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%

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The exemplar of superhuman A.I. performance to date
www.nytimes.com/2025/12/02/o...
A study on 1.7 million people in Hong Kong shows superior hybrid immunity to Covid in people who got vaccinated before infection vs. people who got infected first. "Our findings are a direct rebuttal to arguments for natural immunity," the authors write. doi.org/10.1016/j.va...
Redirecting
doi.org

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📣 Our latest brain-to-text decoding results from our Brain team is out:

"Towards decoding individual words from non-invasive brain recordings"

📄 www.nature.com/articles/s41...

👥 Led by Stéphane d'Ascoli & w/ Corentin Bel, Jérémy RAPIN, Hubert Banville, Yohann Benchetrit and Christophe Pallier

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La France est l’un des seuls pays à s’accrocher à la psychanalyse. C’est un fardeau souvent délétère pour les patients avec d’authentiques pathologies mentales (notamment autismes, dyslexies). Et de vraies solutions existent. Formons y nos psychologues! Et nos élèves.

Émission frustrante. Soyons clairs: La psychanalyse :
- ne fait pas progresser les enfants
- s’appuie sur un fatras de chimères théoriques (œdipe, castration, jeux de mots Lacaniens) qu’on a encore entendues ce soir
- conduit trop de CMPP à culpabiliser les parents au lieu de les outiller

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📻18h20

Psychanalyse : pourquoi certains veulent dérembourser tous les soins ?

Sur @franceculture.fr, @quentinlafay.bsky.social recevra les psychanalystes @elsagodart.bsky.social et Louis Sciara ainsi que @franckramus.bsky.social, chercheur en sciences cognitives
Psychanalyse : pourquoi certains veulent dérembourser tous les soins ?
Le 18 novembre 2025, onze sénateurs ont proposé de mettre fin, au 1er janvier 2026, au remboursement des soins et prestations "se réclamant de la psychanalyse ou reposant sur des fondements théoriques...
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Face à la pétition des professionnels orientés par la psychanalyse, 7 associations représentant des dizaines de milliers de familles d'enfants avec troubles neurodéveloppementaux défendent l'amendement 159 demandant le déremboursement des thérapies psychanalytiques:
www.ffdys.com/actualites/s...
SOUTIEN de l’amendement 159 - Fédération Française des DYS
Ecouter [Communiqué de presse • 20 novembre 2025] Ne cédons rien sur l’exigence de la qualité des pratiques professionnelles ! La FFDys s’associe aux acteurs du secteur du handicap pour soutenir…
www.ffdys.com

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We’re thrilled to announce that Professor Stanislas Dehaene (@standehaene.bsky.social, @college-de-france.fr) will deliver the SWC Lecture 2025!

His talk: ‘The science of reading: From neuroscience to the classroom’

Get your tickets ⤵️

www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/the-swc-le...

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" #Ketamine disrupts #consciousness in healthy participants in relation with #psychotic-like symptoms"

🥸 This is the title of our last preprint @biorxiv-neursci.bsky.social giving some insights on how ketamine at subanesthetic doses mimicks psychosis symptoms!

www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
Ketamine disrupts consciousness in healthy participants in relation with psychotic-like symptoms
Ketamine is an NMDA-receptor antagonist, which alters the state of wakeful consciousness at high doses. At lower doses, it induces reversible psychotic-like symptoms and has been used as a pharmacolog...
www.biorxiv.org

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!

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

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🚨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 ...
doi.org

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For your enjoyment (by @jagarikin)

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

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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/...
PNAS
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS), a peer reviewed journal of the National Academy of Sciences (NAS) - an authoritative source of high-impact, original research that broadly spans...
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Our fantastic colloquium starts this Wednesday October 1st at Collège de France.
Open to all, no registration required.
Merci @college-de-france.fr
#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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#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
“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.
thebetter.news

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