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  1. 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

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

    Article • Frontiers in Psychology, September 2023, Frontiers

    Karen Banai

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

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

    Karen Banai

  4. 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

  5. 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

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

    Article • Frontiers in Psychology, February 2022, Frontiers

    Karen Banai

  7. Learning beyond words

    Article • The Mental Lexicon, December 2021, John Benjamins

    Karen Banai, Niveen Omar

  8. 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

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

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

    Karen Banai

  10. 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

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

    Article • December 2020, Center for Open Science

    Karen Banai

  12. 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

  13. 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

  14. 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

  15. 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

  16. 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

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

    Article • Human Brain Mapping, March 2018, Wiley

    Karen Banai

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

    Article • Trends in Hearing, January 2018, SAGE Publications

    Karen Banai

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

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

    Karen Banai

  20. 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

  21. 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

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

    Article • Frontiers in Psychology, February 2016, Frontiers

    Karen Banai

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

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

    Karen Banai

  24. 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

  25. 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

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

    Article • PLoS ONE, February 2015, PLOS

    Karen Banai

  27. 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

  28. 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

  29. 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

  30. 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

  31. 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

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

    Article • PLoS ONE, September 2013, PLOS

    Karen Banai

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

    Article • Cognitive Development, July 2013, Elsevier

    Karen Banai

  34. 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

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

    Article • PLoS ONE, October 2012, PLOS

    Karen Banai

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

    Article • August 2012, Oxford University Press (OUP)

    Karen Banai

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

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

    Karen Banai

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

    Article • July 2012, Wiley

    Karen Banai

  39. Stimulus uncertainty in auditory perceptual learning

    Article • Vision Research, May 2012, Elsevier

    Karen Banai

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

    Article • Hearing Research, February 2012, Elsevier

    Karen Banai

  41. 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

  42. Commentary

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

    Karen Banai

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

    Article • Hearing Research, October 2011, Elsevier

    Karen Banai

  44. Perception of Speech in Noise: Neural Correlates

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

    Karen Banai

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

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

    Karen Banai

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

    Article • PLoS ONE, May 2011, PLOS

    Karen Banai

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

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

    Karen Banai

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

    Article • Dyslexia, July 2010, Wiley

    Karen Banai

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

    Article • Neuroscience, January 2010, Elsevier

    Karen Banai

  50. 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

  51. Learning Disorders: Beyond Dyslexia

    Article • September 2009, Wiley

    Karen Banai

  52. 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

  53. Reading and Subcortical Auditory Function

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

    Karen Banai

  54. 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

  55. Auditory Frequency Discrimination Development Depends on the Assessment Procedure

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

    Karen Banai

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

    Article • Audiology and Neurotology, January 2008, Karger Publishers

    Karen Banai

  57. Auditory-Processing Malleability

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

    Karen Banai

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

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

    Karen Banai

  59. Dyslexia and the failure to form a perceptual anchor

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

    Karen Banai

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

    Article • Audiology and Neurotology, January 2006, Karger Publishers

    Karen Banai

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

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

    Karen Banai

  62. Brainstem Timing: Implications for Cortical Processing and Literacy

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

    Karen Banai

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

    Article • Neuroreport, March 2004, Wolters Kluwer Health

    Karen Banai

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

    Article • Audiology and Neurotology, January 2004, Karger Publishers

    Karen Banai

  65. Frequency and Intensity Discrimination in Dyslexia

    Article • Springer Science + Business Media

    Karen Banai

  66. Psychoacoustics and Working Memory in Dyslexia

    Article • Springer Science + Business Media

    Karen Banai

  67. Speech Perception in Noise among Learning Disabled Teenagers

    Article • Springer Science + Business Media

    Karen Banai