Stanislas Dehaene

“The notion that the world is mostly made up of small sets is an illusion imposed on us by our perceptual and…

— Stanislas Dehaene

“An innate sense of approximate numerical quantities may well be embedded in our genes; but when faced with exact symbolic calculation, we…

— Stanislas Dehaene

“These three ingredients—focusing on conscious access, manipulating conscious perception, and carefully recording introspection—have transformed the study of consciousness into a normal experimental…

— Stanislas Dehaene

“...the opacity of a numeration system takes an important toll on language acquisition.”

— Stanislas Dehaene

“By definition, we have no access to our many unconscious processes—but this does not prevent us from making up stories about them.…

— Stanislas Dehaene

“progressive enrichment of children’s intuitions, leaning heavily on their precocious understanding of quantitative manipulations and of counting. One should first arouse their…

— Stanislas Dehaene

“A stream of symbols appears at the same location on a computer screen. Most of the symbols are digits, but some are…

— Stanislas Dehaene

“...numbers rule our lives. Indeed, they lie at the heart of our technology.”

— Stanislas Dehaene

“In many experiments, the boundary between seeing and not seeing is relatively sharp: an image is downright invisible when presented for 40…

— Stanislas Dehaene

“What counts as genuine consciousness, I will argue, is conscious access-the simple fact that usually, whenever we are awake, whatever we decide…

— Stanislas Dehaene

“An important consequence of these observations is that our consciousness of unexpected events lags considerably behind the real world. Not only do…

— Stanislas Dehaene

“In point of fact, the greater one’s science, the deeper the sense of mystery. —Vladimir”

— Stanislas Dehaene

“glued to the top of the head. On conscious trials only, an ample voltage wave sweeps through this region. It starts around…

— Stanislas Dehaene

“Conscious access is also the gateway to more complex forms of conscious experience. In everyday language, we often conflate our Consciousness with…

— Stanislas Dehaene

“distinguish the mere correlates of consciousness from the genuine signatures of consciousness. Although the quest for the brain mechanisms of conscious experience…

— Stanislas Dehaene

“...an arthropod with twenty-one body segments and forty-two legs, is commonly called a centipede (one hundred feet) in English and a "mille-pattes"…

— Stanislas Dehaene

“A new field of science was emerging: mathematical cognition, or the scientific inquiry into how the human brain gives rise to mathematics...…

— Stanislas Dehaene

“consciousness has a precise role to play in the computational economy of the brain—it selects, amplifies, and propagates relevant thoughts.”

— Stanislas Dehaene

“Literature was not born the day when a boy crying “wolf, wolf” came running out of the Neanderthal valley with a big…

— Stanislas Dehaene