December, 2015
Michal Icht, PhD
Department of Communication Disorders
Ariel University
Address: 10 Uriel Ofek st., Herzelia, Israel
Date and Place of Birth: 1973, Israel
Cell: +972-52-8844020
E-mail: lmichal@ariel.ac.il
Web site: www.michal-icht.ask4.co.il
Academic Education
2005-2008
PhD, Department of Communication Disorders, Tel Aviv University.
Supervisors: Prof. Daniel Algom (Department of Psychology), Prof.
Liat Kishon-Rabin (Department of Communication Disorders), Dr.
Eran Chajut (Department of Psychology, Open University).
Dissertation Title: Directed Forgetting of words: Reduced Rehearsal or
Response Inhibition.
1997-2001
MA (cum laude), Department of Communication Disorders, Tel Aviv
University. Supervisors: Prof. Daniel Algom (Department of
Psychology), Prof. Hava Muchnik (Department of Communication
Disorders). Thesis Title: The Cross-Modal Stroop Effect: The Role of
Location.
1994-1997
BA, Department of Communication Disorders, Tel Aviv University.
Academic Employment
2010–Current Lecturer (senior staff), Department of Communication Disorders, Ariel
University. Courses taught: Speech and Language Seminar, Voice
Disorders, Articulation and Phonological Disorders, Clinical
Integration in Speech and Language.
Speech and Language Practicum Advisor.
2008-2010
Lecturer (senior staff), Department of Communication Disorders, Ariel
University Center of Samaria. Courses taught: Advanced Audiology,
Clinical Audiology, Child Audiology, Speech perception and
production of Hearing Impaired Children.
Professional (Clinical) Experience
1997-Current Speech and Language pathologist – private clinics, "Maccabi" Health
Services, Evaluation and treatment for children and adults (Language,
speech, voice, and fluency disorders).
Audiologist - Private clinics, "Maccabi" Health services. Hearing
evaluation and rehabilitation.
Professional Activities
Reviewer:
2015
Canadian Journal of Experimental Psychology/Revue canadienne de
psychologie expérimentale
Research Grants
Fostick, L. Icht,
98,000
M. & Zukerman,
NIS
G. (2015)
IDF Medical Corps
The effect of sleep deprivation
and different levels of combatrelated noise on personal
communication
Publications
Icht, M. & Mama, Y. (Submitted). Vocalizing written words or writing vocalized
words: Which production yields higher recall rates? Instructional Science.
Ben-David, B. M. & Icht, M. (Submitted). Oral-diadochokinetic rates for Hebrewspeaking normal aging population: Non-words vs. real-words repetition. International
Journal of Language and Communication Disorders.
Mama, Y. & Icht, M. (Submitted). The role of retrieval in the production effect:
Evidence for costs in free recall. Canadian Journal of Experimental Psychology /
Revue canadienne de psychologie expérimentale.
Mama, Y. & Icht, M. (Submitted). Does Producing a Word Orally Always Lead to
Better Memory? Evidence from Individual-level Analysis of the Production Effect.
Memory.
Ben-David, B. M. & Icht, M. (In Press). Voice changes in real speaking situations
during a day, with and without vocal loading: Assessing call center operators. Journal
of voice.
Icht, M., & Ben-David, B. M. (2015). Oral-Diadochokinetic Rates for HebrewSpeaking Children: Real-Words vs. Non-words Repetition. Clinical Linguistics and
Phonetics. 29(2): 102–114. doi:10.3109/02699206.2014.961650
Icht, M. & Mama, Y. (2015). The production effect in memory: a prominent
mnemonic in children. Journal of Child Language, 42, 1102-1124.
doi:10.1017/S0305000914000713
Mama, Y. & Icht, M. (2014). Auditioning the Distinctiveness Account: Expanding the
Production Effect to the Auditory Modality Reveals the Superiority of Writing over
Vocalizing. Memory (ahead-of-print), 1-16. doi: 10.1080/09658211.2014.986135
Icht, M., Mama, Y. & Algom, D. (2014) The Production Effect in Memory: Multiple
Species of Distinctiveness. Frontiers in Psychology, 5:886.
doi:10.3389/fpsyg.2014.00886
Icht, M., & Ben-David, B. M. (2014). Oral-diadochokinesis rates across languages:
English and Hebrew norms. Journal of Communication Disorders, 48, 27-37.
