Justin Halberda

8.8k total citations · 4 hit papers
101 papers, 6.1k citations indexed

About

Justin Halberda is a scholar working on Statistics and Probability, Developmental and Educational Psychology and Education. According to data from OpenAlex, Justin Halberda has authored 101 papers receiving a total of 6.1k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 67 papers in Statistics and Probability, 42 papers in Developmental and Educational Psychology and 40 papers in Education. Recurrent topics in Justin Halberda's work include Cognitive and developmental aspects of mathematical skills (67 papers), Mathematics Education and Teaching Techniques (39 papers) and Reading and Literacy Development (27 papers). Justin Halberda is often cited by papers focused on Cognitive and developmental aspects of mathematical skills (67 papers), Mathematics Education and Teaching Techniques (39 papers) and Reading and Literacy Development (27 papers). Justin Halberda collaborates with scholars based in United States, Canada and Netherlands. Justin Halberda's co-authors include Lisa Feigenson, Michèle M. M. Mazzocco, Melissa E. Libertus, Darko Odic, Ryan Ly, Jeremy Wilmer, Laura Germine, Daniel Q. Naiman, Jeffrey Lidz and Paul M. Pietroski and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences and PLoS ONE.

In The Last Decade

Justin Halberda

94 papers receiving 5.9k 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. Individual differences in non-verbal number acuity correlate with maths achievement
    2008 1.0k citations Justin Halberda, Michèle M. M. Mazzocco et al. profile →
  2. Developmental change in the acuity of the "number sense": The approximate number system in 3-, 4-, 5-, and 6-year-olds and adults.
    2008 662 citations Justin Halberda, Lisa Feigenson profile →
  3. Impaired Acuity of the Approximate Number System Underlies Mathematical Learning Disability (Dyscalculia)
    2011 414 citations Michèle M. M. Mazzocco, Lisa Feigenson et al. Child Development profile →
  4. Preschool acuity of the approximate number system correlates with school math ability
    2011 382 citations Melissa E. Libertus, Lisa Feigenson et al. Developmental Science profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

Peers by citation overlap · career bar shows stage (early→late) cites · hero ref

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Justin Halberda United States 34 4.7k 3.6k 3.1k 1.5k 568 101 6.1k
Lisa Feigenson United States 32 6.4k 1.4× 4.6k 1.3× 4.4k 1.4× 2.1k 1.4× 746 1.3× 74 8.2k
Elizabeth M. Brannon United States 54 7.0k 1.5× 4.4k 1.2× 3.8k 1.2× 3.2k 2.2× 817 1.4× 138 8.9k
Véronique Izard France 19 2.8k 0.6× 1.7k 0.5× 1.6k 0.5× 1.3k 0.9× 386 0.7× 43 3.7k
Bert Reynvoet Belgium 35 3.8k 0.8× 2.6k 0.7× 2.2k 0.7× 2.0k 1.4× 639 1.1× 125 4.9k
Brian Butterworth United Kingdom 52 5.6k 1.2× 3.3k 0.9× 5.0k 1.6× 4.3k 3.0× 1.7k 3.0× 128 9.5k
Jessica F. Cantlon United States 28 2.2k 0.5× 1.3k 0.4× 1.4k 0.4× 1.5k 1.0× 320 0.6× 67 3.3k
Pierre Pica France 10 1.4k 0.3× 929 0.3× 817 0.3× 464 0.3× 262 0.5× 31 2.0k
Kelly S. Mix United States 31 2.3k 0.5× 1.8k 0.5× 1.6k 0.5× 352 0.2× 384 0.7× 61 3.4k
Alain Content Belgium 29 748 0.2× 748 0.2× 1.5k 0.5× 1.1k 0.8× 679 1.2× 64 2.4k
John E. Opfer United States 23 1.8k 0.4× 1.6k 0.5× 1.4k 0.5× 412 0.3× 290 0.5× 59 2.8k

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All Works

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Cesana‐Arlotti, Nicolò, et al.. (2025). Logical Concepts of (Im)possibility Guide Young Children's Decision‐Making. Developmental Science. 28(5). e70044–e70044.
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Firestone, Chaz, et al.. (2025). Number adaptation survives spatial displacement. Current Biology. 35(23). 5923–5929.e3.
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Topaz, Chad M., et al.. (2024). Modeling Magnitude Discrimination: Effects of Internal Precision and Attentional Weighting of Feature Dimensions. Cognitive Science. 48(2). e13409–e13409. 2 indexed citations
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Cesana‐Arlotti, Nicolò, et al.. (2020). An investigation of the origin of logical quantification: infant's and adult's representations of collective and distributive actions in complex visual scenes.. Cognitive Science. 1 indexed citations
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Thompson, Diego, et al.. (2020). Location- and object-based attention enhance number estimation. Attention Perception & Psychophysics. 83(1). 7–17. 10 indexed citations
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Halberda, Justin, et al.. (2017). Approximate number sense correlates with math performance in gifted adolescents. Acta Psychologica. 176. 78–84. 31 indexed citations
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Libertus, Melissa E., Darko Odic, Lisa Feigenson, & Justin Halberda. (2016). The precision of mapping between number words and the approximate number system predicts children’s formal math abilities. Journal of Experimental Child Psychology. 150. 207–226. 50 indexed citations
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Im, Hee Yeon, Sheng-hua Zhong, & Justin Halberda. (2015). Grouping by proximity and the visual impression of approximate number in random dot arrays. Vision Research. 126. 291–307. 30 indexed citations
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Feigenson, Lisa, Melissa E. Libertus, & Justin Halberda. (2013). Links Between the Intuitive Sense of Number and Formal Mathematics Ability. Child Development Perspectives. 7(2). 74–79. 167 indexed citations
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Ly, Ryan, et al.. (2012). Measuring the Coefficient of Variation with continuously varying arrays. Journal of Vision. 12(9). 712–712. 1 indexed citations
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Wellwood, Alexis, Darko Odic, Justin Halberda, & Jeffrey Lidz. (2012). Choosing quantity over quality: syntax guides interpretive preferences for novel superlatives. Cognitive Science. 34(34). 1126–1130.
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Halberda, Justin, Paul M. Pietroski, Tim B. Hunter, et al.. (2012). More & Most: spatial vision affects word understandings on an iPad. Journal of Vision. 12(9). 561–561. 1 indexed citations
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Odic, Darko, Paul M. Pietroski, Tim B. Hunter, Jeffrey Lidz, & Justin Halberda. (2012). Young children's understanding of “more” and discrimination of number and surface area.. Journal of Experimental Psychology Learning Memory and Cognition. 39(2). 451–461. 39 indexed citations
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Odic, Darko, Howard S. Hock, & Justin Halberda. (2011). The effect of confidence hysteresis on numerical discrimination. Journal of Vision. 11(11). 985–985. 1 indexed citations
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Halberda, Justin, et al.. (2011). Individual differences in VWM capacity assessed by the flicker task. Journal of Vision. 11(11). 1256–1256. 1 indexed citations
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Mazzocco, Michèle M. M., Lisa Feigenson, & Justin Halberda. (2011). Impaired acuity of the approximate number system underlies mathematical learning disability. Child Development. 27 indexed citations
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Zosh, Jennifer M., Justin Halberda, & Lisa Feigenson. (2011). Memory for multiple visual ensembles in infancy.. Journal of Experimental Psychology General. 140(2). 141–158. 33 indexed citations

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