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Citations
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National Ranking
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Research.com Recognitions

  • 2026 - Research.com Neuroscience in Israel Leader Award
  • 2026 - Research.com Psychology in Israel Leader Award
  • 2025 - Research.com Neuroscience in Israel Leader Award
  • 2025 - Research.com Psychology in Israel Leader Award
  • 2023 - Research.com Neuroscience in Israel Leader Award
  • 2023 - Research.com Psychology in Israel Leader Award
  • 2022 - Research.com Neuroscience in Israel Leader Award
  • 2022 - Research.com Psychology in Israel Leader Award

Overview

Avishai Henik is affiliated with Ben-Gurion University of the Negev in Israel. Their research spans primarily the fields of Psychology and Neuroscience, with notable contributions to Cognitive Neuroscience and Experimental and Cognitive Psychology.

The scientist's work covers several subfields including Statistics and Probability, Social Psychology, and Education. Key research topics involve cognitive and developmental aspects of mathematical skills, neural and behavioral psychology studies, and visual perception and processing mechanisms.

Henik has explored topics such as mathematics education and teaching techniques, reading and literacy development, multisensory perception and integration, as well as decision-making and behavioral economics in published works.

Frequent coauthors in Henik's publications include Ronen Hershman, Dalit Milshtein, Yarden Gliksman, Natali Moyal, and Ilona Glebov-Russinov.

Regular publication venues for their work include Acta Psychologica, Psychological Research, Psychonomic Bulletin & Review, SSRN Electronic Journal, and Scientific Reports.

Selected recent papers are:

  • The contribution of temporal analysis of pupillometry measurements to cognitive research, 2022, Psychological Research
  • Control of response interference: caudate nucleus contributes to selective inhibition, 2020, Scientific Reports
  • Neutral stimuli and pupillometric task conflict, 2020, Psychological Research
  • Math Fluency during Primary School, 2022, Brain Sciences
  • Rumination, emotional intensity and emotional clarity, 2021, Consciousness and Cognition

Best Publications

  • Perceptual Organization and Attention

    Daniel Kahneman;Avishai Henik

  • Is three greater than five: The relation between physical and semantic size in comparison tasks

    Avishai Henik;Joseph Tzelgov

  • SUPPRESSION SITUATIONS IN PSYCHOLOGICAL RESEARCH : DEFINITIONS, IMPLICATIONS, AND APPLICATIONS

    Joseph Tzelgov;Avishai Henik

  • From "sense of number" to "sense of magnitude": The role of continuous magnitudes in numerical cognition.

    Tali Leibovich;Naama Katzin;Maayan Harel;Avishai Henik

  • Competition Between Endogenous and Exogenous Orienting of Visual Attention

    Andrea Berger;Avishai Henik;Robert Rafal

  • Automatic and intentional processing of numerical information

    Joseph Tzelgov;Joachim Meyer;Avishai Henik

  • Inhibition of return in spatial attention: direct evidence for collicular generation.

    Ayelet Sapir;Nachum Soroker;Andrea Berger;Avishai Henik

  • Controlling Stroop effects by manipulating expectations for color words.

    Joseph Tzelgov;Avishai Henik;Jacqueline Berger

  • Developmental Dyscalculia: heterogeneity might not mean different mechanisms

    Orly Rubinsten;Avishai Henik

  • Notation-Dependent and -Independent Representations of Numbers in the Parietal Lobes

    Roi Cohen Kadosh;Roi Cohen Kadosh;Kathrin Cohen Kadosh;Kathrin Cohen Kadosh;Amanda Kaas;Amanda Kaas;Avishai Henik

  • Are numbers special? The comparison systems of the human brain investigated by fMRI.

    Roi Cohen Kadosh;Avishai Henik;Orly Rubinsten;Harald Mohr

  • The Development of Internal Representations of Magnitude and Their Association with Arabic Numerals

    Orly Rubinsten;Avishai Henik;Andrea Berger;Sharon Shahar-Shalev

  • Multidisciplinary perspectives on attention and the development of self-regulation

    Andrea Berger;Ora Kofman;Uri Livneh;Avishai Henik

  • Virtual Dyscalculia Induced by Parietal-Lobe TMS Impairs Automatic Magnitude Processing

    Roi Cohen Kadosh;Roi Cohen Kadosh;Kathrin Cohen Kadosh;Kathrin Cohen Kadosh;Teresa Schuhmann;Amanda Kaas;Amanda Kaas

  • The neurology of inhibition: Integrating controlled and automatic processes.

    Robert Rafal;Avishai Henik

  • Meta-analyses of developmental fMRI studies investigating typical and atypical trajectories of number processing and calculation.

    Liane Kaufmann;Guilherme Wood;Orly Rubinsten;Avishai Henik

  • Controlling Stroop interference: Evidence from a bilingual task.

    Joseph Tzelgov;Avishai Henik;David Leiser

  • Dyscalculia from a developmental and differential perspective

    Liane Kaufmann;Michèle M. Mazzocco;Ann Dowker;Michael von Aster;Michael von Aster;Michael von Aster

  • Auditory imagery from musical notation in expert musicians

    Warren Brodsky;Avishai Henik;Bat Sheva Rubinstein;Moshe Zorman

  • Preliminary evidence of reduced cognitive inhibition in methamphetamine-dependent individuals.

    Ruth Salo;Thomas E Nordahl;Kate Possin;Martin H Leamon

Frequent Co-Authors

Joseph Tzelgov
Joseph Tzelgov Ben-Gurion University of the Negev
Roi Cohen Kadosh
Roi Cohen Kadosh University of Surrey
Kathrin Cohen Kadosh
Kathrin Cohen Kadosh University of Surrey
Thomas E. Nordahl
Thomas E. Nordahl University of California, Davis
Robert D. Rafal
Robert D. Rafal University of Delaware
Lynn C. Robertson
Lynn C. Robertson University of California, Berkeley
David Edmund Johannes Linden
David Edmund Johannes Linden Maastricht University
Vincent Walsh
Vincent Walsh University College London
Gereon R. Fink
Gereon R. Fink University of Cologne
Peter H. Weiss
Peter H. Weiss Forschungszentrum Jülich

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