The exemplar of superhuman A.I. performance to date www.nytimes.com/2025/12/02/o...

A study on 1.7 million people in Hong Kong shows superior hybrid immunity to Covid in people who got vaccinated before infection vs. people who got infected first. "Our findings are a direct rebuttal to arguments for natural immunity," the authors write. doi.org/10.1016/j.va...

📣 Our latest brain-to-text decoding results from our Brain team is out: "Towards decoding individual words from non-invasive brain recordings" 📄 www.nature.com/articles/s41... 👥 Led by Stéphane d'Ascoli & w/ Corentin Bel, Jérémy RAPIN, Hubert Banville, Yohann Benchetrit and Christophe Pallier

Face à la pétition des professionnels orientés par la psychanalyse, 7 associations représentant des dizaines de milliers de familles d'enfants avec troubles neurodéveloppementaux défendent l'amendement 159 demandant le déremboursement des thérapies psychanalytiques: www.ffdys.com/actualites/s...

Pour en savoir plus sur l'évaluation des psychothérapies: ramus-meninges.fr/2012/04/23/l...

Émission frustrante. Soyons clairs: La psychanalyse : - ne fait pas progresser les enfants - s’appuie sur un fatras de chimères théoriques (œdipe, castration, jeux de mots Lacaniens) qu’on a encore entendues ce soir - conduit trop de CMPP à culpabiliser les parents au lieu de les outiller

We’re thrilled to announce that Professor Stanislas Dehaene (@standehaene.bsky.social, @college-de-france.fr) will deliver the SWC Lecture 2025! His talk: ‘The science of reading: From neuroscience to the classroom’ Get your tickets ⤵️ www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/the-swc-le...

📻18h20 Psychanalyse : pourquoi certains veulent dérembourser tous les soins ? Sur @franceculture.fr, @quentinlafay.bsky.social recevra les psychanalystes @elsagodart.bsky.social et Louis Sciara ainsi que @franckramus.bsky.social, chercheur en sciences cognitives

" #Ketamine disrupts #consciousness in healthy participants in relation with #psychotic-like symptoms" 🥸 This is the title of our last preprint @biorxiv-neursci.bsky.social giving some insights on how ketamine at subanesthetic doses mimicks psychosis symptoms! www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

This was a fabulous, once in a lifetime colloquium -- and now the videos are available in high quality on the College de France web site @college-de-france.fr www.college-de-france.fr/fr/agenda/co... With talks by Edvard Moser, Nancy Kanwisher, Liz Spelke, Manuela Piazza, Luca Bonatti and more!

"Intuitions of mathematical curves in young children's drawings" In this new paper from the lab, Lorenzo Ciccione, Marie Lubineau, Theo Morfoisse and I show that 5 and 6 year olds already possess intuitions of linearity, curvature, period and compositionality. www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Evidence for graded semantic tuning curves in human concept cells. Lovely work with Katharina Karkowski, Florian Mormann, Yair Lakretz, Marcel Kehl et al.

For your enjoyment (by @jagarikin)

In basic income experiment after basic income experiment, and cash program after cash program, a practically universal result of unconditionally providing money to pregnant women is that their nutrition improves, and as a result their babies are born healthier. youtu.be/z5biBPNlKJs?...

Agrawal, A., & Dehaene, S. (2025). From retinotopic to ordinal coding: Dissecting the cortical stages of visual word recognition. PNAS @standehaene.bsky.social @pnas.org doi.org/10.1073/pnas...

A new paper from the lab, using 7T fMRI and MEG to shed light on how we read, specifically how the visual system encodes strings of letters and moves from retinotopic to ordinal neural codes. www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

Our fantastic colloquium starts this Wednesday October 1st at Collège de France. Open to all, no registration required. Merci @college-de-france.fr

#Neurologie 🧠 « Seeing the Mind, Educating the Brain » 📌 Colloque en anglais organisé par le Pr @standehaene.bsky.social#Neurologie titulaire de la chaire #Psychologie cognitive expérimentale.  ⏰ 1er → 3 octobre 2025 👉 https://www.college-de-france.fr/fr/agenda/colloque/seeing-the-mind-educating-the-brain

“In Finland, the number of homeless people has fallen sharply. Those affected receive a small apartment & counselling with no preconditions. 4 out of 5 people affected make their way back into a stable life. And all this is CHEAPER than accepting homelessness.” It costs a lot less to house people.

#Art #Culture 🖼️ "Orsay vu par le Collège de France" 🖼️ Dialogues entre des professeurs Collège de France et les conservatrices et conservateurs du  @museeorsay.bsky.social. 🖼️ Avec les Prs Anne Cheng, Jean-Jacques Hublin, Henry Laurens et @standehaene.bsky.social . 👉 https://tinyurl.com/mvhdnw6v

Les capacités de concentration humaine sont-elles tombées en-dessous de celle d'un poisson rouge? Non, d'après une méta-analyse de 287 études sur 21000 participants dans 32 pays, elles sont restées stables de 2000 à 2020 (chez les enfants, et ont légèrement progressé chez les adultes).

Thank you! @college-de-france.fr archive, permitting to watch your lectures recorded 15 years ago, is truly outstanding.

An important upcoming meeting: sto.stanfordtickets.org/ethical-and-...

If you are in Paris on October 1-3 : we are organizing a fantastic cognitive neuroscience conference at Collège de France, on topics ranging from language to math, education and consciousness, with many of my favorite scientists ! Full program here: www.unicog.org/seeing-the-m...

