Stanislas Dehaene
Award Name : Grete Lundbeck European Brain Research Prize
Year of Award : 2014
Award for : Science and Engineering
Location : Palaiseau, Île-de-France, France
Stanislas Dehaene (born 12 May 1965) is a professor at the Collège de France, author, and (since 1989) director of INSERM Unit 562, "Cognitive Neuroimaging.He has worked on a number of topics, including numerical cognition, the neural basis of reading and the neural correlates of consciousness. Dehaene was one of ten people to be awarded the James S. McDonnell Foundation Centennial Fellowship in 1999 for his work on the "Cognitive Neuroscience of Numeracy". In 2003, together with Denis Le Bihan, Dehaene was awarded the Louis D. Prize from the Institut de France.He received Grete Lundbeck European Brain Research Prize in 2014.