Dr. Nitza Horev

Lecturer in Communication Disorders Faculty

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About

Dr. Horev holds a Ph.D. in Neuroscience from the Technion Faculty of Medicine and has graduated with honors in Health Sciences from the Department of Communication Disorders at the Tel Aviv University Faculty of Medicine.

Currently, she serves as a Speech Therapist in the Cochlear Implant program at the Tel Aviv Sourasky Medical Center.

Her research primarily focuses on speech perception across various populations and the associated brain activity.

Teaching Areas

Introduction to Speech Science, Signal Processing Lab, Psychoacoustics, Anatomy and Physiology of the Auditory System (Ultra-Orthodox program).

Selected Publications

Horev N. Pratt H., Processing of Temporal and Spectral Cues in the Human Brain during Perception of Speech and Corresponding Non-Speech Signals, In prep. 2015.
Horev N., Most T., Pratt H., Categorical Perception of Speech (VOT) and Analogous Non-Speech (FOT) Signals: Behavioral and Electrophysiological Correlates, Ear and Hearing, 28:111-128, 2007.
Pratt H., Sinai A., Laufer I., Horev N., Time Course of Auditory Cortex Activation During Speech Processing. Journ. Basic Clin. Physiol. Pharmacol. 13:135-149, 2002.
Horev N., Most T., Pratt H., Brain Activation in Response to Speech and Non-Speech Signals. Journal of Basic & Clinical Physiology & Pharmacology, 13:172, 2002.
Horev N., Most T., Pratt, H., Categorical Perception of Temporal Aspects of Speech and Non-Speech Stimuli. Journal of Basic & Clinical Physiology & Pharmacology, 14:207, 2003.
Horev, N., Pratt, H.,PLASTICITY IN AUDITORY PERCEPTION: EXPOSURE TO THE SPEECH NATURE OF SINE-WAVE STIMULI MODIFIES BRAIN ACTIVITY. The Israel Society for Neuroscience (ISFN) Annual Meeting, Eilat, 2012.
Horev, N., Pratt, H.,SPEECH IS SPECIAL: PERCEIVING IDENTICAL STIMULI AS SPEECH AND NON-SPEECH MODIFIES BRAIN ACTIVITY. Variance and Invariants in Brain and Behavior,. Haifa, 2012.
Horev, N., Pratt, H.,PROCESSING OF TEMPORAL AND SPECTRAL CUES IN THE HUMAN BRAIN DURING PERCEPTION OF SPEECH AND CORRESPONDING NON-SPEECH SIGNALS. Israel Society of auditory research (ISAR) Annual Meeting, Tel-Aviv, 2012.
Horev, N., Putter-Katz, H., Pratt, H.CATEGORICAL PERCEPTION OF SINE-WAVE-SPEECH BASED ON TEMPORAL AND SPECTRAL CUES. The 11th congress of the European Federation of Audiology Societies (EFAS), Budapest, Hungary, 2013.
Putter-Katz, H., Horev, N., Pratt, H., AUDITORY TEMPORAL AND SPECTRAL PROCESSING AND SPEECH PERCEPTION IN NOISE OF OLDER PEOPLE. The 11th congress of the European Federation of Audiology Societies (EFAS), Budapest, Hungary, 2013.
Horev, N., Pratt, H., PLASTICITY IN AUDITORY PERCEPTION: EXPOSURE TO THE SPEECH NATURE OF SINE-WAVE STIMULI MODIFIES BRAIN ACTIVITY. 4th International Symposium on Auditory and Audiological Research ISAAR, Nyborg Strand, Denmark, 2013.
Pratt,H., Horev,N., Starr,A., Bleich,N., Mittelman,N.,ARTICULATION PLACE, VOICING, AND SETTING AFFECT THE SPATIOTEMPORAL DISTRIBUTION OF SPEECH PROCESSING. 4th International Symposium on Auditory and Audiological Research ISAAR, Nyborg Strand, Denmark, 2013.
Horev, N., Putter-Katz, H., Pratt, H.AUDITORY TEMPORAL AND SPECTRAL PROCESSING AND SPEECH PERCEPTION IN NOISE OF OLDER PEOPLE. The annual meeting of the Israeli Speech, Hearing and Language Association (ISHLA), Tel-Aviv, 2014.
Horev, N., Pratt, H., Processing of Temporal and Spectral Cues in the Human Brain during Perception of Speech and Corresponding Non-Speech signals.The annual meeting of the Israeli Speech, Hearing and Language Association (ISHLA), Tel-Aviv, 2015.