All Stories

  1. Listening comprehension of school-age children with cochlear implants: a story of perception and language

    Article • International Journal of Audiology, May 2026, Taylor & Francis

    Karen Banai

  2. Visual Implicit Learning and Speech Recognition in Adult Post-Lingual Cochlear Implant Users

    Article • Trends in Hearing, January 2026, SAGE Publications

    Karen Banai

  3. Perceptual learning of time-compressed speech across different training tasks

    Article • The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, August 2025, Acoustical Society of America (ASA)

    Karen Banai

  4. Accuracy of Auditory and Auditory-Visual Voice Quality Perception by Speech Language Pathologists and Ear, Nose, and Throat Specialists

    Article • Journal of Voice, February 2025, Elsevier

    Karen Banai

  5. Effects of Systematicity on Word Learning in Preschool Children: The Case of Semitic Morpho-Phonology

    Article • Language and Speech, January 2025, SAGE Publications

    Karen Banai

  6. When more is less: the impact of multimorphemic words on learning word meaning

    Article • Language and Cognition, October 2024, Cambridge University Press

    Karen Banai

  7. Task-Specific Rapid Auditory Perceptual Learning in Adult Cochlear Implant Recipients: What Could It Mean for Speech Recognition

    Article • Ear & Hearing, May 2024, Wolters Kluwer Health

    Karen Banai

  8. Introduction to the Special Topic on Auditory Learning and Training

    Article • Auditory Perception & Cognition, April 2024, Taylor & Francis

    Karen Banai

  9. Perceptual Learning: Policy Insights From Basic Research to Real-World Applications

    Article • Policy Insights from the Behavioral and Brain Sciences, October 2023, SAGE Publications

    Karen Banai

  10. Are Current Data Sufficient to Infer that Hearing Aids Contribute to Postural Control and Balance in Older Adults? A Systematic Review

    Article • Folia Phoniatrica et Logopaedica, September 2023, Karger Publishers

    Karen Banai

  11. Implicit learning and individual differences in speech recognition: an exploratory study

    Article • Frontiers in Psychology, September 2023, Frontiers

    Karen Banai

  12. Auditory Perception & Cognition Call for Papers: Special Topic Auditory Learning and Training

    Article • Auditory Perception & Cognition, April 2023, Taylor & Francis

    Karen Banai

  13. Rapid but specific perceptual learning partially explains individual differences in the recognition of challenging speech

    Article • Scientific Reports, June 2022, Springer Science + Business Media

    Karen Banai

  14. One Size Does Not Fit All: Examining the Effects of Working Memory Capacity on Spoken Word Recognition in Older Adults Using Eye Tracking

    Article • Frontiers in Psychology, April 2022, Frontiers

    Karen Banai

  15. Speech Perception in Older Adults: An Interplay of Hearing, Cognition, and Learning?

    Article • Frontiers in Psychology, February 2022, Frontiers

    Karen Banai

  16. Learning beyond words

    Article • The Mental Lexicon, December 2021, John Benjamins

    Karen Banai, Niveen Omar

  17. Plastic changes in speech perception in older adults with hearing impairment following hearing aid use: a systematic review

    Article • International Journal of Audiology, December 2021, Taylor & Francis

    Karen Banai

  18. Size matters? Rapid automatized naming of shape sizes, reading accuracy and reading speed

    Article • Journal of Research in Reading, October 2021, Wiley

    Karen Banai

  19. Buteyko Breathing Technique for Exertion-Induced Paradoxical Vocal Fold Motion (EI-PVFM)

    Article • Journal of Voice, January 2021, Elsevier

    Karen Banai, Dr. Gintas P Krisciunas

  20. Tasks, Talkers and the Perceptual Learning of Time-Compressed Speech

    Article • December 2020, Center for Open Science

    Karen Banai

  21. Rapid Perceptual Learning and Individual Differences in Speech Perception: The Good, the Bad, and the Sad

    Article • Auditory Perception & Cognition, October 2020, Taylor & Francis

    Karen Banai

  22. A role for incidental auditory learning in auditory-visual word learning among kindergarten children

    Article • Journal of Vision, March 2020, Association for Research in Vision and Ophthalmology (ARVO)

    Karen Banai

  23. Rapid Perceptual Learning: A Potential Source of Individual Differences in Speech Perception Under Adverse Conditions?

