Stanislas Dehaene

Professor of experimental cognitive psychology
Collège de France

Professor of experimental cognitive psychology, Collège de France

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28 November 2023

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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.

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