ראש החוג להפרעות בתקשורת
פרופסור מן המניין, החוג להפרעות בתקשורת, בית הספר למקצועות הבריאות, הפקולטה לרפואה
אודיולוגית בכירה, מכון השמיעה והדיבור, המרכז הרפואי ע"ש שיבא, תל השומר
ראש החוג להפרעות בתקשורת
פרופסור מן המניין, החוג להפרעות בתקשורת, בית הספר למקצועות הבריאות, הפקולטה לרפואה
אודיולוגית בכירה, מכון השמיעה והדיבור, המרכז הרפואי ע"ש שיבא, תל השומר
Hearing Science and Clinical Audiology
One of our main research areas is related to the effect of noise on speech perception, in young, middle-aged and elderly populations. A major complaint of hearing impaired and normal hearing adults is the difficulty to understand speech in the presence of noise. Our attempt to address this challenging problem encompasses several aspects:
Another topic in our research is the estimation of the potential risk for hearing loss as a result of listening to music with Personal Listening Devices (PLDs). We are studying the function of the efferent auditory system in normal and pathological populations such as children and adults with Auditory Processing Disorders and Childhood Selective Mutism.
Cochlear Implants are another area of research interest. In particular we are studying the characteristic features of the electrical nerve response in cochlear implant recipients.
C. Muchnik, N. Amir, E. Shabtai, R. Kaplan-Neeman, Preferred listening levels to personal devices in young teenagers: self reports and physical measurements. International Journal of Audiology , 51:287-293, 2012
R. Kaplan-Neeman, C. Muchnik, M. Hildesheimer, Y. Henkin. Hearing aid satisfaction and use in the advanced digital era. Laryngoscope, 122: 2029-2036, 2012
N. Fink, M. Furst, C. Muchnik. Improving word recognition in noise of hearing impaired subjects with a single – channel cochlear noise reduction algorithm. Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, 132: 1718-1731, 2012
C. Muchnik, D. Ari-Even Roth, M. Hildesheimer, M. Arie, Y. Bar-Haim, Y. Henkin (2013) Abnormalities in auditory efferent activities in children with selective mutism. Audiology & Neurotology, 18:353-61, 2013.
Y. Shapira, L. Migirov, Y. Yaar-Soffer, C. Muchnik, M. Hildesheimer, Y. Henkin. Pain in cochlear implant recipients – An uncommon, yet serious consequence of cochlear implantation. The Larynogoscope 125:1946-1951, 2015.
Y. Henkin, Y. Yaar-Soffer, M. Steinberg, C. Muchnik. Neural correlates of auditory-cogntive processing in older adults with cochlear implants. Audiology & Neurotology 19:S21-6, 2014.