    Article • Trends in Hearing, January 2020, SAGE Publications

    Karen Banai

  24. Effects of stimulus repetition and training schedule on the perceptual learning of time-compressed speech and its transfer

    Article • Attention Perception & Psychophysics, June 2019, Springer Science + Business Media

    Karen Banai

  25. Learning to decipher time-compressed speech: Robust acquisition with a slight difficulty in generalization among young adults with developmental dyslexia

    Article • PLOS One, October 2018, PLOS

    Karen Banai

  26. Listening under difficult conditions: An activation likelihood estimation meta-analysis

    Article • Human Brain Mapping, March 2018, Wiley

    Karen Banai

  27. Age, Hearing, and the Perceptual Learning of Rapid Speech

    Article • Trends in Hearing, January 2018, SAGE Publications

    Karen Banai

  28. Poor sensitivity to sound statistics impairs the acquisition of speech categories in dyslexia

    Article • Language Cognition and Neuroscience, November 2017, Taylor & Francis

    Karen Banai

  29. The perceptual learning of time-compressed speech: A comparison of training protocols with different levels of difficulty

    Article • PLOS One, May 2017, PLOS

    Karen Banai

  30. Is adaptation to difficult speech poorer when listening to non-native speech?

    Article • The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, September 2016, Acoustical Society of America (ASA)

    Karen Banai

  31. Auditory Perceptual Learning in Adults with and without Age-Related Hearing Loss

    Article • Frontiers in Psychology, February 2016, Frontiers

    Karen Banai

  32. Perceptual context and individual differences in the language proficiency of preschool children

    Article • Journal of Experimental Child Psychology, February 2016, Elsevier

    Karen Banai

  33. hearing aids in the elderly

    Article • Journal of Speech Language and Hearing Research, October 2015, American Speech-Language-Hearing Association (ASHA)

    Dr Limor Lavie, Karen Banai

  34. Phonological memory and word learning deficits in children with specific language impairment: A role for perceptual context?

    Article • Research in Developmental Disabilities, October 2015, Elsevier

    Karen Banai

  35. The Effects of Stimulus Variability on the Perceptual Learning of Speech and Non-Speech Stimuli

    Article • PLOS One, February 2015, PLOS

    Karen Banai

  36. The effects of training length on the perceptual learning of time-compressed speech and its generalization

    Article • The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, October 2014, Acoustical Society of America (ASA)

    Karen Banai

  37. Better Together: Reduced Compliance After Sequential Versus Simultaneous Bilateral Hearing Aids Fitting

    Article • American Journal of Audiology, March 2014, American Speech-Language-Hearing Association (ASHA)

    Dr Limor Lavie, Karen Banai

  38. How difficult is difficult? Speech perception in noise in the elderly hearing impaired

    Article • Journal of Basic and Clinical Physiology and Pharmacology, January 2014, De Gruyter

    Karen Banai

  39. Israel Society for Auditory Research (ISAR): 2014 Annual Scientific Conference

    Article • Journal of Basic and Clinical Physiology and Pharmacology, January 2014, De Gruyter

    Karen Banai

  40. Rapid adaptation to time-compressed speech in young and older adults

    Article • Journal of Basic and Clinical Physiology and Pharmacology, January 2014, De Gruyter

    Karen Banai

  41. Musical Experience, Auditory Perception and Reading-Related Skills in Children

    Article • PLOS One, September 2013, PLOS

    Karen Banai

  42. Prolonged development of auditory skills: A role for perceptual anchoring?

    Article • Cognitive Development, July 2013, Elsevier

    Karen Banai

  43. The development of speech-in-noise perception in Hebrew-speaking school-age children

    Article • Journal of Basic and Clinical Physiology and Pharmacology, January 2013, De Gruyter

    Karen Banai

  44. Perceptual Learning of Time-Compressed Speech: More than Rapid Adaptation

    Article • PLOS One, October 2012, PLOS

    Karen Banai

  45. DEFICIENT ANCHORING—A POTENTIAL LINK BETWEEN PERCEPTUAL AND COGNITIVE DIFFICULTIES AMONG INDIVIDUALS WITH DYSLEXIA

    Article • August 2012, Oxford University Press (OUP)

    Karen Banai

  46. Anchoring in 4- to 6-year-old children relates to predictors of reading

    Article • Journal of Experimental Child Psychology, August 2012, Elsevier

    Karen Banai

  47. The Role of Anchoring in Auditory and Speech Perception in the General and Dyslexic Populations

    Article • July 2012, Wiley

    Karen Banai

  48. Stimulus uncertainty in auditory perceptual learning

    Article • Vision Research, May 2012, Elsevier

    Karen Banai

  49. The effects of context and musical training on auditory temporal-interval discrimination

    Article • Hearing Research, February 2012, Elsevier

    Karen Banai

  50. Auditory working memory and early reading skills in Hebrew-speaking preschool children

    Article • Journal of Basic and Clinical Physiology and Pharmacology, January 2012, De Gruyter

