https://joliot.cea.fr/drf/joliot/en/Pages/news/Science/2019/Activity-silent-non-conscious-working-memory-at-work.aspx Website of the Frédéric-Joliot Institute of Life Sciences which includes 4 departments: I2BC, DMTS, NeuroSpin and Service hospitalier Frédéric Joliot (SHFJ). The teams are mainly located at the CEA Paris-Saclay center and at the Orsay hospital. en-US https://www.cea.fr/Style%20Library/Themes/drf/instituts/images/logo-cea-joliot-2023.png https://joliot.cea.fr/drf/joliot/en https://www.cea.fr/drf/joliot/en/Pages/news/Science/2026/Beta-brain-waves-sensory-features-autists.aspx Using high-resolution electroencephalography, a team from NeuroSpin has identified a significant link between the power of beta brain waves and hyper- and hypo-sensory particularities in autistic individuals aged between 5 and 17. Brain ; Cognition Neurospin Scientific result ; Headlines Fri, 10 Jul 2026 10:00:00 GMT https://www.cea.fr/drf/joliot/en/Pages/news/Science/2026/Subject-fingerprinting-task-classification-distinct-connectivity-features.aspx A team from NeuroSpin measured brain connectivity patterns using functional MRI data from a deep-phenotyping dataset involving several tasks (watching movies, listening to stories). The authors showed that sparse partial correlation is more effective for identifying individuals, whereas standard correlation performs better for distinguishing and classifying different cognitive tasks Brain ; Cognition ; MRI ; Artificial intelligence Neurospin Scientific result ; Headlines Fri, 29 May 2026 10:00:00 GMT https://www.cea.fr/drf/joliot/en/Pages/news/Science/2026/Non-monotonic-cerebral-code-event-probability.aspx A team from NeuroSpin designed an original learning paradigm to identify the brain code representing the probability of an event occurring. Results obtained using ultra-high-field functional MRI show that fronto-parietal regions encode this probability and that its representation relies on a highly non-monotonic code. Cognition ; Brain ; MRI Neurospin Scientific result ; Headlines Wed, 22 Apr 2026 10:00:00 GMT https://www.cea.fr/drf/joliot/en/Pages/news/Science/2026/Auditory-environment-superior-temporal-sulcus-depth-neonatal.aspx A team from NeuroSpin investigated the impact of contrasting auditory environments on the morphology of the superior temporal sulcus (STS) in preterm newborns. By showing that exposure to music is associated with a deeper STS, the authors suggest that early auditory experience influences the structural development of temporal brain regions. Brain ; MRI ; Cognition Neurospin Scientific result ; Article Mon, 23 Feb 2026 11:00:00 GMT https://www.cea.fr/drf/joliot/en/Pages/news/Science/2025/Statistical-learning-beyond-words-human-neonates.aspx Ghislaine Dehaene's team (NeuroSpin) carried out EEG experiments on neonates to find out whether statistical learning was a mechanism dedicated solely to language acquisition. By exploiting the speaker identity and phonemes, the researchers conclude that statistical learning mechanisms are universal and not limited to linguistic characteristics. Cognition ; Learning ; Brain Neurospin Scientific result Tue, 22 Jul 2025 10:00:00 GMT https://www.cea.fr/drf/joliot/en/Pages/news/Science/2025/How-does-brain-remember-duration-of-events.aspx A behavioural study conducted by a NeuroSpin team assessed the brain's processing of duration in working memory by having participants memorise a sequence of time intervals and then reproduce the duration of each interval. The results suggest that the brain processes the duration of each event as separate information. Brain ; Cognition Neurospin Scientific result ; Article Mon, 05 May 2025 10:00:00 GMT https://www.cea.fr/drf/joliot/en/Pages/news/Science/2024/IBC3-mapping-cognitive-functions-naturalistic-stimuli.aspx Several NeuroSpin researchers have taken part in the