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Stanislas Dehaene

Stanislas Dehaene

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Neuroscience
France
2026

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Research.com Recognitions

  • 2026 - Research.com Neuroscience in France Leader Award
  • 2026 - Research.com Psychology in France Leader Award
  • 2025 - Research.com Best Scientists Award
  • 2025 - Research.com Neuroscience in France Leader Award
  • 2025 - Research.com Psychology in France Leader Award
  • 2023 - Research.com Neuroscience in France Leader Award
  • 2023 - Research.com Psychology in France Leader Award
  • 2022 - Research.com Neuroscience in France Leader Award
  • 2022 - Research.com Psychology in France Leader Award
  • 2020 - David E. Rumelhart Prize for Contributions to the Theoretical Foundations of Human Cognition
  • 2015 - APA Award for Distinguished Scientific Contributions to Psychology, American Psychological Association
  • 2014 - The Brain Prize, Lundbeck Foundation For their pioneering research on higher brain mechanisms underpinning such complex human functions as literacy, numeracy, motivated behaviour and social cognition, and for their efforts to understand cognitive and behavioural disorders
  • 2014 - Mind & Brain Prize, University and Polytechnic of Turin
  • 2013 - Grand prix de l'Inserm - Institut national de la santé et de la recherche médicale
  • 2010 - Member of the National Academy of Sciences
  • 2009 - Member of Academia Europaea
  • 2003 - Grand Prix scientifique de la Fondation Louis D., Institut de France
  • Member of the European Molecular Biology Organization (EMBO)
  • Member of the European Molecular Biology Organization (EMBO)
  • Member of the European Molecular Biology Organization (EMBO)
  • Member of the European Molecular Biology Organization (EMBO)
  • Member of the European Molecular Biology Organization (EMBO)
  • Member of the European Molecular Biology Organization (EMBO)

Overview

Stanislas Dehaene is affiliated with Collège de France in France. Their research primarily focuses on neuroscience and psychology, with a strong emphasis on cognitive neuroscience and developmental and educational psychology. They have also contributed to fields such as statistics and probability, artificial intelligence, and experimental and cognitive psychology.

Their work covers several main topics including reading and literacy development, neural dynamics and brain function, cognitive and developmental aspects of mathematical skills, visual perception and processing mechanisms, neurobiology of language and bilingualism, functional brain connectivity studies, and EEG and brain-computer interfaces.

Frequent co-authors include Yair Lakretz, Béchir Jarraya, Timo van Kerkoerle, Cassandra Potier Watkins, and Aakash Agrawal.

Common venues for their publications are:

  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • Trends in Cognitive Sciences
  • Cognition
  • eLife
  • Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences

Recent papers by Stanislas Dehaene include:

  • Conscious Processing and the Global Neuronal Workspace Hypothesis, 2020, Neuron
  • Geometry of sequence working memory in macaque prefrontal cortex, 2022, Science
  • Symbols and mental programs: a hypothesis about human singularity, 2022, Trends in Cognitive Sciences
  • Deep brain stimulation of the thalamus restores signatures of consciousness in a nonhuman primate model, 2022, Science Advances
  • Spatiotemporal dynamics of orthographic and lexical processing in the ventral visual pathway, 2020, Nature Human Behaviour

Dehaene has published books with the Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique and Éditions Odile Jacob. Titles include How We Learn: Why Brains Learn Better Than Any Machine... for Now (2020) and École éclairée par la science (2021).

Their awards comprise the David E. Rumelhart Prize for Contributions to the Theoretical Foundations of Human Cognition (2020), the APA Award for Distinguished Scientific Contributions to Psychology from the American Psychological Association (2015), the Mind & Brain Prize from the University and Polytechnic of Turin (2014), and The Brain Prize from the Lundbeck Foundation (2014) for research on higher brain mechanisms underpinning complex human functions such as literacy, numeracy, motivated behavior, and social cognition.

