Stanislas Dehaene

In this riveting investigation, Stanislas Dehaene provides an accessible account of the brain circuitry of reading and explores what he calls the "reading paradox": Our cortex is the product of millions of years of evolution in a world without writing, so how did it adapt to recognize words?

The New Science of how We Read

Reading in the Brain

"In today's technological society, with an unprecedented amount of information at our fingertips, learning plays a more central role than ever. In How We Learn, Stanislas Dehaene decodes its biological mechanisms, delving into the neuronal, synaptic, and molecular processes taking place in the brain. He explains why youth is such a sensitive period, during which brain plasticity is maximal, but also assures us that our abilities continue into adulthood, and that we can enhance our learning and memory at any age. We can all "learn to learn" by taking maximal advantage of the four pillars of the brain's learning algorithm: attention, active engagement, error feedback, and consolidation. The human brain is an extraordinary machine. Its ability to process information and adapt to circumstances by reprogramming itself is unparalleled, and it remains the best source of inspiration for recent developments in artificial intelligence. The exciting advancements in A.I. of the last twenty years reveal just as much about our remarkable abilities as they do about the potential of machines. How We Learn finds the boundary of computer science, neurobiology, and cognitive psychology to explain how learning really works and how to make the best use of the brain's learning algorithms, in our schools and universities as well as in everyday life"--

Why Brains Learn Better Than Any Machine ... for Now

How We Learn

Consciousness and the Brain: Deciphering How the Brain Codes Our Thoughts

Describes experiments that show how the brain encodes the knowledge of numbers and creates mathematics, and traces the cultural history of numbers

How the Mind Creates Mathematics

The Number Sense

WINNER OF THE 2014 BRAIN PRIZE From the acclaimed author of Reading in the Brain and How We Learn, a breathtaking look at the new science that can track consciousness deep in the brain How does our brain generate a conscious thought? And why does so much of our knowledge remain unconscious? Thanks to clever psychological and brain-imaging experiments, scientists are closer to cracking this mystery than ever before. In this lively book, Stanislas Dehaene describes the pioneering work his lab and the labs of other cognitive neuroscientists worldwide have accomplished in defining, testing, and explaining the brain events behind a conscious state. We can now pin down the neurons that fire when a person reports becoming aware of a piece of information and understand the crucial role unconscious computations play in how we make decisions. The emerging theory enables a test of consciousness in animals, babies, and those with severe brain injuries. A joyous exploration of the mind and its thrilling complexities, Consciousness and the Brain will excite anyone interested in cutting-edge science and technology and the vast philosophical, personal, and ethical implications of finally quantifying consciousness.

Deciphering how the Brain Codes Our Thoughts

Consciousness and the Brain

A lavishly illustrated and accessibly explained deep dive into the major new findings from cognitive neuroscience. Who are we? To this age-old question, contemporary neuroscience gives a simple answer: we are exquisite neuronal machines. Each of our dreams, thoughts, and feelings arises from a pattern of activity in our brain. In Stanislas Dehaene’s Seeing the Mind, we learn not only that the mind maps onto the brain, but that it is just a complex electrical motif on the tapestry of our neurons. In this richly illustrated and highly accessible book, Dehaene uses the power of brain images to tell the story of centuries-old efforts to understand who we are, and how it is possible that our thoughts emerge from just three pounds of flesh. Seeing the Mind is divided into one hundred topics, each described by a spectacular full-page color image and, on the facing page, a brief text that explains what this image means and why it matters. By weaving together images and text, the book brings readers into the intimacy of their own brains. As Dehaene explains, “All the gorgeous biological processes that you are about to discover are taking place, right now, inside your own brain.” A modern cabinet of curiosities, Seeing the Mind is an intriguing and memorable read that will astonish readers with a direct, face-to-face meeting with themselves—and with the material stuff of their thoughts and dreams.

