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Stanislas Dehaene

Stanislas Dehaene

@standehaene.bsky.social

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Cognitive neuroscientist.
Professor at College de France in Paris.
Head of the NeuroSpin brain imaging facility in Saclay.
President of the Scientific Council of the French national education ministry (CSEN)

Stanislas Dehaene is a French author and cognitive neuroscientist whose research centers on a number of topics, including numerical cognition, the neural basis of reading and the neural correlates of consciousness. As of 2017, he is a professor at the Collège de France and, since 1989, the director of INSERM Unit 562, "Cognitive Neuroimaging". .. more

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Stanislas Dehaene @standehaene.bsky.social · 8d

This was a fabulous, once in a lifetime colloquium -- and now the videos are available in high quality on the College de France web site @college-de-france.fr
www.college-de-france.fr/fr/agenda/co...
With talks by Edvard Moser, Nancy Kanwisher, Liz Spelke, Manuela Piazza, Luca Bonatti and more!

Stanislas Dehaene @standehaene.bsky.social · 9d

"Intuitions of mathematical curves in young children's drawings"
In this new paper from the lab, Lorenzo Ciccione, Marie Lubineau, Theo Morfoisse and I show that 5 and 6 year olds already possess intuitions of linearity, curvature, period and compositionality.
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

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Stanislas Dehaene @standehaene.bsky.social · 13d

Evidence for graded semantic tuning curves in human concept cells.
Lovely work with Katharina Karkowski, Florian Mormann, Yair Lakretz, Marcel Kehl et al.

Marcel S. Kehl @mskehl.bsky.social · 14d

🚨Preprint: Semantic Tuning of Single Neurons in the Human Medial Temporal Lobe

1/8: How do human neurons encode meaning?
In this work, led by Katharina Karkowski, we recorded hundreds of human MTL neurons to study semantic coding in the human brain:

doi.org/10.1101/2025...

Semantic Tuning of Single Neurons in the Human Medial Temporal Lobe

The Medial Temporal Lobe (MTL) is key to human cognition, supporting memory, emotional processing, navigation, and semantic coding. Rare direct human MTL recordings revealed concept cells, which were ...

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Marcel S. Kehl @mskehl.bsky.social · 14d

🚨Preprint: Semantic Tuning of Single Neurons in the Human Medial Temporal Lobe

1/8: How do human neurons encode meaning?
In this work, led by Katharina Karkowski, we recorded hundreds of human MTL neurons to study semantic coding in the human brain:

doi.org/10.1101/2025...

Semantic Tuning of Single Neurons in the Human Medial Temporal Lobe

The Medial Temporal Lobe (MTL) is key to human cognition, supporting memory, emotional processing, navigation, and semantic coding. Rare direct human MTL recordings revealed concept cells, which were ...

Reposted by Stanislas Dehaene

Gavin Buckingham @drgbuckingham.bsky.social · 16d

For your enjoyment (by @jagarikin)

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Norbert Maïonchi-Pino @nmpprorech.bsky.social · 19d

Agrawal, A., & Dehaene, S. (2025). From retinotopic to ordinal coding: Dissecting the cortical stages of visual word recognition. PNAS

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@pnas.org

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Stanislas Dehaene @standehaene.bsky.social · 19d

A new paper from the lab, using 7T fMRI and MEG to shed light on how we read, specifically how the visual system encodes strings of letters and moves from retinotopic to ordinal neural codes.
www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

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Stanislas Dehaene @standehaene.bsky.social · Sep 29

Our fantastic colloquium starts this Wednesday October 1st at Collège de France.
Open to all, no registration required.
Merci @college-de-france.fr

Collège de France @college-de-france.fr · Sep 23

#Neurologie
🧠 « Seeing the Mind, Educating the Brain »
📌 Colloque en anglais organisé par le Pr @standehaene.bsky.social, titulaire de la chaire #Psychologie cognitive expérimentale.
⏰ 1er → 3 octobre 2025
👉 https://www.college-de-france.fr/fr/agenda/colloque/seeing-the-mind-educating-the-brain

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Collège de France @college-de-france.fr · Sep 23

#Neurologie
🧠 « Seeing the Mind, Educating the Brain »
📌 Colloque en anglais organisé par le Pr @standehaene.bsky.social, titulaire de la chaire #Psychologie cognitive expérimentale.
⏰ 1er → 3 octobre 2025
👉 https://www.college-de-france.fr/fr/agenda/colloque/seeing-the-mind-educating-the-brain

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Brent Toderian @brenttoderian.bsky.social · Sep 21

“In Finland, the number of homeless people has fallen sharply. Those affected receive a small apartment & counselling with no preconditions. 4 out of 5 people affected make their way back into a stable life. And all this is CHEAPER than accepting homelessness.”

It costs a lot less to house people.

Finland ends homelessness and provides shelter for all in need - scoop.me

In Finland, the number of homeless people has fallen sharply. Why? The country applies the "Housing First" concept agains homelessness.

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Collège de France @college-de-france.fr · Sep 10

#Art #Culture
🖼️ "Orsay vu par le Collège de France"
🖼️ Dialogues entre des professeurs Collège de France et les conservatrices et conservateurs du
@museeorsay.bsky.social.
🖼️ Avec les Prs Anne Cheng, Jean-Jacques Hublin, Henry Laurens et @standehaene.bsky.social .
👉 https://tinyurl.com/mvhdnw6v

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Franck Ramus @franckramus.bsky.social · Sep 10

Les capacités de concentration humaine sont-elles tombées en-dessous de celle d'un poisson rouge?
Non, d'après une méta-analyse de 287 études sur 21000 participants dans 32 pays, elles sont restées stables de 2000 à 2020 (chez les enfants, et ont légèrement progressé chez les adultes).

