Publications

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

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

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

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 & 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. 

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 

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. 

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

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 

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 

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 

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

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.

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

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). doi:https://doi.org/10.1167/jovi.20.3.4 

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. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0205110 

Banai K. & Ahissar M. (2017). Poor sensitivity to sound statistics impairs the acquisition of speech categories in dyslexia. Language, Cognition and Neuroscience. doi: 10.1080/23273798.2017.1408851

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. doi:10.1016/j.jecp.2015.10.001

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. doi: 10.1016/j.ridd.2015.08.010

Banai K. & Ahissar M. (2013). Musical experience, auditory perception and reading-related skills in children. PLoS One, 8(9): e75876. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0075876 

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. 

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. 

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

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 

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

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. & 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

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., 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. 

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

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

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 

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

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.

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. 

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