Spectacular Images from Neuroscience, and What They Reveal about Our Neuronal Selves

Seeing the Mind

Humanity's greatest feat is our incredible ability to learn. Even in their first year, infants acquire language, visual and social knowledge at a rate that surpasses the best supercomputers. But how, exactly, do our brains learn? In How We Learn, leading neuroscientist Stanislas Dehaene delves into the psychological, neuronal, synaptic and molecular mechanisms of learning. Drawing on case studies of children who learned despite huge difficulty and trauma, he explains why youth is such a sensitive period, during which brain plasticity is maximal, but also assures us that our abilities continue into adulthood. We can all enhance our learning and memory at any age and 'learn to learn' by taking maximal advantage of the four pillars of the brain's learning algorithm: attention, active engagement, error feedback and consolidation. The human brain is an extraordinary machine. Its ability to process information and adapt to circumstances by reprogramming itself is unparalleled, and it remains the best source of inspiration for recent developments in artificial intelligence. How We Learn finds the boundary of computer science, neurobiology, cognitive psychology and education to explain how learning really works and how to make the best use of the brain's learning algorithms - and even improve them - in our schools and universities as well as in everyday life.

The New Science of Education and the Brain

dlaczego mózgi uczą się lepiej niż komputery ... jak dotąd

Jak się uczymy?

“There are words that are so familiar they obscure rather than illuminate the thing they mean, and ‘learning’ is such a word. It seems so ordinary, everyone does it. Actually it’s more of a black box, which Dehaene cracks open to reveal the awesome secrets within.”--The New York Times Book Review An illuminating dive into the latest science on our brain's remarkable learning abilities and the potential of the machines we program to imitate them The human brain is an extraordinary learning machine. Its ability to reprogram itself is unparalleled, and it remains the best source of inspiration for recent developments in artificial intelligence. But how do we learn? What innate biological foundations underlie our ability to acquire new information, and what principles modulate their efficiency? In How We Learn, Stanislas Dehaene finds the boundary of computer science, neurobiology, and cognitive psychology to explain how learning really works and how to make the best use of the brain’s learning algorithms in our schools and universities, as well as in everyday life and at any age.

Why Brains Learn Better Than Any Machine . . . for Now

Bilinc ve Beyin

I neuroni della lettura

¿Cómo pienso? ¿Qué este "yo" que parece el hacedor de ese pensamiento? ¿Yo sería distinto si hubiera nacido en una época diferente, en otro lugar o en otro cuerpo? ¿Adónde voy cuando me duermo, cuando sueño, cuando muero? ¿Todo eso se origina en mi cerebro? Estas preguntas acuciaron a sabios y legos de todas las épocas. Pero hasta hace apenas dos o tres décadas, la ciencia no se atrevía a enfrentarlas. Hoy en día, gracias al avance de las técnicas que permiten obtener imágenes del cerebro en funcionamiento, el problema de la conciencia entró a los laboratorios y está a la vanguardia de la investigación experimental. Este libro cuenta cómo cambiaron las cosas y cómo la neurociencia comienza a abordar grandes desafíos. El reconocido neurocientífico Stanislas Dehaene nos guía por los descubrimientos que develan el código de nuestro pensamiento y también por "el lado oscuro" de la conciencia, un cúmulo gigantesco de actividad inconsciente que tiene consecuencias en nuestra conducta sin que nos enteremos siquiera. Al detectar las marcas de la conciencia, examina también en qué medida esas huellas están presentes en experiencias como los sueños, el estado vegetativo, el coma, la recuperación de un ACV o la esquizofrenia. Pero la contribución fundamental presente en estas páginas es la teoría del espacio de trabajo global, que permite dar cuenta de cómo el cerebro procesa nuestro entorno y genera información que podemos usar con flexibilidad, comunicar a otros y recordar. Lleno de historias y experimentos, La conciencia en el cerebro es la explicación más completa y sofisticada con que contamos hasta el momento sobre las bases neurales de la experiencia consciente, esa que define quiénes somos o creemos ser. Dehaene, autor de estilo exquisito, propone una emocionante travesía por la materia de nuestro terrenal pero descomunalmente poderoso cerebro en busca de la mente, esa experiencia ilimitada con que construimos las comarcas de la imaginación y la memoria.

