He received his Ph.D. from New York University and was a visiting fellow at Harvard University and at the Ecole Normale Superieure (Paris) before joining the faculty of Johns Hopkins. Halberda’s work focuses on the origins of logical reasoning in children and on the connection between mind and world required by visual attention and memory. He has a rich interdisciplinary background including undergraduate degrees in Philosophy, Psychology, Biochemistry, and Physical Chemistry and has continuing collaborations with both philosophers and linguists.