Ben-Haim, S., Mama, Y., Icht. M, & Algom, D. (1024). Is the emotional Stroop task a
special case of mood induction? Evidence from sustained effects of attention under
emotion. Attention, Perception, & Psychophysics, 76 (1), 81-97
Icht, M., Chajut, E., & Algom, D. (2013). Segregation of study items in memory
determines the magnitude and direction of directed forgetting. British Journal of
Psychology, 104, 83-96.
Hebrew Publications
Icht, M., Brandesdorfer, R., & Eldar, L. (2014). A preliminary report of childhood
dysphonia in Israel: prevalence and acoustic characteristics. The Israeli Journal of
Language, Speech & Hearing Disorders, 33, 87-105 [Hebrew].
Icht, M., Maltz, D &. Korecky, O. (2013). Diadochokinetic rate in young and elderly
Hebrew speakers. The Israeli Journal of Language, Speech & Hearing Disorders, 32,
69-80 [Hebrew].
Icht, M., Sorin, E., &. Smolianov, Y. (2012). The effect of different background
noises on word intelligibility in speech-in-noise test. The Israeli Journal of Language,
Speech & Hearing Disorders, 31, 51-60 [Hebrew].
Oral Presentations
1. The effect of learning modality and auditory feedback on word memory task:
cochlear implanted vs normal hearing adults - Paper presented at the American
Cochlear Implant Alliance (CI2015 DC), Washington, USA (2015).
2. Individual Differences in the Production Effect in Memory - Paper presented at
the 2nd Conference on Cognition Research of the Israeli Society for Cognitive
Psychology, Akko, Israel (2015).
3. The Production Effect in Memory: A Prominent Mnemonic in Children - Paper
presented at the 51st annual conference of the Israeli Speech Hearing and
Language Association (ISHLA), Tel Aviv, Israel (2015).
4. Individual Differences in the Production Effect in Memory - Paper presented at
the 30th Annual Meeting of the International Society for Psychophysics - Fechner
Day, Lund, Sweden (2014).
5. Oral-diadochokinesis rates across languages: English and Hebrew norms - Paper
presented at the 50th annual conference of the Israeli Speech Hearing and
Language Association (ISHLA), Tel Aviv, Israel (2014).
6. The impact of Distinctiveness on the Production Effect – Paper presented at the
49th annual conference of the Israeli Speech Hearing and Language Association
(ISHLA), Tel Aviv, Israel (2013).
7. The effect of semantic and phonological relationship between study words on
memory – Paper presented at the 48th annual conference of the Israeli Speech
Hearing and Language Association (ISHLA), Tel Aviv, Israel (2012).
8. The effect of different Signal-to-Noise Ratios on the perception of words and nonword – Paper presented at the 47th annual conference of the Israeli Speech Hearing
and Language Association (ISHLA), Tel Aviv, Israel (2011).
9. Directed forgetting of words: Reduced rehearsal or response inhibition - Paper
presented at the 45th annual conference of the Israeli Speech Hearing and
Language Association (ISHLA), Ramat Gan, Israel (2009).
Poster Presentations
1. Auditioning the Production Effect: Vocalizing is not Special. The 1st Conference
on Cognition Research of the Israeli Society for Cognitive Psychology, Akko,
Israel (2014).
2. A Mood Induction Perspective of the Emotional Stroop Effect. The 1st Conference
on Cognition Research of the Israeli Society for Cognitive Psychology, Akko,
Israel (2014).
Invited Lectures
1. The auditory system – sensation and perception - Oral presentation (English),
Communication, Aging and Neuropsychology Lab (CAN lab), School of
Psychology, Interdisciplinary Center (IDC) Herzliya, Israel (2013).
2. Periodontics and Articulation – Clinical Implications, Faculty Seminar,
Department of Periodontology, School of Dental Medicine, Tel Aviv University,
Israel (2013).
3. Later language development - Oral presentation, the Educational and Treatment
Intervention Programs - 13th annual conference, Jerusalem College, Bayit Vagan,
Jerusalem, Israel (2011).