Avishai Henik

15.5k total citations · 1 hit paper
297 papers, 11.1k citations indexed

About

Avishai Henik is a scholar working on Cognitive Neuroscience, Statistics and Probability and Experimental and Cognitive Psychology. According to data from OpenAlex, Avishai Henik has authored 297 papers receiving a total of 11.1k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 191 papers in Cognitive Neuroscience, 97 papers in Statistics and Probability and 94 papers in Experimental and Cognitive Psychology. Recurrent topics in Avishai Henik's work include Neural and Behavioral Psychology Studies (107 papers), Cognitive and developmental aspects of mathematical skills (94 papers) and Visual perception and processing mechanisms (63 papers). Avishai Henik is often cited by papers focused on Neural and Behavioral Psychology Studies (107 papers), Cognitive and developmental aspects of mathematical skills (94 papers) and Visual perception and processing mechanisms (63 papers). Avishai Henik collaborates with scholars based in Israel, United States and United Kingdom. Avishai Henik's co-authors include Joseph Tzelgov, Orly Rubinsten, Roi Cohen Kadosh, Robert D. Rafal, Noga Cohen, Tali Leibovich, Andrea Berger, Eyal Kalanthroff, Noam Weinbach and Liat Goldfarb and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature Communications, Neuron and Psychological Bulletin.

In The Last Decade

Avishai Henik

287 papers receiving 10.8k citations

Hit Papers

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What are hit papers?

Hit papers significantly outperform the citation benchmark for their cohort. A paper qualifies if it has ≥500 total citations, achieves ≥1.5× the top-1% citation threshold for papers in the same subfield and year (this is the minimum needed to enter the top 1%, not the average within it), or reaches the top citation threshold in at least one of its specific research topics.

  1. From “sense of number” to “sense of magnitude”: The role of continuous magnitudes in numerical cognition
    2016 315 citations Naama Katzin, Avishai Henik et al. profile →

Author Peers

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Author Last Decade Papers Cites
Avishai Henik 6.7k 3.9k 3.0k 2.8k 2.2k 297 11.1k
Andrew R. A. Conway 8.7k 1.3× 1.0k 0.3× 6.5k 2.2× 4.1k 1.5× 690 0.3× 84 13.9k
Amy Howerter 5.4k 0.8× 861 0.2× 3.4k 1.2× 3.1k 1.1× 1.3k 0.6× 25 11.0k
Tom Verguts 4.8k 0.7× 2.3k 0.6× 1.3k 0.4× 1.7k 0.6× 1.2k 0.6× 172 6.8k
Alexander Witzki 5.4k 0.8× 871 0.2× 3.5k 1.2× 3.2k 1.1× 1.3k 0.6× 21 11.2k
Pawel Skudlarski 12.8k 1.9× 1.5k 0.4× 2.7k 0.9× 4.0k 1.4× 681 0.3× 88 17.6k
Meredyth Daneman 7.0k 1.0× 934 0.2× 3.5k 1.2× 5.4k 2.0× 884 0.4× 70 10.8k
Marc Brysbaert 13.9k 2.1× 1.7k 0.4× 6.8k 2.3× 11.9k 4.3× 1.2k 0.5× 267 23.5k
Zoltán Dienes 6.0k 0.9× 649 0.2× 2.0k 0.7× 2.8k 1.0× 637 0.3× 225 10.3k
Heinz Wimmer 7.1k 1.1× 3.1k 0.8× 1.6k 0.5× 12.9k 4.6× 3.6k 1.6× 102 15.6k
Torkel Klingberg 8.0k 1.2× 1.2k 0.3× 4.6k 1.6× 3.4k 1.2× 954 0.4× 108 14.1k

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Fields of papers citing papers by Avishai Henik

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Avishai Henik

This figure shows the co-authorship network connecting the top 25 collaborators of Avishai Henik. A scholar is included among the top collaborators of Avishai Henik based on the total number of citations received by their joint publications. Widths of edges represent the number of papers authors have co-authored together. Node borders signify the number of papers an author published with Avishai Henik. Avishai Henik is excluded from the visualization to improve readability, since they are connected to all nodes in the network.

