Stanislas Dehaene @standehaene.bsky.social · 18/09/2026An important new paper from the lab : in a few years, vision models have progressed to such an extent that they almost match human perception in the domain of geometry (but may still fall short of having a genuine language of shapes). 0176
Stanislas Dehaene @standehaene.bsky.social · 14/09/2026www.lemonde.fr/sciences/art...lemonde.fr« Les programmes actuels de maternelle intègrent déjà le principe d’une initiation renforcée à la lecture »Si la préparation à la lecture avant le CP reste insuffisante, admet le neuroscientifique Stanislas Dehaene dans un entretien au « Monde », notre école souffre de problèmes plus importants, comme la q... 052
Stanislas Dehaene @standehaene.bsky.social · 14/09/2026Apprendre à lire : ce que les données de 9 000 enseignants et 130 000 élèves révèlent des méthodes et de leur efficacité theconversation.com/apprendre-a-...theconversation.comApprendre à lire : ce que les données de 9 000 enseignants et 130 000 élèves révèlent des méthodes et de leur efficacitéAlors que la dernière enquête PISA sur le niveau des élèves note un net décrochage dans la compréhension de l’écrit, des études offrent des pistes pour améliorer l’enseignement de la lecture. 033
Reposted by Stanislas DehaeneMassimo (mirror) @rainmaker1973-m.bsky.social · 08/08/2026How to go straight from dinner to cake. [📹 josephsmachines] Original post 771821343
Reposted by Stanislas DehaeneThéo Morfoisse @theomorfoisse.bsky.social · 28/07/2026When children start school, how do their brains change to support learning of formal mathematics? Our new paper, with @standehaene.bsky.social, just out in PNAS, followed ~50 children with yearly fMRI scans over 3 years, from preschool to 2nd grade, to see how this network develops. 🧵pnas.orgInitial organization and progressive expansion of the math-responsive brain network during the first school years 12513
Reposted by Stanislas DehaeneRicard Solé @ricardsole.bsky.social · 19/07/2026Why is reading so fundamental to the human mind? In this fascinating paper, @standehaene.bsky.social & Co show how literacy reshapes and connects the brain’s visual and language systems. A timely reminder of what education could lose if LLMs replace reading & writing. www.unicog.org/publications... 14312
Reposted by Stanislas DehaeneStanislas Dehaene @standehaene.bsky.social · 06/07/2026Lionel Naccache and I wrote a commentary on this work from a neuroscience perspective. You can read it here : unicog.org/a-global-wor...unicog.orgA global workspace in language models – Unicog_2025 12710
Stanislas Dehaene @standehaene.bsky.social · 06/07/2026The global neuronal workspace (GNW) is currently the best documented neuroscience mechanism by which conscious processing arises in the human brain — and now Anthropic researchers have discovered a similar workspace inside their large language model ! www.anthropic.com/research/glo...anthropic.comA global workspace in language modelsInterpretability research on Claude's internal thoughts. 59225
Stanislas Dehaene @standehaene.bsky.social · 06/07/2026New paper from the lab: we use longitudinal fMRI over the first two years of school to test theories of conceptual development in the math domain. “Initial organization and progressive expansion of the math-responsive brain network during the first school years” PNAS www.pnas.org/doi/full/10....pnas.orgInitial organization and progressive expansion of the math-responsive brain network during the first school years | PNASThe neural mechanisms by which the developing brain acquires higher mathematical concepts from elementary intuitions remain poorly understood. Thro... 1163
Stanislas Dehaene @standehaene.bsky.social · 03/07/2026A fundamental discovery ! Immanuel Kant would have loved it. 35014
