Stanislas Dehaene
Stanislas Dehaene
Stanislas Dehaene studied mathematics at the École Normale Supérieure in Paris, obtained his master's degree in Applied mathematics and computer science from the University of Paris VI and completed his PhD in Experimental Psychology at the École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales Paris. Today he is Professor of Experimental Cognitive Psychology at the Collège de France, Paris, and Director of the INSERM-CEA Cognitive Neuroimaging Unit, NeuroSpin, Saclay, France. He is a Member of US Academy of Sciences, British Academy, French Academy of Sciences, Pontifical Academy of Sciences, American Philosophical Society, and Academia Europae.
The Dehaene lab studies how the human brain acquires and implements the symbolic processes that underlie language and mathematics. His laboratory clarified the role of two brain regions: the intraparietal sulcus for number sense and the left occipito-temporal cortex for word reading. They investigate how these regions change as a function of education, and how they interconnect to language areas, particularly during the processing of nested expressions, a function that may be unique to humans. Their research also attempts to clarify the mechanisms of consciousness by studying whether these cognitive processes can unfold with subliminal stimuli, and which brain events characterize conscious processing.
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