Stanislas Dehaene
Stanislas Dehaene (born May 12, 1965) is a French author and cognitive neuroscientist whose research centers on a number of topics, including numerical cognition, the neural basis of reading and the neural correlates of consciousness. As of 2017, he is a professor at the Collège de France and, since 1989, the director of INSERM Unit 562, "Cognitive Neuroimaging".
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Stanislas Dehaene in 2014 | |
| Born | 12 May 1965 Roubaix, France |
| Alma mater | École Normale Supérieure, Paris; École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales (EHESS), Paris; University of Oregon, Eugene |
| Known for | Numerical cognition, Neural correlates of reading and consciousness |
| Awards | James S. McDonnell Foundation "Genius Award", Louis D. Prize, Prix Jean Rostand (for La Bosse des Maths) |
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| Fields | Cognitive Neuroscience |
| Institutions | INSERM Unit 562 "Cognitive Neuroimaging" (director); Collège de France (professor) |
| Doctoral advisor | Jacques Mehler |
Dehaene was one of ten people to be awarded the James S. McDonnell Foundation Centennial Fellowship in 1999 for his work on the "Cognitive Neuroscience of Numeracy". In 2003, together with Denis Le Bihan, Dehaene was awarded the Grand Prix scientifique de la Fondation Louis D. from the Institut de France. He was elected to the American Philosophical Society in 2010. In 2014, together with Giacomo Rizzolatti and Trevor Robbins, he was awarded the Brain Prize.
Dehaene is an associate editor of the journal Cognition, and a member of the editorial board of several other journals, including NeuroImage, PLoS Biology, Developmental Science, and Neuroscience of Consciousness.