Individual Brain Charting (IBC) project, aimed at creating a precise map of the cognitive functions of the human brain. In this third phase, they are using the Fast Shared Response Model to analyze large-scale fMRI data and model responses to natural stimuli involving the visual, auditory and language systems. MRI ; Brain ; Cognition Neurospin Scientific result ; Article Wed, 30 Oct 2024 11:00:00 GMT https://www.cea.fr/drf/joliot/en/Pages/news/Science/2024/neuromodulatory-nuclei-Alzheimer-and-related-disorders.aspx A team from GHU Paris and SHFJ has used brain MRI to study the integrity of the locus coeruleus and nucleus basalis of Meynert in patients with early-onset Alzheimer's disease (AD), age-related TDP-43 encephalopathy (LATE) and fronto-temporal dementia (FTD). Both structures are altered in early AD, LATE and probably FTD, making these neuromodulatory areas potential therapeutic targets Diseases ; Brain ; Cognition ; MRI ; Positron Emission Tomography ; Alzheimer's disease Neurospin Scientific result Wed, 16 Oct 2024 10:00:00 GMT https://www.cea.fr/drf/joliot/en/Pages/news/Science/2024/Functional-brain-connectivity-emotional-states-bipolar-disorder.aspx A study conducted by NeuroSpin researchers reveals abnormalities in functional brain connectivity in the sub-nucleus region of the amygdala (emotion center), in patients with bipolar disorder. These anomalies, which depend on whether the patient is depressed or manic, are potential biomarkers of interest. Brain ; MRI ; Cognition ; Diseases Neurospin Scientific result Mon, 30 Sep 2024 10:00:00 GMT https://www.cea.fr/drf/joliot/en/Pages/news/Science/2024/Associative-learning-complex-auditory-sequences.aspx A NeuroSpin team analyzed the MEG response of volunteers exposed to auditory sequences organized in network. Finding that participants' brain activity was sensitive to the structure of the network, it concluded that learning the structure of auditory sequences involves a single cognitive process, associative learning. Cognition ; Brain ; Learning Neurospin Scientific result Wed, 17 Jul 2024 10:00:00 GMT https://www.cea.fr/drf/joliot/en/Pages/news/Science/2024/Correlation-structure-cerebellum-cognitive-functions.aspx A collaborative study led by NeuroSpin researchers analyzed anatomical MRI images of 662 young subjects from the Healthy Brain Network cohort, to map different features of cognitive function linked to cerebellar structure. It shows that there is a complex association between key cognitive functions and particular lobules of the cerebellum. Brain ; Cognition ; MRI Neurospin Scientific result Fri, 05 Jul 2024 10:00:00 GMT https://www.cea.fr/drf/joliot/en/Pages/news/Press/2024/world-premiere-living-brain-imaged-with-unrivaled-clarity-thanks-to-world-most-powerful-MRI-machine.aspx ​The CEA is revealing a series of in vivo human brain images acquired with the Iseult MRI machine and its unmatched 11.7 teslas magnetic field strength. This success is the fruit of more than 20 years of R&D as part of the Iseult project, with one pillar goal being to design and build the world’s most powerful MRI machine. Its ambition is to study healthy and diseased human brains with an unprecedented resolution, allowing us to discover new details relating to the brain’s anatomy, connections, and activity. Health ＆ life sciences ; Brain ; Medical imaging ; Neurodegenerative diseases ; Cognition Journalists ; Institutions ; general public ; Researchers ; Young people ; Companies Irfu Press release Tue, 02 Apr 2024 10:00:00 GMT https://www.cea.fr/drf/joliot/en/Pages/news/Science/2024/Cognitive-neurosciences-perception-of-time.aspx A team from NeuroSpin has recently published 3 papers that address the question of how we perceive time from a cognitive neuroscience perspective, using real-life temporal experiments, laboratory experiments and MEG brainwave