Our Team

  • Mr. Yehuda Dor

    Tel-Aviv University


    Yehuda I. Dor completed his M.A. in Clinical Psychology at the Hebrew University in 2015, and a Clinical psychology internship at Mayanei Hayeshua Medical Center in 2020. He is currently a Ph.D. student at Tel-Aviv University, a researcher at the CANlab in Reichman University and a licensed clinical psychologist working in private practice. His research interests are the cognitive, sensory and emotional processes underlying effective communication, the processing of emotional cues in speech, and the various domains involved in age-related differences in speech perception.

  • Ms. Dalith Tal Shir

    Reichman University


    Dalith is a graduate student in clinical psychology at Reichman University, where she also completed her Bachelor of Science degree in psychology.


    At Reichman University she is advised by Prof. Boaz Ben David, and co-advised by Dr. Maor Zeev-Wolf from Ben-Gurion University's Zlotowski Center for Neuroscience. Under their guidance, she investigates the online processing of spoken words in neurotypicals and individuals with schizophrenia, using the Visual World eye-tracking paradigm.
    Along-side her research work, Dalith manages the technical operations of eye tracker studies in the lab

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    Publications and recent conferences:
    Albelda, N., Simkins, C., Tal-Shir, D., & Levit-Binnun, N. (2018). At the End of the Day, Are Screens Good or Bad for You? A Critical Review of Randomized Controlled Studies.

  • Ms. Gal Nitsan

    University of Haifa


    Gal is a PhD student at the University of Haifa, she also works as a speech and language pathologist at an Early Childhood Development Center.

    She holds a B.A in Communication Disorders from Tel-Aviv University, and completed her M.A at the University of Haifa.

    Gal is interested in individual differences in speech perception and in the interplay between top-down and bottom-up processes within speech perception in aging. Her research uses eye-tracking to explore the on-line processing of spoken language.

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    Publications and recent conferences:

    Nitsan, G., Banai, K., & Ben-David, B. M. (2022). One Size Does Not Fit All: Examining the Effects of Working Memory Capacity on Spoken Word Recognition in Older Adults Using Eye Tracking. Frontiers in Psychology, 13, 841466-841466.

    Nitsan, G., Wingfield, A., Lavie, L., & Ben-David, B. M. (2019). Differences in Working Memory Capacity Affect Online Spoken Word Recognition: Evidence from Eye-Movements. Trends in Hearing, 23, 2331216519839624

    Nitsan, G., Banai, K., & Ben-David, B. M. (2020).

     

    The Effects of Working Memory Load and Working Memory Capacity on Online Spoken Word Recognition: Evidence From Eye Movements. Presented at the 12th Speech in Noise Workshop organized by European research group within the speech and hearing community, Toulouse, France.

  • Ms. Tami Harel-Arbeli

    University of Haifa


    Tami Harel-Arbeli, PhD student, Gerontology department in Haifa university. Tami's research centers on speech perception in aging, and especially on older adults' use of contextual information in language processing. She is interested in the cognitive costs and benefits in the use of context. In the lab she uses an eye tracker to explore online language processing in older and younger adults.

    Outside the lab, Tami is an audiologist working for a startup company developing solutions to improve speech understanding in noise and she teaches speech perception in Achva academic college.

    She has a B.A and M.A in communication disorders from Tel Aviv University.

  • Ms. Maya Mentzel

    Tel-Aviv University


    Maya holds an MA in cognitive psychology from Tel Aviv University and a B.A in psychology from Reichman University, in the Honors excellence program. For the past 7 years, she is the lab manager at CABlab headed by Professor Boaz Ben David, who is also her mentor for her Ph.D. Her current research in the lab focuses on the perception of emotion and relationship between emoji and text in social computer mediated communication.

  • Mr. Lior Tidhar


    Lior Tidhar is a Social psychologist specializing in interpersonal relationships. Currently, as a PhD Student, Lior's research examines the influence of stereotypes and intergroup relations on the perception of emotions in speech. Specifically, he studies how age, gender and ethnic stereotypes change the way we perceive the emotion expressed by the stereotyped speaker.

    He has additional interest in Embodied Cognition Theory and also in new technologies used in the social-cognition field of study.

  • Ms. Rony Lemel

    Reichman University


    Rony Lemel Graduated her BA at the Reichman University in Psychology and Business Administration 2020.

    Rony is a researcher in CANlab, currently in process of publishing her first article about the effect of individuals with ADHD on speech processing, using the eye-tracker to explore the on-line processes of spoken language.

    Rony's interests are individuals with ADHD where there are distractions and daily noises around.

    Rony is planning to do her MA in Clinical Psychology.

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    Publications and recent conferences:

    Lemel, R., Ben-David, B. M. (Feb 2020). ADHD Speech and Eye movements. Measuring the effects of ADHD on speech processing using eye movements. 7th Israeli Conference on Cognitive Research, Acco.

  • Ms. Shir Nagar

    Reichman University


    Shir is a clinical psychologist (in internship) and a PhD student at Reichman University. She currently works at the Child and Adolescent outpatient clinic at the "Geha Mental Health Center", and as a teaching assistant for Prof. Mario Mikulincer at RU.


    As a PhD Student at the IDC (Reichman University), Shir is advised by Prof. Mario Mikulincer and Prof. Boaz Ben David. Under their guidance, she investigates the relation between Attachment Theory and sensory perception.


    She holds a B.A. in Psychology Communication Disorders from the IDC (Reichman University), an M.A. in clinical psychology and in Social Psychology from the IDC (Reichman University), and is a graduate of the Educational Psychology program at the Hebrew University in Jerusalem.

     

    Publications:
    Nagar, S., Mikulincer, M., Nitsan, G., & Ben-David, B. M. (2022). Safe and sound: the effects of experimentally priming the sense of attachment security on pure-tone audiometric thresholds among young and older adults. Psychological Science, 33(3), 424-432.


    Birnbaum, G. E., Kanat-Maymon, Y., Mizrahi, M., Barniv, A., Nagar, S., Govinden, J., & Reis, H. T. (2018). Are you into me? Uncertainty and sexual desire in online encounters and established relationships. Computers in Human Behavior, 85, 372-384.

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