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Vadim Axelrod @neurovadim.bsky.social · Aug 4

Thank you! @college-de-france.fr archive, permitting to watch your lectures recorded 15 years ago, is truly outstanding.

Stanislas Dehaene @standehaene.bsky.social · Aug 4

All lectures will be recorded and made available a few days later on the wonderful @college-de-france.fr web site:
www.college-de-france.fr/en/chair/sta...

Stanislas Dehaene - Experimental Cognitive Psychology | Collège de France

www.college-de-france.fr

Stanislas Dehaene @standehaene.bsky.social · Aug 4

It will be open to all, like all College de France events. @college-de-france.fr Registration will be needed only for the second and third days.

Stanislas Dehaene @standehaene.bsky.social · Aug 4

An important upcoming meeting:
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Jenni vanRees @jennivanrees.bsky.social · Dec 7

Just watched @standehaene.bsky.social keynote from The Reading League - such a fascinating discussion of the brain and learning to read. youtu.be/DPf2Sf6d5Hk?...

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Franck Ramus @franckramus.bsky.social · Dec 19

MOOC "la psychologie pour les enseignants"
Fun Mooc, ENS- PSL et Réseau Canopé
Pour remédier à l'éparpillement des sites, voici un lien unique pour accéder à toutes les vidéos, parcours et ressources:

MOOC psycho pour enseignants | Linktree

Tous les liens!

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PsyArXivBot @psyarxivbot.bsky.social · Dec 27

Sensitivity to geometric shape regularity emerges independently of vision.: http://osf.io/a6rgm/

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Collège de France @college-de-france.fr · Jan 15

#Science
"La perception des graphiques : un nouvel exemple de recyclage neuronal"
📌 Le cours du Pr @standehaene.bsky.social, titulaire de la chaire #Psychologie cognitive expérimentale, commence la semaine prochaine.
⏰ 24 janvier → 28 février 2025
👉 www.college-de-france.fr/fr/agenda/co...

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Paris-Saclay Institute of Neuroscience @neuropsi.bsky.social · Mar 3

⚠️2025 NeuroPSI call for new group leaders
▶️ We are open to a wide range of research topics, from molecules to cognition and from embryo to adult.
▶️ We offer generous lab and office space.
▶️ Junior and mid-career scientists: apply before May the 30th!

Learn more: neuropsi.cnrs.fr/ao2025/

Offres nouvelles équipes - Institut des Neurosciences Paris‑Saclay

Appel pour de nouveaux chefs d'équipes à l'Institut NeuroPSI.

neuropsi.cnrs.fr

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Ulysse Klatzmann @ulysse-klatzmann.bsky.social · Mar 18

What happens in the brain when a stimulus enters consciousness?

We built a biophysical model of the cortex to zoom in to synaptic interactions and zoom out to whole-cortex neural dynamics during perception.

It revealed a key mechanism for ignition🧵...
www.cell.com/cell-reports...

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The Rockefeller University @rockefeller.edu · Mar 26

Last week, neuroscientist @standehaene.bsky.social received the 2025 Lewis Thomas Prize. He was honored with Rockefeller’s prestigious science writing award for his collection of books that demystify the inner workings of the mind. Congratulations!

Stanislas Dehaene @standehaene.bsky.social · Jul 23

If you are in Paris on October 1-3 : we are organizing a fantastic cognitive neuroscience conference at Collège de France, on topics ranging from language to math, education and consciousness, with many of my favorite scientists !
Full program here:
www.unicog.org/seeing-the-m...

Seeing the Mind, Educating the Brain

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Maxence Pajot @maxencepajot.bsky.social · Jul 15

Some numbers seem to show up everywhere. Think of 10, 12, 24, 36...
Others—like 26 or 34—don’t get the same attention.Why? In our new paper with @standehaene.bsky.social and @mathiassablemeyer.bsky.social, we argue it's because of how the mind builds number concepts.
🧵
doi.org/10.1016/j.co...

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Alireza Karami | علیرضا کرمی @alirezakr.bsky.social · Jul 14

New paper out in @commsbio.nature.com!
@elicastaldi.bsky.social, Evelyn Eger, @manpiazza.bsky.social

🔢 We reveal how the brain represents numerosity across the entire visual system, from early visual areas to high-level association cortices.

👇 A thread
🔗 www.nature.com/articles/s42...

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samuel mehr @mehr.nz · Jul 12

I love the audacity of some nature/science papers on psych

"you're wondering about nature v nurture? cool we studied ALL THE KIDS IN FRANCE"

(upshot is that sex differences in math performance are driven by schooling, not age)

www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Title and abstract of the paper linked in OP

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Mary Elizabeth Sutherland @meharpist.bsky.social · Jul 12

I was going through my open tabs and realized I forgot to highlight this great News & Views in @nature.com by John List and Andrew Simon discussing @standehaene.bsky.social et al's paper showing that a gender gap in math arises soon after children begin school 🧪 www.nature.com/articles/d41...

Boys surpass girls in maths in the first year of school

A gender gap in mathematical ability arises shortly after children begin school — irrespective of the type of school they attend and their socio-economic background.

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