The cerebral representation of sequences and roles : investigating the origins of human uniqueness.

Project Information

NeuroSyntax

Grant agreement ID: 695403

DOI 10.3030/695403

Project closed

EC signature date 22 September 2016

Start date 1 October 2016

End date 31 March 2022

Funded under

• EXCELLENT SCIENCE - European Research Council (ERC)

Total cost € 2 499 746,66

EU contribution € 2 499 746,66

Coordinated by

COMMISSARIAT A L ENERGIE ATOMIQUE ET AUX ENERGIES ALTERNATIVES
France

Publications

Peer reviewed articles (17)

A theory of memory for binary sequences: Evidence for a mental compression algorithm in humans

Author(s): Samuel Planton, Timo van Kerkoerle, Leïla Abbih, Maxime Maheu, Florent Meyniel, Mariano Sigman, Liping Wang, Santiago Figueira, Sergio Romano, Stanislas Dehaene
Published in: PLOS computational biology, 2021, ISSN 1553-734X
Publisher: Public Library of Science
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pcbi.1008598

Sensitivity to geometric shape regularity in humans and baboons: A putative signature of human singularity

Author(s): Mathias Sablé-Meyer, Joël Fagot, Serge Caparos, Timo van Kerkoerle, Marie Amalric, Stanislas Dehaene
Published in: Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A, 2021, ISSN 0027-8424
Publisher: National Academy of Sciences
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.2023123118

Cerebral representation of sequence patterns across multiple presentation formats

Author(s): Samuel Planton; Stanislas Dehaene; Stanislas Dehaene
Published in: Cortex, 2021, ISSN 0010-9452
Publisher: Masson Publishing
DOI: 10.1016/j.cortex.2021.09.003

Mental compression of spatial sequences in human working memory using numerical and geometrical primitives

Author(s): Fosca Al Roumi, Sébastien Marti, Liping Wang, Marie Amalric, Stanislas Dehaene
Published in: Neuron, 2021, ISSN 0896-6273
Publisher: Cell Press
DOI: 10.1016/j.neuron.2021.06.009

Rational arbitration between statistics and rules in human sequence processing

Author(s): Maxime Maheu, Florent Meyniel, Stanislas Dehaene
Published in: Nature Human Behaviour, 2022, ISSN 2397-3374
Publisher: Springer Nature Limited
DOI: 10.1038/s41562-021-01259-6

Neurophysiological dynamics of phrase-structure building during sentence processing

Author(s): Matthew J. Nelson, Imen El Karoui, Kristof Giber, Xiaofang Yang, Laurent Cohen, Hilda Koopman, Sydney S. Cash, Lionel Naccache, John T. Hale, Christophe Pallier, Stanislas Dehaene
Published in: Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Issue 114/18, 2017, Page(s) E3669-E3678, ISSN 0027-8424
Publisher: National Academy of Sciences
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1701590114

Cortical circuits for mathematical knowledge: evidence for a major subdivision within the brain's semantic networks

Author(s): Marie Amalric, Stanislas Dehaene
Published in: Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences, Issue 373/1740, 2017, Page(s) 20160515, ISSN 0962-8436
Publisher: Royal Society of London
DOI: 10.1098/rstb.2016.0515

The language of geometry: Fast comprehension of geometrical primitives and rules in human adults and preschoolers

Author(s): Marie Amalric, Liping Wang, Pierre Pica, Santiago Figueira, Mariano Sigman, Stanislas Dehaene
Published in: PLOS Computational Biology, Issue 13/1, 2017, Page(s) e1005273, ISSN 1553-7358
Publisher: PLOS
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pcbi.1005273

Human Inferences about Sequences: A Minimal Transition Probability Model

Author(s): Florent Meyniel, Maxime Maheu, Stanislas Dehaene
Published in: PLOS Computational Biology, Issue 12/12, 2016, Page(s) e1005260, ISSN 1553-7358
Publisher: PLOS
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pcbi.1005260

Brain correlates of constituent structure in sign language comprehension

Author(s): Antonio Moreno, Fanny Limousin, Stanislas Dehaene, Christophe Pallier
Published in: NeuroImage, Issue 167, 2018, Page(s) 151-161, ISSN 1053-8119
Publisher: Academic Press
DOI: 10.1016/j.neuroimage.2017.11.040

On-line confidence monitoring during decision making

Author(s): Dror Dotan, Florent Meyniel, Stanislas Dehaene
Published in: Cognition, Issue 171, 2018, Page(s) 112-121, ISSN 0010-0277
Publisher: Elsevier BV
DOI: 10.1016/j.cognition.2017.11.001

Brain signatures of a multiscale process of sequence learning in humans

Author(s): Maxime Maheu, Stanislas Dehaene, Florent Meyniel
Published in: eLife, Issue 8, 2019, ISSN 2050-084X
Publisher: eLife Sciences Publications
DOI: 10.7554/elife.41541

Decoding the processing stages of mental arithmetic with magnetoencephalography

Author(s): Pedro Pinheiro-Chagas, Manuela Piazza, Stanislas Dehaene
Published in: Cortex, Issue 114, 2019, Page(s) 124-139, ISSN 0010-9452
Publisher: Masson Publishing
DOI: 10.1016/j.cortex.2018.07.018

A distinct cortical network for mathematical knowledge in the human brain

Author(s): Marie Amalric, Stanislas Dehaene
Published in: NeuroImage, Issue 189, 2019, Page(s) 19-31, ISSN 1053-8119
Publisher: Academic Press
DOI: 10.1016/j.neuroimage.2019.01.001

Representation of spatial sequences using nested rules in human prefrontal cortex

Author(s): Liping Wang, Marie Amalric, Wen Fang, Xinjian Jiang, Christophe Pallier, Santiago Figueira, Mariano Sigman, Stanislas Dehaene
Published in: NeuroImage, Issue 186, 2019, Page(s) 245-255, ISSN 1053-8119
Publisher: Academic Press
DOI: 10.1016/j.neuroimage.2018.10.061

Production of Supra-regular Spatial Sequences by Macaque Monkeys

Author(s): Xinjian Jiang, Tenghai Long, Weicong Cao, Junru Li, Stanislas Dehaene, Liping Wang
Published in: Current Biology, Issue 28/12, 2018, Page(s) 1851-1859.e4, ISSN 0960-9822
Publisher: Cell Press
DOI: 10.1016/j.cub.2018.04.047

On the role of visual experience in mathematical development: Evidence from blind mathematicians

Author(s): Marie Amalric, Isabelle Denghien, Stanislas Dehaene
Published in: Developmental Cognitive Neuroscience, Issue 30, 2018, Page(s) 314-323, ISSN 1878-9293
Publisher: Elsevier BV
DOI: 10.1016/j.dcn.2017.09.007

Conference proceedings (2)

Entropy Reduction correlates with temporal lobe activity.

Author(s): Nelson, M., Dehaene, S., Pallier, C., & Hale, J.
Published in: Proceedings of the 7th Workshop on Cognitive Modeling and Computational Linguistics (CMCL 2017), 2017
Publisher: ?

The emergence of number and syntax units in LSTM language models

Author(s): Lakretz, Y., Kruszewski, G., Desbordes, T., Hupkes, D., Dehaene, S., & Baroni, M.
Published in: NAACL, 2019
Publisher: NAACL