All Works

20 of 20 papers shown
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Henik, Avishai, et al.. (2025). Categorized Affective Pictures Database; tested on adults - rated appropriate for kids. Acta Psychologica. 259. 105321–105321.
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Henik, Avishai, et al.. (2024). Endogenous attention modulates automaticity of number processing. Psychonomic Bulletin & Review. 31(4). 1579–1587.
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Katzin, Naama, et al.. (2024). Adaptive modes of attention: Evidence from attentional networks. Cortex. 184. 58–72.
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Henik, Avishai, et al.. (2024). What is high rumination?. Acta Psychologica. 248. 104331–104331. 4 indexed citations
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Henik, Avishai, et al.. (2024). The role of emotion recognition in reappraisal affordances. Psychological Research. 88(5). 1629–1636. 1 indexed citations
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Hershman, Ronen, et al.. (2024). Evidence for Two Types of Task Conflict in a Color-Digit Stroop Task. Journal of Cognition. 7(1). 54–54. 1 indexed citations
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Hershman, Ronen, et al.. (2024). A color-digit Stroop task shows numerical influence on numerosity processing. Memory & Cognition. 53(4). 1055–1066. 1 indexed citations
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Hershman, Ronen, et al.. (2024). Insights from Eye Blinks into the Cognitive Processes Involved in Visual Word Recognition. Journal of Cognition. 7(1). 14–14. 2 indexed citations
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Ashkenazi, Sarit, et al.. (2022). Understanding Estimations of Magnitudes: An fMRI Investigation. Brain Sciences. 12(1). 104–104. 2 indexed citations
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Henik, Avishai, et al.. (2022). Math Fluency during Primary School. Brain Sciences. 12(3). 371–371. 13 indexed citations
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Hershman, Ronen, et al.. (2022). BGU‐MF: Ben‐Gurion University Math Fluency test. Applied Cognitive Psychology. 36(2). 293–305. 5 indexed citations
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Salti, Moti, et al.. (2021). Shaping the way from the unknown to the known: The role of convex hull shape in numerical comparisons. Cognition. 217. 104893–104893. 2 indexed citations
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Arend, Isabel, et al.. (2020). Control of response interference: caudate nucleus contributes to selective inhibition. Scientific Reports. 10(1). 20977–20977. 27 indexed citations
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Henik, Avishai, et al.. (2018). Conceptual size in developmental dyscalculia and dyslexia.. Neuropsychology. 32(2). 190–198. 7 indexed citations
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Henik, Avishai, et al.. (2018). Categorized Affective Pictures Database (CAP-D). Journal of Cognition. 1(1). 41–41. 17 indexed citations
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Kalanthroff, Eyal, et al.. (2015). WHAT SHOULD I (NOT) DO? CONTROL OVER IRRELEVANT TASKS IN OBSESSIVE-COMPULSIVE DISORDER PATIENTS. 2 indexed citations
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Gabay, Yafit, Shai Gabay, Avishai Henik, Rachel Schiff, & Marlene Behrmann. (2015). Word and line bisection in typical and impaired readers and a cross-language comparison. Brain and Language. 150. 143–152. 6 indexed citations
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Weinbach, Noam & Avishai Henik. (2014). The Role of Alerting in Modulating Perceptual Saliency. Journal of Vision. 14(10). 638–638. 1 indexed citations
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Kellogg, W. N., et al.. (1984). Constraints on semantic priming. Bulletin of the Psychonomic Society. 22(4). 274. 4 indexed citations
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Stern, Eliahu, Joseph Tzelgov, & Avishai Henik. (1983). DRIVING EFFORTS AND URBAN ROUTE CHOICE. Logistics and transportation review. 19(1). 3 indexed citations

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