Stanislas Dehaene

Stanislas Dehaene, born 12 May 1965, is a French author, cognitive neuroscientist and mathematician whose research centers on numerical cognition, the neural basis of reading and the neural correlates of consciousness. He is a professor at the Collège de France and, since 1989, director of the INSERM unit on cognitive neuroimaging. His work on how the brain learns to handle numbers and to read bears directly on how arithmetic and reading are taught. He received the James S. McDonnell Foundation Centennial Fellowship in 1999 for the cognitive neuroscience of numeracy, was elected to the American Philosophical Society in 2010, and in 2014 shared the Brain Prize with Giacomo Rizzolatti and Trevor Robbins. He is an associate editor of the journal Cognition.