Stanislas Dehaene @standehaene.bsky.social · 14/06/2026In this new JEP:General paper, we show that geometric shapes are organized as tree structures in a language of thought. We apply several linguistic tests for nested constituents, including structural ambiguity, constituent subparts, and syntactic movement, and find analogues in the visual domain. 0131
Reposted by Stanislas DehaeneBarbu Revencu @barbu-revencu.bsky.social · 12/06/2026Representations of geometric shapes have syntactic structure w/ @maxencepajot.bsky.social and @standehaene.bsky.social is out & open-access in JEP:General doi.org/10.1037/xge0.... For an overview, see thread below!doi.orgAPA PsycNet 02711
Reposted by Stanislas DehaeneNeuromatch @neuromatch.bsky.social · 03/06/2026Last call to apply! ⏰ Applications close 10 June! ⬇️⬇️⬇️ cifar.ca/next-generat... #NeuroscienceResearch #ConsciousnessStudies #PostdocOpportunities #AIConsciousness #NeuroscienceOfConsciousnesscifar.caCIFAR Neuroscience of Consciousness Winter School - CIFARFollow Us FaceBook Twitter YouTube LinkedIn Instagram The CIFAR Neuroscience of Consciousness Winter School is a unique, three-day event where tomorrow’s neuroscience leaders work closely […] 01911
Reposted by Stanislas DehaeneCortex Mag @cortexmag.bsky.social · 05/06/2026Pour @standehaene.bsky.social, la capacité à combiner des symboles élémentaires pour en former de plus complexes serait propre à l'Homme 👉 Ses explications sur l'origine de la géométrie dans Cerveau et Psycho,à l'occasion de la sortie du "Rectangle de Lascaux" www.cerveauetpsycho.fr/sr/interview...cerveauetpsycho.frStanislas Dehaene : « La géométrie est peut-être apparue avant le langage »Selon Stanislas Dehaene, notre cerveau possède des langages internes de la pensée qui auraient précédé l’apparition du langage parlé. Son dernier livre se penche sur les origines de la géométrie. 063
Reposted by Stanislas DehaeneRui Xu @rui-xu.bsky.social · 20/05/2026New preprint as my first post! "Monosynaptic connections link functionally similar regions in human cortex." We use electrical stimulation + fMRI in epilepsy patients to map whole-brain monosynaptic connectivity at 42 cortical sites. doi.org/10.64898/202... 1/n 514057
Reposted by Stanislas DehaenebioRxiv Neuroscience @biorxiv-neursci.bsky.social · 16/05/2026An ordinal Language of Thought supports human memory for regular sequences www.biorxiv.org/content/10.64898/20… 074
Reposted by Stanislas DehaeneNancy Kanwisher @nancykanwisher.bsky.social · 14/05/2026This guy is fantastic: 0132
Stanislas Dehaene @standehaene.bsky.social · 10/05/2026A very interesting piece by @henryconklin.bsky.social et al. on how brains and LLMs acquire abstract, meaningful internal representations by compressing the information they receive. Similar ideas in my book "How we learn"! henryconkl.in/posts/i-am-a... Full paper: henryconkl.in/posts/llms-a...henryconkl.ini am, myself, a lossy compression – ha companion piece to our ICLR 2026 Paper: Learning is Forgetting: LLM Training As Lossy Compression 1305
Stanislas Dehaene @standehaene.bsky.social · 04/05/2026A new preprint from the lab: nailing down the timing (MEG) and the cortical localization (7T fMRI) of access to 15 elementary mathematical concepts from 3 categories: integers, fractions, and geometric shapes. 0177
Reposted by Stanislas Dehaenemegan peters 🧠 @meganakpeters.bsky.social · 24/04/2026Applications for the #CIFAR Neuroscience of Consciousness Winter School open April 29! Join us in December to discuss "why consciousness matters": why we value it, why it might matter for moral status or exist evolutionarily, & why we have to get C-science right for society & our global future.cifar.caCIFAR Neuroscience of Consciousness Winter School - CIFARFollow Us FaceBook Twitter YouTube LinkedIn Instagram The CIFAR Neuroscience of Consciousness Winter School is a unique, three-day event where tomorrow’s neuroscience leaders work closely […] 0145
