Stanislas Dehaene
standehaene.bsky.social
Stanislas Dehaene
@standehaene.bsky.social

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

Neuroscience 52%
Psychology 20%

Evidence-based education and the science of reading yield wonderful results :

These Three Red States Are the Best Hope in Schooling www.nytimes.com/2026/02/09/o...
Opinion | These Three Red States Are the Best Hope in Schooling
www.nytimes.com

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A feature in Nature examines the research about aphantasia, which is the experience of people with no mental imagery, and how it could offer a window into consciousness. #Neuroskyence 🧪
Many people have no mental imagery. What’s going on in their brains?
People with aphantasia are offering a window into consciousness.
go.nature.com

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The CNRS (@cnrs.fr) and the Ecole Normale Supérieure/PSL University (@normalesup.bsky.social) is launching a 5-year International Research Project (IRP) with University College London (@ucl.ac.uk) on human perception and consciousness.

www.ucl.ac.uk/global/news/...
UCL launches landmark European collaboration on perception science
UCL is working with top French partners CNRS and ENS – PSL on a major European research initiative to advance understanding of human perception and consciousness.
www.ucl.ac.uk

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New Journal Club: Neural manifolds are maturing from visualization trick to biological claim. But if population activity lives on low-dimensional manifolds, what constrains the geometry?
Manifolds, Dendrites, and the Geometry of Neural Computation
The population doctrine—the view that populations, not individual neurons, constitute the fundamental unit of computation—has been gaining ground for years.
open.substack.com

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Ever wondered how the Dalmatian Dog effect works?

The human brain can quickly learn from a single experience and generalize it to related experiences — an impressive feat so far not matched by AI.

Our new paper in @natcomms.nature.com reveals how this works.
www.nature.com/articles/s41...

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Faut-il encore faire redoubler les élèves?
Nouvelle note du Conseil scientifique de l'éducation nationale, qui fait le point sur les recherches sur les effets du redoublement:
www.reseau-canope.fr/fileadmin/us...
www.reseau-canope.fr

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Learning to read is a key stage in education that deeply changes the brain.

@standehaene.bsky.social, Chair of Experimental Cognitive Psychology at the @college-de-france.fr, discusses the neuroscience of reading at our Annual Lecture.

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www.youtube.com/watch?v=eqHU...
SWC Lecture 2025 - Professor Stanislas Dehaene
YouTube video by Sainsbury Wellcome Centre
www.youtube.com

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Mon nouveau livre "Le rectangle de Lascaux : et Homo sapiens inventa la géométrie" sortira en libraire le 28 janvier.
J'y aborde l'origine des mathématiques depuis la préhistoire jusqu'à nos jours ; c'est un peu la suite de mon tout premier livre, "La Bosse des Maths". Quelques explications:

Il est arrivé…

« Le Rectangle de Lascaux »rencontre le triangle des Éditions Odile Jacob !

Sortie en librairie mercredi 28 janvier.

@editionsodilejacob.bsky.social @cnrs.fr @inserm.fr @college-de-france.fr @cedricvillani.bsky.social @davidbessis.bsky.social

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Si les mathématiques et leurs origines vous intéressent, je vous donne rendez-vous le 28 janvier en librairie.
(Spoiler: parmi les peintures de la grotte de Lascaux figure effectivement un mystérieux rectangle...)

La recherche du code neuronal qui fait de nous une espèce unique, l’« espèce symbolique », est l’une des questions les plus passionnantes des neurosciences contemporaines. Musique, langage, mathématiques, résultent sans doute de l'émergence de propriétés nouvelles dans nos circuits neuronaux.