Some numbers seem to show up everywhere. Think of 10, 12, 24, 36... Others—like 26 or 34—don’t get the same attention.Why? In our new paper with @standehaene.bsky.social and @mathiassablemeyer.bsky.social, we argue it's because of how the mind builds number concepts. 🧵 doi.org/10.1016/j.co...

I love the audacity of some nature/science papers on psych "you're wondering about nature v nurture? cool we studied ALL THE KIDS IN FRANCE" (upshot is that sex differences in math performance are driven by schooling, not age) www.nature.com/articles/s41...

New paper out in @commsbio.nature.com! @elicastaldi.bsky.social, Evelyn Eger, @manpiazza.bsky.social 🔢 We reveal how the brain represents numerosity across the entire visual system, from early visual areas to high-level association cortices. 👇 A thread 🔗 www.nature.com/articles/s42...

I was going through my open tabs and realized I forgot to highlight this great News & Views in @nature.com by John List and Andrew Simon discussing @standehaene.bsky.social et al's paper showing that a gender gap in math arises soon after children begin school 🧪 www.nature.com/articles/d41...

Droit de réponse à "l'enquête" de Marie Dupin, Cellule investigation de Radio France, France Info: ramus-meninges.fr/2025/06/20/d...

Do girls and boys really differ in their mathematical skills? A recent @nature.com paper by @standehaene.bsky.social et al shows that French boys and girls enter school with similar abilities, but after just four months, boys pull ahead 🧪 www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Je précise que l'article est purement descriptif, tout comme l'est la note de la DEPP documentant l'évolution de ces écarts au fil des niveaux scolaires. Toute hypothèse sur les causes de ces écarts est à ce stade hypothétique. www.education.gouv.fr/evolution-de...

Un résumé dans le Monde: www.lemonde.fr/sciences/art...

Publication dans la revue Nature de l'étude montrant l'apparition des écarts garçons-filles en mathématiques au cours du CP: www.nature.com/articles/s41... 🧵

#Éducation #Éducation #Genre Découvrez comment l'école primaire creuse les écarts en #mathématiques entre les filles et les garçons dans une étude publiée aujourd'hui dans @nature.com par le Pr @standehaene.bsky.social et par le Dr Pauline Martinot. 👉 www.college-de-france.fr/fr/actualite...

The European Research Council (ERC) decision to increase its support for leading researchers moving to Europe has today been formally adopted 🧪 erc.europa.eu/news-events/...

Lovely work — and yet another proof that perceptual integration, likely based on recurrent connections, can occur without awareness during the attentional blink. See also www.pnas.org/doi/full/10....

La croisade anti-écrans part en vrille. Pourquoi la tribune du 29 avril signée par cinq sociétés médicales est tout sauf un argumentaire rigoureux fondé sur des résultats probants. Ma nouvelle chronique en libre accès dans l'Express: www.lexpress.fr/sciences-san...

Congratulations to Adrienne Fairhall, Prof. of Neurobiology and Biophysics, Adjunct Prof. of Applied Mathematics, and Adjunct Prof. of Physics, who has just been elected to the National Academy of Sciences! 🍾 🎉

C'est assez hallucinant de voir un communiqué signé par 5 sociétés médicales qui soit à ce point bourré d'affirmations péremptoires non soutenues par les données scientifiques. www.sfsp.fr/images/25042... Exit la distinction corrélation-causalité, toute prudence a été abandonnée (comparé au 🧵

Inria is opening a Junior Professor Position (tenure track) at Saclay on the topic of Cognitive Computational Neuroscience. This junior professorship is part of the development of computational cognitive neuroscience within @univparissaclay.bsky.social #Neurospin @neuropsi.bsky.social and #inria

A great position opening at NeuroSpin— with access to the world’s strongest human MRI, the Iseult 11.7 Tesla magnet!

I’m interested in how we can better communicate genetic science, when cool soundbites may confuse more than they clarify. An example: “You share 98.8% of your genes with a chimpanzee!” Is this true? What does it really mean? Let’s unpack this oft-quoted pearl of wisdom in a 🧵 all about sharing. 🧪1/n

Le cycle de conférences « agir pour l’éducation » du Collège de France @collegedefrance.bsky.social se poursuit sur le thème « réenchanter les maths à l’école » Avec de nouvelles stars à venir: Naama Friedmann Monica Neagoy Emmanuel Sander www.college-de-france.fr/fr/agenda/gr...

New preprint from the lab: Aakash Agrawal and I use 7T fMRI and MEG to dissect the cortical stages of invariant word recognition and test our recent theoretical proposal of an ordinal letter code in the Visual Word Form Area (VWFA). www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

A huge thanks to Rockefeller University, and particularly to President Richard Lifton, for their wonderful hospitality!

Science is under threat in the US. @elife.bsky.social have commissioned a series of articles discussing the implications and what we can do. The first three articles are now live. More to follow: elifesciences.org/articles/106... elifesciences.org/articles/106... elifesciences.org/articles/106...

Après la crème quantique de Guerlain, voici les lunettes pour dyslexiques d'Atol (500 € quand même) basées sur une "découverte révolutionnaire française"... qui s'avère n'être qu'une étude douteuse à la méthodologie bancale et au conclusions plus que discutables. #Bullshit youtu.be/xxUX-DT1hAs?...

From Cambridge and NeuroSpin with love— congratulations to all the researchers and clinicians involved. The paper is here : onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....

A detailed model of conscious ignition in the primate brain, using realistic whole-brain connectivity and making validated predictions for AMPA/NMDA receptor ratios. Congratulations Ulysse!