measurements indicative of the passage of time, and that shed light on how the brain constructs our experience of lived time. Brain ; Cognition Neurospin Scientific result Tue, 27 Feb 2024 11:00:00 GMT https://www.cea.fr/drf/joliot/en/Pages/news/Science/2024/Quantities-representation-brain-fMRI-UHF.aspx In a study published in Nature Communications, researchers from UNICOG and BAOBAB use high-field functional MRI to reveal the brain areas where the representations of quantities generated by a mental arithmetic operation are encoded. Cognition Researchers Neurospin Scientific result Wed, 31 Jan 2024 11:00:00 GMT https://www.cea.fr/drf/joliot/en/Pages/news/Science/2024/Dyslexia-devices.aspx Devices such as lights and strobe glasses that are supposed to make reading easier for dyslexic people actually have no impact. These are the findings of a study conducted by a team from UNICOG (NeuroSpin) and published in the journal Proceedings Royal Society. Cognition Scientific result ; Article Sun, 28 Jan 2024 11:00:00 GMT https://www.cea.fr/drf/joliot/en/Pages/news/Science/2023/Neural-representation-uncertainty-consensus.aspx In a review article published in Nature Neuroscience, researchers, including Florent Meyniel from UNICOG (NeuroSpin), show that the two dominant approaches to the neural representation of uncertainty are complementary and would benefit from being used synergistically. Cognition Scientific result ; Article Fri, 17 Nov 2023 11:00:00 GMT https://www.cea.fr/drf/joliot/en/Pages/news/Science/2023/Low-frequency-neuronal-oscillations-MEG.aspx NeuroSpin researchers show that spontaneous neuronal oscillations in the 'delta' frequency band (0.5-3 Hz), the wave of unconscious states, can be observed in awake human volunteers using MEG. A step towards characterizing underlying physiological signals? Brain ; Cognition Neurospin Scientific result ; Article Wed, 18 Oct 2023 10:00:00 GMT https://www.cea.fr/drf/joliot/en/Pages/news/Science/2023/Relationship-cerebellar-structure-social-abilities-young-autistic.aspx A collaborative study by NeuroSpin researchers, using anatomical MRI data and a dimensional approach in 850 subjects from the Healthy Brain Network cohort, shows how the social skills of these children and adolescents are linked to the structure of their cerebellum Brain ; Cognition ; MRI Neurospin Scientific result Tue, 12 Sep 2023 10:00:00 GMT https://www.cea.fr/drf/joliot/en/Pages/news/Science/2023/Parole-integrations-informations-visuelles-et-auditives.aspx Une étude dirigée par une équipe d’UNICOG montre que le cerveau humain optimise l’intégration des informations auditives et visuelles de la parole à différentes échelles anatomiques et fonctionnelles, grâce à un ensemble de réseaux neuronaux hiérarchiquement imbriqués et synchronisés. Brain ; Cognition Scientific result Tue, 25 Jul 2023 10:00:00 GMT https://www.cea.fr/drf/joliot/en/Pages/news/Science/2023/Neural-representation-confidence-probabilistic-learning.aspx Using a dynamic probability learning task and high-field (7T) fMRI, a NeuroSpin team identifies regions in parietal and frontal cortex involved in the neural representation of prediction confidence during human learning Brain ; Cognition Neurospin Scientific result Wed, 10 May 2023 10:00:00 GMT https://www.cea.fr/drf/joliot/en/Pages/news/Institute/2022/ERC-Starting-Grant-Timo-van-Kerkoerle-NeuroSpin.aspx Timo van Kerkoerle, researcher at NeuroSpin, is one of the 408 winners of the prestigious ERC Starting Grant 2022 call of the European Research Council. Another European success for the Institute. Cognition Neurospin Success ; Europe Tue, 22 Nov 2022 11:00:00 GMT https://www.cea.fr/drf/joliot/en/Pages/news/Science/2022/Blursday-resource-to-understand-our-time-perception-during-lockdown.aspx The participative study on our time perception during the confinement, led by