Professor of experimental cognitive psychology, Collège de France
Stanislas Dehaene
Professor of experimental cognitive psychology
Collège de France
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Mathematical brains — an excerpt from ‘Seeing the Mind’
In this series of essays, newly published in English, cognitive neuroscientist Stanislas Dehaene taps brain images to help explain new findings.
Mathematical brains — an excerpt from ‘Seeing the Mind’
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Stanislas Dehaene
28 November 2023 | 12 min read
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