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Stanislas Dehaene

Cognitive psychologist and consciousness theorist

Also known as S. Dehaene

Who they are

Stanislas Dehaene is a cognitive psychologist who studies the neural basis of reading, calculation, reasoning and consciousness. A professor at the Collège de France, he develops global neuronal workspace accounts of conscious access. He participated in COGITATE as a theory proponent, helping make competing explanations answer to agreed experimental predictions.

He appears in the comparison of consciousness theories and the attempt to test them through an adversarial collaboration.

Selected contributions

Participated in COGITATE as a global neuronal workspace theory proponent.Source ↗
Authored Consciousness and the Brain, introducing the research program to general readers.Source ↗

Selected works

Academic paper · 2025 · Peer-reviewed article
Adversarial testing of global neuronal workspace and integrated information theories of consciousness
Collaborator and global neuronal workspace theory proponent · Nature; full article in PubMed Central
The COGITATE consortium compares preregistered predictions from integrated information and global neuronal workspace theories using three types of brain measurements. The results support and challenge different predictions without declaring a complete theory of consciousness.
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Book · 2014
Consciousness and the Brain
Author · Penguin Books / Penguin Random House
Dehaene presents psychological experiments and brain-imaging research on conscious access, unconscious processing and global-workspace theory. The publisher’s description frames it as an account of a research program, useful background for the later COGITATE comparison.
The linked ISBN is the ebook published January 30, 2014.
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ISBN: 9780698151406