    Karen Banai

  51. Commentary

    Article • International Journal of Therapy and Rehabilitation, November 2011, Mark Allen Group

    Karen Banai

  52. Separable developmental trajectories for the abilities to detect auditory amplitude and frequency modulation

    Article • Hearing Research, October 2011, Elsevier

    Karen Banai

  53. Perception of Speech in Noise: Neural Correlates

    Article • Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience, September 2011, The MIT Press

    Karen Banai

  54. Training to Improve Hearing Speech in Noise: Biological Mechanisms

    Article • Cerebral Cortex, July 2011, Oxford University Press (OUP)

    Karen Banai

  55. Perceptual Anchoring in Preschool Children: Not Adultlike, but There

    Article • PLOS One, May 2011, PLOS

    Karen Banai

  56. Speech-evoked brainstem responses in Arabic and Hebrew speakers

    Article • International Journal of Audiology, July 2010, Taylor & Francis

    Karen Banai

  57. On the importance of anchoring and the consequences of its impairment in dyslexia

    Article • Dyslexia, July 2010, Wiley

    Karen Banai

  58. Learning two things at once: differential constraints on the acquisition and consolidation of perceptual learning

    Article • Neuroscience, January 2010, Elsevier

    Karen Banai

  59. The Effects of Global and Local Stimulus Context on Auditory Frequency Discrimination

    Article • Journal of Basic and Clinical Physiology and Pharmacology, January 2010, De Gruyter

    Karen Banai

  60. Learning Disorders: Beyond Dyslexia

    Article • September 2009, Wiley

    Karen Banai

  61. Perceptual learning as a tool for boosting working memory among individuals with reading and learning disability

    Article • Learning & Perception, June 2009, Akademiai Kiado

    Karen Banai

  62. Reading and Subcortical Auditory Function

    Article • Cerebral Cortex, March 2009, Oxford University Press (OUP)

    Karen Banai

  63. Central Auditory Processing Development in Adolescents With and Without Learning Disabilities

    Article • Journal of Basic and Clinical Physiology and Pharmacology, January 2009, De Gruyter

    Karen Banai

  64. Auditory Frequency Discrimination Development Depends on the Assessment Procedure

    Article • Journal of Basic and Clinical Physiology and Pharmacology, January 2008, De Gruyter

    Karen Banai

  65. Brainstem Timing Deficits in Children with Learning Impairment May Result from Corticofugal Origins

    Article • Audiology and Neurotology, January 2008, Karger Publishers

    Karen Banai

  66. Auditory-Processing Malleability

    Article • Current Directions in Psychological Science, April 2007, SAGE Publications

    Karen Banai

  67. Sensory-based learning disability: Insights from brainstem processing of speech sounds

    Article • International Journal of Audiology, January 2007, Taylor & Francis

    Karen Banai

  68. Dyslexia and the failure to form a perceptual anchor

    Article • Nature Neuroscience, November 2006, Springer Science + Business Media

    Karen Banai

  69. On the Relationship between Speech- and Nonspeech-Evoked Auditory Brainstem Responses

    Article • Audiology and Neurotology, January 2006, Karger Publishers

    Karen Banai

  70. Auditory Processing Deficits in Dyslexia: Task or Stimulus Related?

    Article • Cerebral Cortex, December 2005, Oxford University Press (OUP)

    Karen Banai

  71. Brainstem Timing: Implications for Cortical Processing and Literacy

    Article • Journal of Neuroscience, October 2005, Society for Neuroscience

    Karen Banai

  72. Patterns of deficit in auditory temporal processing among dyslexic adults

    Article • Neuroreport, March 2004, Wolters Kluwer Health

    Karen Banai

  73. Poor Frequency Discrimination Probes Dyslexics with Particularly Impaired Working Memory

    Article • Audiology and Neurotology, January 2004, Karger Publishers

    Karen Banai

  74. Frequency and Intensity Discrimination in Dyslexia

    Article • Springer Science + Business Media

    Karen Banai

  75. Psychoacoustics and Working Memory in Dyslexia

    Article • Springer Science + Business Media

    Karen Banai

  76. Speech Perception in Noise among Learning Disabled Teenagers

    Article • Springer Science + Business Media

    Karen Banai