Additional recognitions include the Grand prix de l'Inserm - Institut national de la santé et de la recherche médicale (2013), membership in the National Academy of Sciences (2010), Academia Europaea (2009), and the European Molecular Biology Organization (EMBO).

Best Publications

  • The Number Sense: How the Mind Creates Mathematics

    Stanislas Dehaene

  • The mental representation of parity and number magnitude.

    Stanislas Dehaene;Serge Bossini;Pascal Giraux

  • Core systems of number

    Lisa Feigenson;Stanislas Dehaene;Elizabeth Spelke

  • THREE PARIETAL CIRCUITS FOR NUMBER PROCESSING

    Stanislas Dehaene;Manuela Piazza;Philippe Pinel;Laurent Cohen

  • Towards a cognitive neuroscience of consciousness: basic evidence and a workspace framework.

    Stanislas Dehaene;Lionel Naccache

  • Varieties of numerical abilities.

    Stanislas Dehaene

  • Experimental and Theoretical Approaches to Conscious Processing

    Stanislas Dehaene;Jean-Pierre Changeux;Jean-Pierre Changeux

  • Conscious, preconscious, and subliminal processing: a testable taxonomy.

    Stanislas Dehaene;Jean Pierre Changeux;Jean Pierre Changeux;Lionel Naccache;Jérôme Sackur

  • Sources of Mathematical Thinking: Behavioral and Brain-Imaging Evidence

    S. Dehaene;E. S Spelke;P. Pinel;R. Stanescu

  • The visual word form area: spatial and temporal characterization of an initial stage of reading in normal subjects and posterior split-brain patients.

    Laurent Cohen;Stanislas Dehaene;Lionel Naccache;Stéphane Lehéricy

  • The visual word form area: expertise for reading in the fusiform gyrus

    Bruce D. McCandliss;Laurent Cohen;Stanislas Dehaene

  • A Neuronal Model of a Global Workspace in Effortful Cognitive Tasks

    Stanislas Dehaene;Michel Kerszberg;Jean-Pierre Changeux

  • Cultural Recycling of Cortical Maps

    Stanislas Dehaene;Laurent Cohen

  • The unique role of the visual word form area in reading

    Stanislas Dehaene;Laurent Cohen;Laurent Cohen

  • Localization of a Neural System for Error Detection and Compensation

    Stanislas Dehaene;Michael I Posner;Don M Tucker

  • Exact and Approximate Arithmetic in an Amazonian Indigene Group

    Pierre Pica;Cathy Lemer;Véronique Izard;Stanislas Dehaene

  • Cerebral mechanisms of word masking and unconscious repetition priming.

    Stanislas Dehaene;Lionel Naccache;Laurent Cohen;Denis Le Bihan

  • Interactions between number and space in parietal cortex.

    Edward M. Hubbard;Manuela Piazza;Philippe Pinel;Stanislas Dehaene

  • Language‐specific tuning of visual cortex? Functional properties of the Visual Word Form Area

    Laurent Cohen;Stéphane Lehéricy;Florence Chochon;Cathy Lemer

  • Imaging unconscious semantic priming

    Stanislas Dehaene;Lionel Naccache;Gurvan Le Clec'H;Etienne Koechlin

  • The Number Sense: How the Mind Creates Mathematics.

    Reuben Hersh;Stanislas Dehaene

Frequent Co-Authors

Lionel Naccache
Lionel Naccache Sorbonne University
Laurent D. Cohen
Laurent D. Cohen Paris Dauphine University
Ghislaine Dehaene-Lambertz
Ghislaine Dehaene-Lambertz Centre national de la recherche scientifique, CNRS
Jean-Rémi King
Jean-Rémi King École Normale Supérieure
Mariano Sigman
Mariano Sigman Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas
Jean-Pierre Changeux
Jean-Pierre Changeux Institut Pasteur
Manuela Piazza
Manuela Piazza University of Trento
Antoinette Jobert
Antoinette Jobert Grenoble Alpes University
Christophe Pallier
Christophe Pallier Grenoble Alpes University
Elizabeth S. Spelke
Elizabeth S. Spelke Harvard University

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