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Stanislas Dehaene

Stanislas Dehaene

Stanislas Dehaene, Ph.D., is a French psychologist and cognitive neuroscientist. He is a professor at the Collège de France, Chair of Experimental Cognitive Psychology. His research aims to elucidate the brain bases of the most fundamental operations of the human brain: reading, calculating, reasoning, awareness. His work has been acknowledged by several awards and grants, including the Louis D. Prize of the Fondation de France (with D. The Bihan), the Jean-Louis Signoret Award from the IPSEN Foundation, and the centennial fellowship of the American McDonnell Foundation. He is the author of multiple books including Reading in the Brain: The Science and Evolution of a Human Invention (2009) and How We Learn: Why Brains Learn Better Than Any Machine…For Now (2020).