Reposted by Stanislas Dehaeneines-schoenmann.bsky.social @ines-schoenmann.bsky.social · 27/04/2026New peer-reviewed paper w/ @mheilbron.bsky.social, @predictivebrain.bsky.social & Jakub Szewczyk! Pre-onset brain encoding has been taken as evidence that brains–like LLMs–predict upcoming words. We show that the same signatures arise in systems that cannot predict. (elifesciences.org) (1/8) 312050
Reposted by Stanislas DehaeneSP Arun @sparuniisc.bsky.social · 29/04/2026Preprint alert! We've done the first ever wireless brain recordings from the high-level visual & motor regions (IT/PMv/PFC) in monkeys engaged in natural behaviors as well as during controlled screen-based tasks. Read below for a lay summary and the link for details! 1/8 15918
Reposted by Stanislas DehaeneJim @jimw14.bsky.social · 24/04/2026"Meditation", Je Shen, Chinese Artist, 2026 1127241920
Reposted by Stanislas DehaeneJiajie Zou @jiajiezou.bsky.social · 22/04/2026New paper 🌟out now in Nat. Neurosci.: www.nature.com/articles/s41.... With advisors @davidpoeppel.bsky.social and @Nai! We show that, while LLMs are optimized to predict the next word, the human brain modulates prediction efficiency by strategically grouping words into constituents. 1/n More 👇 25825
Reposted by Stanislas DehaeneRuss Poldrack @russpoldrack.org · 20/04/2026"AI amplifies whatever is already there. Good discipline becomes great output. No discipline becomes technical debt at machine speed. Anthropic chose a direction. Go faster. Have Claude check Claude. And when it breaks, go faster still." substack.com/home/post/p-...substack.comClaude Code's Source: 3,167-Line Function, Regex SentimentAnthropic claimed 100% of Claude Code is AI-written. A source leak exposed a 3,167-line function, regex sentiment analysis, and 250K wasted API calls daily 12611
Reposted by Stanislas DehaeneJean-Rémi King @jeanremiking.bsky.social · 21/04/2026We're happy to release NeuralSet: a simple, fast, scalable package for Neuro-AI Supports: 🧠 fMRI, EEG, MEG, iEEG, spikes… preprocessing 💬 text 🔊 audio ▶️ video 🏞️ image… embeddings 📦 pip install neuralset 🔍 facebookresearch.github.io/neuroai/neur... 📄 kingjr.github.io/files/neural... 🧵 Details👇 17530
Stanislas Dehaene @standehaene.bsky.social · 17/04/2026C'est avec une profonde tristesse que nous avons appris la disparition de Séverine Erhel, professeure à l'université de Rennes 2 et membre du CSEN. Elle avait notamment coordonné notre conférence internationale Quels usages de l'IA en éducation ? 7sb07.r.sp1-brevo.net/mk/mr/sh/SMJ...7sb07.r.sp1-brevo.net[Dernière parution] - Recommandations de la conférence "Quels usages de l'IA en éducation ?" 030
Stanislas Dehaene @standehaene.bsky.social · 14/04/2026Une petite vidéo accessible sur quelques unes des grandes idées de mon livre « Le rectangle de Lascaux » youtu.be/toKrawCaO_A?...youtu.beLa géométrie est-elle inscrite dans notre cerveau ? | Interview de Stanislas DehaeneYouTube video by Le Blob 072
Stanislas Dehaene @standehaene.bsky.social · 14/04/2026A new paper from the lab! We use MEG and a "local/global" design in the language domain to ask whether the transitions between words in a sentence are encoded by a shallow transition-probability mechanism, in parallel to a tree-based syntactic mechanism. www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...sciencedirect.comDisentangling hierarchical and sequential computations during sentence processingSentences in natural language have a hierarchical structure that can be described in terms of nested trees. To compose sentence meaning, the human bra… 0157
Reposted by Stanislas DehaeneJulien Gadonneix @juliengadonneix.bsky.social · 08/04/2026🔥 We're very pleased to release our latest study 🧠: "Temporal structure of the language hierarchy within small cortical patches" Paper → arxiv.org/abs/2604.03021 🧵 Summary thread below: 1/7 24615
Reposted by Stanislas DehaeneFranck Ramus @franckramus.bsky.social · 28/03/2026Des failles conceptuelles et méthodologiques sapent les affirmations d’un lien entre le microbiote intestinal et l’autisme. Une revue de littérature complète et une critique sévère de tout ce champ de recherche: www.cell.com/neuron/fullt... 1238
