speech and the perception of natural fast speech in older adults with presbycusis. Proceedings of the International symposium on auditory and Audiological Research, Vol 7: Auditory learning in biological and artificial systems, 93-100. 

Banai K., Nir B., Moav-Scheff R. & Bar-Ziv N. (2020). A role for incidental auditory learning in auditory-visual word learning among kindergarten children . Journal of Vision, 20(4). 

Banai K & Lavie L. (2020). Perceptual learning and speech perception: A new hypothesis. Proceedings of the International symposium on auditory and Audiological Research, Vol 7: Auditory learning in biological and artificial systems, 53-60. 

Tarabeih-Ghanayim  M. Lavner Y. & Banai K. (2020). Tasks, talkers and the perceptual learning of time compressed speech. Auditory Perception & Cognition, 3:33-54.

Halevi Katz D., Sella O., Golan H., Banai K., Van Swearingen J., Krisciunas, G.P., & Verdolini Abbott, K. (2019). Buteyko breathing technique for exertion-induced paradoxical vocal fold motion (EI-PVFM). Journal of Voice 

Banai K. & Lavner Y. (2019). The effects of stimulus repetition and training schedule on the perceptual learning of time-compressed speech and its transfer. Attention, Perception & Psychophysics. doi: 10.3758/s13414-019-01714-7 

Green C.S., Banai K., Lu Z.L.  & Bavelier D. (2018). Perceptual Learning. Steven’s Handbook of Experimental Psychology and Cognitive Neuroscience, 4th edition. Wiley 

Manheim M., Lavie L. & Banai K. (2018). Age, hearing and the perceptual learning of rapid speech. Trends in Hearing, 22:1-18. doi: 10.1177/2331216518778651 

Alain C., Du Y., Bernstein L.J., Barten T. & Banai K. (2018). Listening under difficult conditions: An activation likelihood estimation meta-analysis. Human Brain Mapping. doi: 10.1002/hbm.24031

Gabay Y., Karni A. & Banai K. (2018).  Learning to decipher time-compressed speech: Robust acquisition with a slight difficulty in generalization among young adults with developmental dyslexia. PLoS One, 13(10): e0205110. 

Banai K. & Ahissar M. (2018). Poor sensitivity to sound statistics impairs the acquisition of speech categories in dyslexia. Language, Cognition and Neuroscience. 

Karawani H., Lavie L. & Banai, K. (2017). Shor-term auditory learning in older and younger adults. Proceedings of the International Symposium on Auditory and Audiological Research. 

Gabay Y., Karni A. & Banai K. (2017). The perceptual learning of time-compressed speech: A comparison of training protocols with different levels of difficulty. PLOS One. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0176488

Karawani H., Bitan T., Attias J. & Banai K. (2016). Auditory perceptual learning in adults with and without age-related hearing loss. Frontiers in Psychology 6:2066. doi: 10.3389/fpsyg.2015.02066 

Banai K. & Lavner Y. (2016). The effects of exposure and training on the perception of time-compressed speech in native versus nonnative listeners. Journal of the Acoustical Society of America. 140 doi: 10.1121/1.4962499

Banai K. & Yifat R. (2016). Perceptual context and individual difference in the language proficiency of preschool children. Journal of Experimental Child Psychology, 142:118-136. 

Lavie L., Banai K., Karni A. & Attias J. (2015). Hearing-aid induced plasticity in the auditory system of the elderly: Evidence from speech perception. Journal of Speech, Language and Hearing Research. doi: 10.1044/2015_JSLHR-H-14-0225

Moav-Scheff R., Yifat R. & Banai K. (2015). Phonological memory and word learning deficits in children with specific language impairment: A role for perceptual context? Research in Developmental Disabilities, 45:384-399. 

Banai K. & Amitay S. (2015). The effects of stimulus variability on the perceptual learning of speech and non-speech stimuli. PLoS One, 10(2):e0118465. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0118465.

Banai K. & Lavner Y. (2014). The effects of training length on the perceptual learning of time-compressed speech and its generalization. Journal of the Acoustical Society of America. 136 doi: 10.1121/1.4895684

Lavie L., Banai K. & Attias J. (2014). How difficult is difficult? Speech perception in noise in the elderly hearing impaired. Journal of Basic and Clinical Physiology and Pharmacology, 25: 313-316.  

Lavie L., Banai K. & Attias J. (2013). Dichotic listening: A predictor of speech in noise perception in older hearing-impaired adults? Proceedings of the International Symposium on Auditory and Audiological Research.

Banai K. & Yuval-Weiss N. (2013). Prolonged development of auditory skills: A role for perceptual anchoring? Cognitive Development. 28:300-311.  

Banai K. & Kraus N. (2013). Auditory Processing Disorder: An intersection of cognitive, sensory and reward circuits. In: In: G.D. Chermak and F.E. Musiek (eds). Handbook of (Central) Auditory Processing Disorder, 2nd Ed. Volume I, Chapter 7. Plural Publishing Inc: San Diego, CA.

Banai K. & Ahissar M. (2013). Musical experience, auditory perception and reading-related skills in children. PLoS One, 8(9): e75876. 

Banai K.  & Lavner Y. (2012). Perceptual learning of time-compressed speech: More than rapid adaptation. PLoS One, 7(10): e47099. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0047099 

Banai K. & Amitay S. (2012). Stimulus uncertainty in auditory perceptual learning. Vision Research, 61:83-88. 

Banai K. & Yifat R. (2012). Anchoring in 4-to 6-year-old children relates to predictors of reading. Journal of Experimental Child Psychology, 112(4):403-416. 

Yifat R., Zadunaisky-Ehrlich S., Uziel-Karl S., & Banai, K. (2012). Reflexive expressions as discourse strategies in teacher’s talk to children with developmental language disorders in language-based kindergartens. Journal of Interactional Research in Communication Disorders, 3(1): 91-113. 

Banai K., Fisher S. & Ganot R. (2012). The effects of context and musical training on auditory temporal interval discrimination. Hearing Research, 284:59-66. 

Song J., Skoe E., Banai K. & Kraus N. (2012). Training to improve hearing speech in noise: biological mechanisms. Cerebral Cortex, 22(5):1180-1190. 

Banai K, & Yifat R. (2011). Perceptual anchoring in preschool children: not adult like, but there. 

Banai K., Ortiz J., Oppenheimer J. & Wright B.A. (2010). Learning two things at once: Differential constraints on the acquisition and consolidation of perceptual learning. Neuroscience. 165:436-444. 

Banai K. & Ahissar M. (2010). On the importance of anchoring and the consequences of its impairment in dyslexia. Dyslexia. 16:240-257. 

Banai K., Hornickle J., Skoe E., Nicol T., Zecker S. & Kraus N. (2009). Reading and subcortical auditory function. Cerebral Cortex.