Science Quote by Stanislas Dehaene

“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

“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

“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

“...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. For instance,…

— 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 curiosity with…

— Stanislas Dehaene

“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

“...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 milliseconds, but…

— 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 to focus…

— Stanislas Dehaene

“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

“glued to the top of the head. On conscious trials only, an ample voltage wave sweeps through this region. It starts around 270 milliseconds…

— Stanislas Dehaene