Pr Stanislas Dehaene teaches at the prestigious Collège de France. He is Chair of the Department of Experimental Cognitive Psychology, and one of the leading neuroscientists in the world.
Pr Dehaene studies the neural bases of language, bilingualism, reading abilities, calculation and consciousness. He resorts to medical imaging techniques and to psychological manipulations to uncover the cerebral activities involved in our cognitive processes.He also examines the relationship between culture and biology and how cerebral plasticity makes it possible for cultural inventions such as mathematics and reading, to actually transform the brain.
At the invitation of the Peter Wall Institute for Advanced Studies (UBC), Pr Dehaene will be in Vancouver until April 16, 2011. During his stay at UBC, he will give several lectures on the links between cognition and culture, the access to conscious activities, reading abilities and the processing of subliminal information by the brain.
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