How can the brain explore itself?

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Face to Face with his brain.

© Odile Jacob

By: Caroline Lachowsky

1 min

How can the brain explore itself?

And how far?

Image research avenues, necessarily cerebral, by one of the most eminent French neuroscientists, Professor Stanislas Dehaene.

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Delighted to meet you for a face to face meeting with our brain, which in just a few decades has become almost transparent thanks to brain imaging and advances in neuroscience that have opened up the black box, our cranial box, but how far? How far is it possible for a brain to observe itself and what goes on there, as in a mirror revealing our deepest intimacy, our thoughts and all that we are. Our mind, our body, our memories, our will, our conscience (and all that in a kilo and a half of white and soft matter), explored in all its convolutions by our guest, Professor

Stanislas Dehaene.

With

Stanislas Dehaene, professor at the Collège de France

, holder of the Chair of Experimental Cognitive Psychology and member of the Academy of Sciences.

Since 2018, he has chaired the Scientific Council for National Education.

His new book

Face to face with his brain 

has just been published by Odile Jacob.

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