Psychologie Cognitive Expérimentale

Stanislas DehaenePsychologie cognitive expérimentaleCollège de FranceAnnée 2025-2026Colloque: Seeing the Mind, Educating the BrainStanislas Dehaene: IntroductionColloque en anglais.PrésentationOver the past decades, behavioral measures, brain imaging and neurophysiological recordings, in both humans and non-human primates, have led to major progress in understanding the neuronal and circuit-level properties that support cognitive functions such as visual recognition, spatial navigation and decision making. Human cognition is special, however, in its unique capacity to acquire new concepts and abilities through learning and education, particularly in the domain of language and mathematics. How far are we from understanding the neural mechanisms that allow us to acquire abstract concepts and symbols? Can we understand which cognitive toolkit is present in all brains since infancy, and how it changes with education? Can we separate the mechanisms of conscious and unconscious processing, and their respective cont