Stanislas Dehaene

Stanislas Dehaene is a French cognitive neuroscientist and mathematician. He studied at the École normale supérieure and holds a PhD in cognitive psychology. After serving as a research director at Inserm, he became Professor of Experimental Cognitive Psychology at the Collège de France in 2005. His research examines the neural foundations of reading, calculation, reasoning, and consciousness.

Dehaene directs the Inserm-CEA Cognitive Neuroimaging Unit and is a leading researcher in numerical cognition and the neuroscience of learning. His books include The Number Sense, Reading in the Brain, Consciousness and the Brain, and How We Learn: The New Science of Education and the Brain.