We review the central tenets and neuroanatomical basis of the global neuronal workspace (GNW)
hypothesis, which attempts to account for the main scientific observations regarding …

Of the many brain events evoked by a visual stimulus, which are specifically associated with
conscious perception, and which merely reflect non-conscious processing? Several recent …

… Introduction Understanding the neuronal architectures that give rise to conscious experience
is one of the central unsolved problems of today’s neuroscience, despite its major clinical …

How is reading, a cultural invention, coded by neural populations in the human brain? The
neural code for written words must be abstract, because we can recognize words regardless …

There is evidence to suggest that animals, young infants and adult humans possess a
biologically determined, domain-specific representation of number and of elementary arithmetic …

Recent evidence of unconscious working memory challenges the notion that only visible
stimuli can be actively maintained over time. In the present study, we investigated the neural …

Does literacy improve brain function? Does it also entail losses? Using functional magnetic
resonance imaging, we measured brain responses to spoken and written language, visual …

… Dehaene begins with the eye-opening discovery that animals… Dehaene suggests that this
rudimentary number sense is as … The New York Times Book Review" Dehaene weaves the …

… Tasks were presented in runs of alternating blocks of trials with a 4-s intertrial interval,
separated by resting periods of 24 s. Four such runs were presented in semi-random order, two …

… We presented a total of 512 stimuli at a 3-s rate on a standard PC-compatible SVGA screen
(EGA mode, 70 Hz refresh rate). The electroencephalogram was digitized at 125 Hz from …