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)
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)
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!
www.college-de-france.fr/fr/agenda/co...
With talks by Edvard Moser, Nancy Kanwisher, Liz Spelke, Manuela Piazza, Luca Bonatti and more!
November 2, 2025 at 3:08 PM
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!
www.college-de-france.fr/fr/agenda/co...
With talks by Edvard Moser, Nancy Kanwisher, Liz Spelke, Manuela Piazza, Luca Bonatti and more!
"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.
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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.
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November 1, 2025 at 1:51 PM
"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...
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...
Evidence for graded semantic tuning curves in human concept cells.
Lovely work with Katharina Karkowski, Florian Mormann, Yair Lakretz, Marcel Kehl et al.
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...
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
October 28, 2025 at 8:48 AM
Evidence for graded semantic tuning curves in human concept cells.
Lovely work with Katharina Karkowski, Florian Mormann, Yair Lakretz, Marcel Kehl et al.
Lovely work with Katharina Karkowski, Florian Mormann, Yair Lakretz, Marcel Kehl et al.
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For your enjoyment (by @jagarikin)
October 25, 2025 at 11:58 AM
For your enjoyment (by @jagarikin)
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In basic income experiment after basic income experiment, and cash program after cash program, a practically universal result of unconditionally providing money to pregnant women is that their nutrition improves, and as a result their babies are born healthier.
youtu.be/z5biBPNlKJs?...
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Birth Weight and Cash Transfers
YouTube video by Marginal Revolution University
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December 5, 2024 at 5:13 PM
In basic income experiment after basic income experiment, and cash program after cash program, a practically universal result of unconditionally providing money to pregnant women is that their nutrition improves, and as a result their babies are born healthier.
youtu.be/z5biBPNlKJs?...
youtu.be/z5biBPNlKJs?...
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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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PNAS
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October 22, 2025 at 5:09 PM
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.
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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...
www.pnas.org
October 22, 2025 at 2:40 PM
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/...
www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...
Our fantastic colloquium starts this Wednesday October 1st at Collège de France.
Open to all, no registration required.
Merci @college-de-france.fr
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
🧠 « 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
September 29, 2025 at 12:22 PM
Our fantastic colloquium starts this Wednesday October 1st at Collège de France.
Open to all, no registration required.
Merci @college-de-france.fr
Open to all, no registration required.
Merci @college-de-france.fr
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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
🧠 « 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
September 23, 2025 at 1:02 PM
#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
🧠 « 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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“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.
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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September 21, 2025 at 6:24 AM
“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.
It costs a lot less to house people.
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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
🖼️ "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
September 10, 2025 at 1:34 PM
#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
🖼️ "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).
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).
September 10, 2025 at 8:34 AM
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).
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.
August 4, 2025 at 7:31 PM
Thank you! @college-de-france.fr archive, permitting to watch your lectures recorded 15 years ago, is truly outstanding.
An important upcoming meeting:
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August 4, 2025 at 7:25 AM
An important upcoming meeting:
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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...
Full program here:
www.unicog.org/seeing-the-m...
Seeing the Mind, Educating the Brain
www.unicog.org
July 23, 2025 at 2:46 PM
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...
Full program here:
www.unicog.org/seeing-the-m...
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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.
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doi.org/10.1016/j.co...
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.
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doi.org/10.1016/j.co...
Redirecting
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July 15, 2025 at 3:57 PM
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...
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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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...
"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...
July 12, 2025 at 8:00 PM
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...
"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...
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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...
@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...
July 14, 2025 at 9:00 AM
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...
@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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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.
www.nature.com
July 12, 2025 at 5:25 PM
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...
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Droit de réponse à "l'enquête" de Marie Dupin, Cellule investigation de Radio France, France Info:
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June 20, 2025 at 9:11 AM
Droit de réponse à "l'enquête" de Marie Dupin, Cellule investigation de Radio France, France Info:
ramus-meninges.fr/2025/06/20/d...
ramus-meninges.fr/2025/06/20/d...
