“progressive enrichment of children’s intuitions, leaning heavily on their precocious understanding of quantitative manipulations and of counting. One should first arouse their curiosity with some amusing numerical puzzles and problems. Then, little by little, one may introduce them to the… — Stanislas Dehaene Copy Share Image
“A new field of science was emerging: mathematical cognition, or the scientific inquiry into how the human brain gives rise to mathematics... the transition from mathematics to neuropsychology.” — Stanislas Dehaene Copy Share Image
“The notion that the world is mostly made up of small sets is an illusion imposed on us by our perceptual and cognitive systems.” — Stanislas Dehaene Copy Share Image
“An innate sense of approximate numerical quantities may well be embedded in our genes; but when faced with exact symbolic calculation, we lack proper… — Stanislas Dehaene Copy Share Image
“These three ingredients—focusing on conscious access, manipulating conscious perception, and carefully recording introspection—have transformed the study of consciousness into a normal experimental science.” — Stanislas Dehaene Copy Share Image
“...the opacity of a numeration system takes an important toll on language acquisition.” — Stanislas Dehaene Copy Share Image
“By definition, we have no access to our many unconscious processes—but this does not prevent us from making up stories about them. For instance,… — Stanislas Dehaene Copy Share Image
“progressive enrichment of children’s intuitions, leaning heavily on their precocious understanding of quantitative manipulations and of counting. One should first arouse their curiosity with… — Stanislas Dehaene Copy Share Image
“A stream of symbols appears at the same location on a computer screen. Most of the symbols are digits, but some are letters, which… — Stanislas Dehaene Copy Share Image
“...numbers rule our lives. Indeed, they lie at the heart of our technology.” — Stanislas Dehaene Copy Share Image
“In many experiments, the boundary between seeing and not seeing is relatively sharp: an image is downright invisible when presented for 40 milliseconds, but… — Stanislas Dehaene Copy Share Image
“What counts as genuine consciousness, I will argue, is conscious access-the simple fact that usually, whenever we are awake, whatever we decide to focus… — Stanislas Dehaene Copy Share Image
“An important consequence of these observations is that our consciousness of unexpected events lags considerably behind the real world. Not only do we consciously… — Stanislas Dehaene Copy Share Image
“In point of fact, the greater one’s science, the deeper the sense of mystery. —Vladimir” — Stanislas Dehaene Copy Share Image
