| 1 | Name: | Dr. Stanislas Dehaene | |
| Institution: | Collège de France | ||
| Year Elected: | 2010 | ||
| Class: | 3. Social Sciences | ||
| Subdivision: | 305 | ||
| Residency: | International | ||
| Living? : | Living | ||
| Birth Date: | 1965 | ||
Stanislas Dehaene was initially trained in mathematics, at the Ecole Normale Supérieure (1984), before receiving his PhD in cognitive psychology at the Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales (1989), under the direction of psycholinguist Jacques Mehler. He simultaneously developed neuronal models of cognitive functions with molecular neurobiologist Jean-Pierre Changeux (1987-present). After a post-doctoral stay with Michael Posner at the University of Oregon, he oriented his research towards the cognitive neuroscience of language and mathematical abilities. His experiments use brain imaging methods to investigate the mechanisms of cognitive functions such as reading, calculation and language processing, with a particular interest for the differences between conscious and non-conscious processing. Since 2005, he teaches at the Collège de France, where he holds the chair of Experimental Cognitive Psychology. He also directs the INSERM-CEA Cognitive Neuroimaging Unit at NeuroSpin in Saclay, just south of Paris -- France’s advanced neuroimaging research center. In 2024 he won the Atkinson Prize in Psychological and Cognitive Sciences from the National Academy of Sciences. | |||