Stanislas Dehaene @standehaene.bsky.social · 26/03/2026A new tour de force from Jean Remi King’s team 090
Reposted by Stanislas DehaeneStéphane d’Ascoli @sdascoli.bsky.social · 26/03/2026🚨 We're very happy to introduce TRIBE v2: a foundation model of the brain's responses to sight, sound & language. 📄 Paper: ai.meta.com/research/pub... ▶️ Demo: aidemos.atmeta.com/tribev2/ 💻 Code: github.com/facebookrese... 🤗 Model: huggingface.co/facebook/tri... 36320
Stanislas Dehaene @standehaene.bsky.social · 25/03/2026Je donnerai prochainement une intervention à la BNF sur l'imagerie cérébrale dans le cadre de cette conférence : "De la trépanation à l'imagerie cérébrale : révolutions dans l'exploration du cerveau" www.bnf.fr/fr/agenda/de...bnf.frDe la trépanation à l'imagerie cérébrale : révolutions dans l'exploration du cerveauBnF - Site institutionnel 052
Stanislas Dehaene @standehaene.bsky.social · 25/03/2026New preprint "A cortical semantic space integrating fractions and integers" We used 7T fMRI during number comparison to map the adult cortical representation of small integers 0-5 and basic fractions. Those abstract symbolic concepts are mapped in parietal cortex. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6... 03112
Reposted by Stanislas DehaeneSociety for Neuroscience @sfn.org · 24/03/2026Tomorrow is the day! Register now for this Meet-the-Expert webinar that will explore what a sensory stimulus has to achieve in the brain to enter into conscious awareness and possible translations for the blind. 🔗: vist.ly/4vxgh #neurosky #neuroskyence #academicchatter 0114
Stanislas Dehaene @standehaene.bsky.social · 22/03/2026My course on consciousness is now online: six 90´ lectures featuring both history and recent experimental results on ignition, P3b, working memory, neural manifolds… unpublished results too. I speak in French (College de France oblige) but slides and subtitles are in English tinyurl.com/cz9yb4z3tinyurl.comQu’est-ce que la conscience, et quels sont ses mécanismes cérébraux ? | Collège de France 04317
Reposted by Stanislas DehaeneCollège de France @college-de-france.fr · 18/03/2026#Science #Psychologie 🧠 « Qu’est-ce que la conscience, et quels sont ses mécanismes cérébraux ? » 📌 Le cours du Pr @standehaene.bsky.social, titulaire de la chaire Psychologie cognitive expérimentale, est terminé... mais toutes les vidéos sont à revoir sur notre site ! 👉 tinyurl.com/cz9yb4z3 193
Stanislas Dehaene @standehaene.bsky.social · 10/03/2026Vers « une politique éducative fondée sur la science » « Nous plaidons pour que le début des cours à 9 heures devienne la référence nationale pour le collège et le lycée » www.lemonde.fr/societe/arti...lemonde.fr« Nous plaidons pour que le début des cours à 9 heures devienne la référence nationale pour le collège et le lycée »TRIBUNE. L’ancienne ministre de l’éducation Anne Genetet cosigne, avec plusieurs médecins spécialistes du sommeil, une tribune au « Monde » qui réclame l’adaptation des horaires scolaires aux besoins ... 093
Reposted by Stanislas DehaeneThe Brain Prize @brainprize.org · 05/03/2026Warm congratulations to The Brain Prize winners 2026, Professor David Ginty and Professor Patrik Ernfors, for their pioneering work on how the nervous system detects and processes touch and pain. Karolinska Institutet HHMI #Neuroscience #BrainPrize2026 18536
Reposted by Stanislas DehaeneMicha Engeser @michaengesee.bsky.social · 04/03/2026New preprint with @alexlepauvre.bsky.social, @standehaene.bsky.social and Lucia Melloni (@predictivebrainlab.bsky.social) on the temporal dynamics of conscious access: Discrete episodes of conscious access revealed by the psychological refractory period osf.io/preprints/ps...osf.ioOSF 0144