Virginie van Wassenhove (NeuroSpin), provides the first open database, Blursday, which analyzes the nature of the alterations in our relationship to time during physical and social distancing, as we experienced during the Covid-19 pandemic. Brain ; Cognition Neurospin Scientific result Mon, 19 Sep 2022 10:00:00 GMT https://www.cea.fr/drf/joliot/en/Pages/news/Science/2022/Specificity-of-reading-and-face-recognition-cerebral-circuits.aspx By measuring fMRI responses to written words, faces, houses and checkerboards in three groups of children, pre-readers and beginning readers aged 6 and advanced readers aged 9, a team from UNICOG (NeuroSpin) shows that reading acquisition recycles and specializes a pre-existing but plastic visual circuit connected to language areas. Brain ; MRI ; Learning Neurospin Scientific result Mon, 12 Sep 2022 10:00:00 GMT https://www.cea.fr/drf/joliot/en/Pages/news/Science/2022/Predicting-cognitives-activities-fMRI-maps.aspx A NeuroSpin team succeeded in decoding a large set of human mental processes by training neural networks to predict cognitive labels from a cognitive atlas and by leveraging the data set of NeuroVault, a web-based database for collecting and sharing statistical maps of the human brain. Brain ; Cognition ; MRI ; Artificial intelligence Neurospin Scientific result Thu, 30 Jun 2022 10:00:00 GMT https://www.cea.fr/drf/joliot/en/Pages/news/Science/2022/Integration-multisensory-temporal-coincidences.aspx A team at NeuroSpin, in collaboration with the University of Ulm (Germany), published a study in Nature Communications that suggests the existence of multisensory correlation detectors in the human brain. Brain ; Cognition Researchers Neurospin Scientific result Wed, 18 May 2022 10:00:00 GMT https://www.cea.fr/drf/joliot/en/Pages/news/Press/2022/The-New-York-Times-geometrie-NeuroSpin.aspx In an article in the New York Times, Stanislas Dehaene (NeuroSpin director) and Mathias Sablé-Meyer (PhD student) discuss recent results obtained in collaboration with the Collège de France, the CNRS and the University of Paris 8 that show that humans have a universal capacity to understand abstract geometric concepts. Cognition ; Artificial intelligence Researchers ; general public Neurospin réseaux neuronaux;modélisation;psychologie exoérimentale;réseaux convolutionnels;cognition comparée; Thu, 31 Mar 2022 10:00:00 GMT https://www.cea.fr/drf/joliot/en/Pages/news/Science/2022/thalamus-DBS-signatures-conscience.aspx Using fMRI and EEG, NeuroSpin and ICM researchers show that deep brain stimulation of the central part of the thalamus restores the richness of brain activity specific to consciousness, which is "switched off" in an anesthetized non-human primate. This work paves the way for clinical studies in patients with consciousness disorders. Cognition ; MRI Researchers Neurospin Scientific result Sat, 26 Mar 2022 11:00:00 GMT https://www.cea.fr/drf/joliot/en/Pages/news/Science/2022/IA-predict-like-brain-gated-recurrence.aspx Two researchers of UNICOG/NeuroSpin show that a gated recurrence model of neural networks would allow to make efficient and simple predictions, like our brain, in different environments. In addition to being biologically plausible, this model would be generalizable. Brain ; Artificial intelligence ; Cognition Researchers Neurospin Scientific result sciences cognitives;Bayes; Thu, 17 Feb 2022 11:00:00 GMT https://www.cea.fr/drf/joliot/en/Pages/news/Science/2022/Genetic-architecture-language-functional-connectivity.aspx Using data from the UK Biobank, the world's largest general population imaging-genetics cohort, a collaboration led by a team at BAOBAB (NeuroSpin) has identified genes involved in the genetic architecture of language functional connectivity. These genes could be a priority for studying natural language. Brain ; MRI ; Cognition ; Genomics