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)
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🧠 The Paris Brain Institute is launching a Call for Junior Group Leaders, inviting early-career scientists to establish their own independent research groups within one of Europe’s most dynamic neuroscience research centers.

👉 More information: parisbraininstitute.org/news/paris-b...

#Hiring #AI
Paris Brain Institute Call for Junior Group Leaders in Artificial Intelligence and Data Science | Paris Brain Institute
The Paris Brain Institute is launching a Call for Junior Group Leaders, inviting outstanding early-career scientists in artificial intelligence, data science, computational neuroscience, and related f...
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February 11, 2026 at 5:06 PM
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Our paper is out in @natneuro.nature.com!

www.nature.com/articles/s41...

We develop a geometric theory of how neural populations support generalization across many tasks.

@zuckermanbrain.bsky.social
@flatironinstitute.org
@kempnerinstitute.bsky.social

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February 10, 2026 at 3:56 PM
Our paper on the human brain networks sensitive to geometric shape is now final in @elife.bsky.social, with nice videos by Mathias Sablé-Meyer explaining each figure!

A geometric shape regularity effect in the human brain
elifesciences.org/articles/106...
A geometric shape regularity effect in the human brain
fMRI and MEG results in adults and children show encoding of abstract geometric regularities in dorsal-parietal, temporal, and frontal regions, pointing to a system for symbolic geometric representati...
elifesciences.org
February 10, 2026 at 10:59 AM
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
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February 10, 2026 at 7:39 AM
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Il faut écouter @standehaene.bsky.social, l’un des meilleurs défenseurs de la culture mathématique pour toutes et tous.
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February 7, 2026 at 7:35 AM
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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
February 8, 2026 at 5:40 PM
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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
February 6, 2026 at 2:23 AM
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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
February 6, 2026 at 4:01 PM
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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
January 21, 2026 at 6:00 PM
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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...
February 4, 2026 at 5:01 PM
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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
February 2, 2026 at 6:02 PM
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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
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January 30, 2026 at 10:00 AM
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:
January 21, 2026 at 6:01 PM
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
January 21, 2026 at 6:00 PM
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...)
January 15, 2026 at 7:13 PM
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.
January 15, 2026 at 7:13 PM
L'imagerie cérébrale montre que le cerveau humain abrite un circuit des mathématiques, capable de composer les nombres et les formes en une infinité d'idées nouvelles. Ce qui nous distingue des autres espèces animales, c’est la faculté de composer les idées entre elles.
January 15, 2026 at 7:13 PM
Les premiers humains, avant d’esquisser des dessins réalistes, n’ont cessé de tracer des motifs géométriques : carrés, rectangles, cercles ou spirales, lignes parallèles ou perpendiculaires… D’où viennent ces archétypes ? Et pourquoi l’espèce humaine est-elle la seule à maîtriser la géométrie ?
January 15, 2026 at 7:13 PM
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:
January 15, 2026 at 7:13 PM
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New and #OpenAccess in the January issue of the Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience: The Neural Bases of Graphical Perception: A Novel Instance of Cultural Recycling? by @lorenzo-ciccione.bsky.social and Stanislas Dehaene: direct.mit.edu/jocn/article... @jocn.bsky.social @standehaene.bsky.social
The Neural Bases of Graphical Perception: A Novel Instance of Cultural Recycling?
Abstract. Graphical representations of quantitative data abound in our culture, and yet the brain mechanisms of graphicacy, by which viewers quickly extract statistical information from a data…
direct.mit.edu
January 15, 2026 at 2:16 PM
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Registration for the Ascona 2026 Meeting is now open. Go to asconacircuits.org to submit your abstract and register for the meeting! We are looking forward to seeing you in Switzerland this September! Ascona Meeting Organizers
January 5, 2026 at 7:34 AM
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The exemplar of superhuman A.I. performance to date
www.nytimes.com/2025/12/02/o...
December 7, 2025 at 4:57 PM
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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
December 6, 2025 at 5:02 PM
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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
December 4, 2025 at 2:41 PM
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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:
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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…
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November 21, 2025 at 1:48 PM