Descifrando el enigma de cómo el cerebro elabora nuestros pensamientos

La conciencia en el cerebro

Empirical and theoretical foundations of a cognitive neuroscience ofconsciousness.

The Cognitive Neuroscience of Consciousness

Il nostro cervello ha, fin dalla nascita, un talento che nemmeno i migliori software di intelligenza artificiale riescono ancora a imitare: la capacità di imparare. Persino il cervello di un bambino impara più velocemente e in modo più approfondito del più potente dei computer in circolazione oggi. Negli ultimi trent’anni sono stati fatti passi importanti nella comprensione dei principi fondamentali della plasticità cerebrale e dell’apprendimento. È tempo che adulti e bambini prendano coscienza del potenziale enorme del proprio cervello, così come, ovviamente, dei suoi limiti. Il funzionamento della memoria, il ruolo dell’attenzione, l’importanza del sonno sono scoperte ricche di conseguenze per ciascuno di noi. Delle idee molto semplici sul gioco, il piacere, la curiosità, la socializzazione, la concentrazione o il sonno possono aumentare ancora quello che è già il più grande talento del nostro cervello: imparare!

Il talento del cervello, la sfida delle macchine

Imparare

Oui, la bosse des maths existe ! Enfants ou adultes, calculateurs prodiges ou simples mortels, nous venons tous au monde avec une intuition des nombres. Peut-on localiser des zones spécifiques du cerveau ? L’imagerie cérébrale permet-elle d’identifier les neurones dédiés aux mathématiques ? Et comment aider l’enfant qui rencontre des difficultés à calculer ?Pour comprendre pourquoi vous n’arrivez pas à retenir 7 x 8, comment une lésion cérébrale peut vous faire oublier 3 – 1 ou comment apprendre à extraire la racine cinquième de 759 375, suivez l’auteur dans les circonvolutions cérébrales de La Bosse des maths !« Le livre de Stanislas Dehaene allie qualité scientifique et richesse des références historiques. Une lecture passionnante qui conduit des animaux mathématiciens aux bébés qui comptent et aux calculateurs prodiges. Une très belle illustration des sciences cognitives. » La Recherche.﻿Stanislas Dehaene est professeur au Collège de France, titulaire de la chaire de psychologie cognitive expérimentale et membre de l’Académie des sciences. Il a publié Les Neurones de la lecture, qui a rencontré un très grand succès.

Quinze ans après

La Bosse des maths

Yves Christen

Fifteen of the foremost scientists in this field presented testable theoretical models of consciousness and discussed how our understanding of the role that consciousness plays in our cognitive processes is being refined with some surprising results.

Characterizing Consciousness: From Cognition to the Clinic?

The Number Sense is an enlightening exploration of the mathematical mind. Describing experiments that show that human infants have a rudimentary number sense, Stanislas Dehaene suggests that this sense is as basic as our perception of color, and that it is wired into the brain. Dehaene shows that it was the invention of symbolic systems of numerals that started us on the climb to higher mathematics. A fascinating look at the crossroads where numbers and neurons intersect, The Number Sense offers an intriguing tour of how the structure of the brain shapes our mathematical abilities, and how our mathematics opens up a window on the human mind.

The Number Sense: How the Mind Creates Mathematics

Elizabeth Brannon

The study of mathematical cognition and the ways in which the ideas of space, time and number are encoded in brain circuitry has become a fundamental issue for neuroscience. How such encoding differs across cultures and educational level is of further interest in education and neuropsychology. This rapidly expanding field of research is overdue for an interdisciplinary volume such as this, which deals with the neurological and psychological foundations of human numeric capacity. A uniquely integrative work, this volume provides a much needed compilation of primary source material to researchers from basic neuroscience, psychology, developmental science, neuroimaging, neuropsychology and theoretical biology. The first comprehensive and authoritative volume dealing with neurological and psychological foundations of mathematical cognition Uniquely integrative volume at the frontier of a rapidly expanding interdisciplinary field Features outstanding and truly international scholarship, with chapters written by leading experts in a variety of fields

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