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Stanislas Dehaene, PhDCollège de France
The neuroscientist who showed how the brain learns to read explains what changes in a child’s brain, why reading is not guessing, and what to do when reading progress stalls.
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The reading circuit
How learning to read connects vision to language
Illustration based on the model Dehaene presents in the MasterClass
Minute 0:00
Which region changes when a child learns to read —the “letterbox”— and why connecting letters and sounds is the key.
Minute 0:25
Why reading can break down at different stages and two practical aids you can use in class or in session.
Minute 0:31
Why explicit teaching beats “guessing” the word and which common practices do not help.
Minute 0:39
Attention, active engagement, error feedback and consolidation: how to apply them in any class or session.
From the lab to the classroom and the clinic
Every day, educators decide how to teach reading, how to support a learner who is not progressing, and how much reading speed matters. Many decisions are based on habit rather than evidence.
Dehaene has spent decades studying how the brain learns to read. In this MasterClass, he translates those findings into what matters in classrooms and clinical practice.
Two learners can make the same percentage of errors for different reasons. The type of error matters, not only the count.
No neuroscience background needed.
Dehaene explains with examples and images.
In English or Spanish.
Choose the original or simultaneous interpretation.
At your own pace.
One 1 h 30 min MasterClass you can watch in parts.
With pencil, paper and your finger.
His recommendations need no special materials.
Your instructor
French neuroscientist, professor of Experimental Cognitive Psychology at the Collège de France, and director of NeuroSpin, one of the world’s leading neuroimaging centers. Author of Reading in the Brain and How We Learn.
Recorded at the International Congress on Early Literacy.
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The experience of six international editions since 2023.
Voices of reference who have joined us
Dr. Stanislas DehaeneCollège de FranceCongress I & III
Dr. Howard GardnerHarvardCongress II
Dra. Catherine SnowHarvardCongress III
Dr. Robert StickgoldHarvardCongress IV
Dra. Adele DiamondUBCCongress IV
Dra. Patricia KuhlU. WashingtonCongress IIIMirror letters
Dehaene explains why mirror confusions are common when children start reading: the brain evolved to recognize an object as the same even when it is flipped, and learning to read means “unlearning” that symmetry.
One of the questions he answers in the audience Q&A.
Professional learning
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For teachers, learning specialists, speech-language therapists, psychologists and special-education professionals who teach reading or support children who are learning. It works in the classroom and in clinical practice.
Immediate, permanent access to the MasterClass by Stanislas Dehaene, PhD (1 h 30 min), in the original English and in Spanish with simultaneous interpretation, plus the presentation PDF in both languages. At checkout you can optionally add application materials and the certificate of participation.
It is recorded: watch it whenever you want, at your own pace, and pause or split it into parts.
Watch it in English (original) or Spanish (simultaneous interpretation). The presentation PDF is in both languages.
No. Dehaene explains with examples and images, for people who teach, not for researchers.
No: it is a MasterClass on how the brain learns to read and how to teach it better. It includes a block on the different kinds of dyslexia and two practical aids.
The certificate of participation is an optional add-on at checkout. It is issued when you complete the MasterClass.
Forever. Access does not expire.
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Your next reading lesson
“In reading, nothing is guessed.”
Picture your next class or session knowing why guessing does not work, what to look for in each error and how to direct attention to the letters.