To learn to read is to enter language by vision instead of hearing. With new neural connections at stake.
Experts. Ghislaine Dehaene-Lambertz, pediatrician, director of research at the CNRS (left), and Stanislas Dehaene, neuroscientist, professor at the Collège de France (right), are working on understanding the human brain, particularly in children. The “geodesic net with 256 electrodes” they wear measures the electrical activity of neurons.
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SDoubtless even more than laughter, language is specific to man. And without language, there is no reading. How are all these faculties organized in our brain? Are they present from its formation? Or before ? It is to these questions – and many others – that Professor Ghislaine Dehaene-Lambertz tries to answer. Pediatrician and research director at the CNRS, she studies the development of cognitive functions in children using brain imaging techniques at two key stages of development: in the first months of life and at the start of primary school.
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