Reposted by Stanislas DehaeneCortex Mag @cortexmag.bsky.social · 04/03/202630 ans après "La Bosse des maths", @standehaene.bsky.social replonge aux sources de ce qui fait de nous des êtres mathématiques. Dans dernier son livre "Le rectangle de Lascaux", il remonte aux sources de la #géométrie, née avant l'art figuratif. Via @letemps.ch www.letemps.ch/sciences/sta...letemps.chStanislas Dehaene, neuroscientifique: «La géométrie est apparue chez l’humain bien avant la naissance de l’art figuratif» - Le TempsSi la plupart des animaux possèdent un sens approximatif des nombres, seul l’être humain est capable de reconnaître des formes géométriques simples, explique le neuroscientifique français Stanislas De... 011
Reposted by Stanislas DehaeneMathias Sablé-Meyer @mathiassablemeyer.bsky.social · 22/01/2026Excited to see this Version Of Record of my work out in @elife.bsky.social! elifesciences.org/articles/106... We investigate the mental representation of geometric shapes in adults and children using fMRI and MEG. Each figure has a video of me explaining the figure: go and read it, or read below. 14415
Reposted by Stanislas DehaeneLucas Benjamin @lucaswbenjamin.bsky.social · 27/02/2026Excited to share our new paper in @pnas.org with @bnmorillon.bsky.social & @valentinwyart.bsky.social www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/... We study three core inference systems, and how their interaction shapes human learning and decision-making. 15419
Reposted by Stanislas DehaeneKevin Mitchell @wiringthebrain.bsky.social · 21/02/2026The strongest version of this illusion I’ve seen! Absolute head-wrecker! 25388122
Reposted by Stanislas DehaeneCedric Boeckx @cedricboeckx.bsky.social · 17/02/2026“The hippocampus enables abstract structure learning without reward” Very interesting preprint by @athenaakrami.bsky.social on the critical role of the hippocampus in statistical learning 🧪🧠 www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...biorxiv.org 2156
Reposted by Stanislas DehaeneParis Brain Institute - Institut du Cerveau @institutducerveau.bsky.social · 11/02/2026🧠 The Paris Brain Institute is launching a Call for Junior Group Leaders, inviting early-career scientists to establish their own independent research groups within one of Europe’s most dynamic neuroscience research centers. 👉 More information: parisbraininstitute.org/news/paris-b... #Hiring #AIparisbraininstitute.orgParis Brain Institute Call for Junior Group Leaders in Artificial Intelligence and Data Science | Paris Brain InstituteThe Paris Brain Institute is launching a Call for Junior Group Leaders, inviting outstanding early-career scientists in artificial intelligence, data science, computational neuroscience, and related f... 11711
Reposted by Stanislas DehaeneSueYeon Chung @sueyeonchung.bsky.social · 10/02/2026Our paper is out in @natneuro.nature.com! www.nature.com/articles/s41... We develop a geometric theory of how neural populations support generalization across many tasks. @zuckermanbrain.bsky.social @flatironinstitute.org @kempnerinstitute.bsky.social 1/14 7278101
Stanislas Dehaene @standehaene.bsky.social · 10/02/2026Our paper on the human brain networks sensitive to geometric shape is now final in @elife.bsky.social, with nice videos by Mathias Sablé-Meyer explaining each figure! A geometric shape regularity effect in the human brain elifesciences.org/articles/106...elifesciences.orgA geometric shape regularity effect in the human brainfMRI and MEG results in adults and children show encoding of abstract geometric regularities in dorsal-parietal, temporal, and frontal regions, pointing to a system for symbolic geometric representati... 0248
Stanislas Dehaene @standehaene.bsky.social · 10/02/2026Evidence-based education and the science of reading yield wonderful results : These Three Red States Are the Best Hope in Schooling www.nytimes.com/2026/02/09/o...nytimes.comOpinion | These Three Red States Are the Best Hope in Schooling 052