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Do girls and boys really differ in their mathematical skills? A recent @nature.com paper by @standehaene.bsky.social et al shows that French boys and girls enter school with similar abilities, but after just four months, boys pull ahead 🧪 www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Rapid emergence of a maths gender gap in first grade - Nature
Boys and girls exhibit very similar maths scores upon school entry, but a gender gap in favour of boys becomes highly significant after 4 months of schooling, which increases with years of schooling,&...
www.nature.com
June 13, 2025 at 1:33 AM
Do girls and boys really differ in their mathematical skills? A recent @nature.com paper by @standehaene.bsky.social et al shows that French boys and girls enter school with similar abilities, but after just four months, boys pull ahead 🧪 www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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Je précise que l'article est purement descriptif, tout comme l'est la note de la DEPP documentant l'évolution de ces écarts au fil des niveaux scolaires.
Toute hypothèse sur les causes de ces écarts est à ce stade hypothétique.
www.education.gouv.fr/evolution-de...
Toute hypothèse sur les causes de ces écarts est à ce stade hypothétique.
www.education.gouv.fr/evolution-de...
June 13, 2025 at 8:09 AM
Je précise que l'article est purement descriptif, tout comme l'est la note de la DEPP documentant l'évolution de ces écarts au fil des niveaux scolaires.
Toute hypothèse sur les causes de ces écarts est à ce stade hypothétique.
www.education.gouv.fr/evolution-de...
Toute hypothèse sur les causes de ces écarts est à ce stade hypothétique.
www.education.gouv.fr/evolution-de...
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Un résumé dans le Monde:
www.lemonde.fr/sciences/art...
www.lemonde.fr/sciences/art...
Mathématiques : le décrochage des filles, dès quatre mois d’école, éclairé par une étude française sur plus de 2,6 millions d’écoliers de CP et CE1
Dès les premiers mois de CP, dans tous les types d’écoles françaises, les écarts se creusent en défaveur des filles dans les résultats des tests d’évaluation des compétences en maths – mais pas dans…
www.lemonde.fr
June 12, 2025 at 1:26 PM
Un résumé dans le Monde:
www.lemonde.fr/sciences/art...
www.lemonde.fr/sciences/art...
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Publication dans la revue Nature de l'étude montrant l'apparition des écarts garçons-filles en mathématiques au cours du CP:
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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Rapid emergence of a maths gender gap in first grade - Nature
Boys and girls exhibit very similar maths scores upon school entry, but a gender gap in favour of boys becomes highly significant after 4 months of schooling, which increases with years of…
www.nature.com
June 12, 2025 at 1:26 PM
Publication dans la revue Nature de l'étude montrant l'apparition des écarts garçons-filles en mathématiques au cours du CP:
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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#Éducation #Éducation #Genre
Découvrez comment l'école primaire creuse les écarts en #mathématiques entre les filles et les garçons dans une étude publiée aujourd'hui dans @nature.com par le Pr @standehaene.bsky.social et par le Dr Pauline Martinot.
👉 www.college-de-france.fr/fr/actualite...
Découvrez comment l'école primaire creuse les écarts en #mathématiques entre les filles et les garçons dans une étude publiée aujourd'hui dans @nature.com par le Pr @standehaene.bsky.social et par le Dr Pauline Martinot.
👉 www.college-de-france.fr/fr/actualite...
June 11, 2025 at 3:17 PM
#Éducation #Éducation #Genre
Découvrez comment l'école primaire creuse les écarts en #mathématiques entre les filles et les garçons dans une étude publiée aujourd'hui dans @nature.com par le Pr @standehaene.bsky.social et par le Dr Pauline Martinot.
👉 www.college-de-france.fr/fr/actualite...
Découvrez comment l'école primaire creuse les écarts en #mathématiques entre les filles et les garçons dans une étude publiée aujourd'hui dans @nature.com par le Pr @standehaene.bsky.social et par le Dr Pauline Martinot.
👉 www.college-de-france.fr/fr/actualite...