Stanislas Dehaene, PhD
About the Author
Stanislas Dehaene, PhD is Professor at the Collège de France and Chair of Experimental Cognitive Psychology. He received his training in mathematics at the Ecole Normale Supérieure in Paris, then completed a PhD in cognitive psychology. He has been working since 1997 at the Orsay brain imaging center near Paris (Service Hospitalier Frédéric Joliot of the Commissariat A l’Energie Atomique), where he has been director of the Cognitive Neuroimaging Unit since 2001. Dr. Dehaene’s interests concern the cerebral bases of specifically human cognitive functions such as language, calculation, and reasoning. His main scientific contributions include the study of the organization of the cerebral system for number processing. He is the author of over 100 scientific publications in major international journals. He has also edited three books on brain imaging, consciousness, and brain evolution, and has authored two general-audience films on the human brain. He is the associate editor of Cognition, an international journal of Cognitive Science.
