Stanislas Dehaene

Chaire Psychologie cognitive expérimentale

Année 2025-2026

Collège de France

Colloque : Seeing the Mind, Educating the Brain

Theme: Human Singularity

Uniquely Human Prediction?

Colloque - Floris de Lange : Uniquely Human Prediction?

Floris de Lange

Résumé

The brain is fundamentally a predictive organ that uses internal models to extrapolate future events from current inputs. While this predictive capacity exists across species, what may be uniquely human are the specific internal models we employ. Using AI tools to quantify predictability in naturalistic environments, we can examine prediction at multiple levels of abstraction. In my talk I will highlight recent work from the domain of language, music and visual perception, elucidating how uniquely human experiences and capabilities shape our predictive models of the world.

Stanislas Dehaene

Chaire Psychologie cognitive expérimentale

Année 2025-2026

Collège de France

Colloque : Seeing the Mind, Educating the Brain

Theme: Neural Codes in Monkeys and Humans

Single-Neuron Correlates of Perception and Memory in the Human Medial Temporal Lobe

Colloque - Florian Mormann : Single-Neuron Correlates of Perception and Memory in the Human Medial Temporal Lobe

Florian Mormann

Stanislas Dehaene

Chaire Psychologie cognitive expérimentale

Année 2025-2026

Collège de France

Colloque : Seeing the Mind, Educating the Brain

Theme: Neural Codes in Monkeys and Humans

Do Monkeys See the Way We Do?

Colloque - Arun SP : Do Monkeys See the Way We Do?

Arun SP

Résumé

Monkeys are widely used as model organisms for vision and cognition. While their anatomy and physiology have strong correspondences with humans, it is unclear whether they truly see the way we do. In most studies, monkeys are extensively trained on specific tasks, leaving us without a more general answer to this question, along with the nagging doubt that the extensive training might have altered their perception. So how do we then test whether monkeys see the way we do? 

Stanislas Dehaene

Chaire Psychologie cognitive expérimentale

Année 2025-2026

Collège de France

Colloque : Seeing the Mind, Educating the Brain

Theme: Space, Time, and Number

The Perception and Understanding of Patterns and Graphics

Colloque - Lorenzo Ciccione : The Perception and Understanding of Patterns and Graphics

Lorenzo Ciccione

Résumé

Graphics are a cultural product, meaning that they are a human invention with defined rules and syntax. In this respect, they are very similar to written words and numbers, probably the two most famous cultural inventions. However, unlike them, graphics have been invented much more recently and they became widespread only in the last two centuries. Furthermore, graphicacy—the ability to read and understand graphics—has received little attention from cognitive psychology. In this talk, I will present some findings about the human ability to intuitively extract statistics and mathematical relations from graphical representations. Specifically, I will show that: graphics' intuitions are available early on in development, independently from formal education, and correlate with statistical and mathematical knowledge; judging the trends of noisy graphical displays recycles brain areas usually devoted to the detection of objects' orientation (in agreement with the neuronal recycling hypothesis) and also activates the brain network for mathematics; both children and adults can extrapolate non-linear mathematical patterns, with the notable exception of quadratic and exponential functions.

Stanislas Dehaene

Chaire Psychologie cognitive expérimentale

Année 2025-2026

Collège de France

Colloque : Seeing the Mind, Educating the Brain

Theme: Space, Time, and Number

How Humans Compress Information in Memory: The Language of Thought Hypothesis

Colloque - Fosca Al Roumi : How Humans Compress Information in Memory: The Language of Thought Hypothesis

Fosca Al Roumi

Stanislas Dehaene

Chaire Psychologie cognitive expérimentale

Année 2025-2026

Collège de France

Colloque : Seeing the Mind, Educating the Brain

Theme: Space, Time, and Number

Space as the Fabric of Thought

Colloque - Manuela Piazza : Space as the Fabric of Thought

Manuela Piazza

Stanislas Dehaene

Chaire Psychologie cognitive expérimentale

Année 2025-2026

Collège de France

Colloque : Seeing the Mind, Educating the Brain

Theme: Space, Time, and Number

Network Coding in Grid Cells and Place Cells: From Space to Memory

Colloque - Edvard Moser : Network Coding in Grid Cells and Place Cells: From Space to Memory

Edvard Moser

Stanislas Dehaene

Chaire Psychologie cognitive expérimentale

Année 2025-2026

Collège de France

Colloque : Seeing the Mind, Educating the Brain

Theme: Perception and Consciousness

The Global Workspace Model of Consciousness: Then and Now

Colloque - Claire Sergent : The Global Workspace Model of Consciousness: Then and Now

Claire Sergent

Stanislas Dehaene

Chaire Psychologie cognitive expérimentale

Année 2025-2026

Collège de France

Colloque : Seeing the Mind, Educating the Brain

Theme: Perception and Consciousness

Neural Mechanisms of Conscious Visual Perception in Humans

Colloque - Biyu Jade He : Neural Mechanisms of Conscious Visual Perception in Humans

Biyu Jade He

Résumé

In this talk, I will discuss insights from our recent work probing the neural mechanisms underlying conscious visual perception in humans by leveraging multimodal neuroimaging and computational approaches. I will focus on the roles of slow cortical potentials and spontaneous ongoing brain activity as revealed by our recent empirical work. I will also discuss neural and computational mechanisms underpinning humans' remarkable one-shot learning capability in visual perception, as well as how lifelong prior knowledge influences conscious perception.

Stanislas Dehaene

Chaire Psychologie cognitive expérimentale

Année 2025-2026

Collège de France

Colloque : Seeing the Mind, Educating the Brain

Theme: Perception and Consciousness

Building a Theory of Consciousness, One Collaboration at a Time

Colloque - Lucia Melloni : Building a Theory of Consciousness, One Collaboration at a Time

Lucia Melloni

Résumé

What does it take to transform consciousness from a philosophical puzzle into a scientific theory? Few frameworks have shaped this quest as deeply as Stanislas Dehaene's Global Neuronal Workspace Theory (GNWT). By proposing that conscious access arises through large-scale broadcasting and ignition across fronto-parietal networks, GNWT provided both a conceptual framework and concrete, testable predictions