Neurospin Scientific result Mon, 14 Feb 2022 11:00:00 GMT https://www.cea.fr/drf/joliot/en/Pages/news/Science/2021/CNN-accounting-for-emergence-of-specific-region-underlying-orthographic-coding.aspx ​Researchers from NeuroSpin designed, trained and tested biologically plausible artificial deep neural networks to identify pictures and written words. They show that these may suffice to account for emergence during reading acquisition of the visual word form area, a specific region underlying orthographic coding. Cognition ; Artificial intelligence Researchers Neurospin Scientific result Tue, 30 Nov 2021 11:00:00 GMT https://www.cea.fr/drf/joliot/en/Pages/news/Science/2021/Combinatorial-neural-code-speech-infant.aspx Researchers at UNICOG (NeuroSpin) show, using a high-resolution electroencephalographic system, that speech, an extremely complex and variable acoustic signal, is perceived by infants as a sequence of stable and invariant segments through an encoding based on distinctive and orthogonal phonetic features, such as manner and place of articulation, which are secondarily combined into phonemes, such as ″b″ or ″m″. Brain ; Cognition Scientific result Tue, 14 Sep 2021 10:00:00 GMT https://www.cea.fr/drf/joliot/en/Pages/news/Science/2021/Humains-geometrie.aspx Research from CEA, Collège de France, CNRS and Université Paris 8 shows that humans share a universal ability to understand abstract geometric concepts. This human ability does not depend on age, culture or education, but does not exist in the non-human primates tested. PNAS has just published their results. Cognition Researchers Neurospin Scientific result réseaux neuronaux;modélisation;cognition comparée;psychologie expérimentale; Fri, 23 Apr 2021 10:00:00 GMT https://www.cea.fr/drf/joliot/en/Pages/news/Institute/2020/BRICON-project-Human-Brain-Project-NeuroSpin.aspx Theofanis Panagiotaropoulos (NeuroSpin) obtains funding from the Human Brain Project for BRICON (Brain Inspired Consciousness), a project of HBP's neuroscience activities. Brain ; Cognition News ; Article Thu, 29 Oct 2020 11:00:00 GMT https://www.cea.fr/drf/joliot/en/Pages/news/Science/2020/Analysis-multitask-functional-MRI-data-IBC.aspx In this study, NeuroSpin researchers leveraged the Individual Brain Charting (IBC) dataset, acquired by high-resolution functional MRI during the performance of behavioural tasks, to investigate the feasibility of individual mapping of the cognitive components underlying the tasks. They thus individualized six regions of interest in the language network and established their cognitive profile. MRI ; Cognition Scientific result Thu, 08 Oct 2020 10:00:00 GMT https://www.cea.fr/drf/joliot/en/Pages/news/Science/2020/Functional-neuroanatomy-number-processing.aspx NeuroSpin researchers used ultra-high field (7 Tesla) functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) to better localize the processing and manipulation of numbers in the human brain. The results, which enrich our understanding of the functional organization of the intra-parietal sulcus, the cerebral center of digitization, are published in NeuroImage. Brain ; MRI ; Cognition ; Mathematics Scientific result Wed, 23 Sep 2020 10:00:00 GMT https://www.cea.fr/drf/joliot/en/Pages/news/Science/2019/Activity-silent-non-conscious-working-memory-at-work.aspx A NeuroSpin team showed that the mere short-term storage of information may proceed without consciousness or persistent neural activity, but that manipulating information in working memory requires both. This study, thereby reconciling a hotly debated topic in the field of neuroscience, was published in PNAS. Cognition Researchers Saclay Scientific result working memory;consciousness;MEG; Fri, 12 Jul 2019 10:00:00 GMT https://www.cea.fr/drf/joliot/en/Pages/news/Science/2018/autism-novel-brain-imaging-study-challenges-dominant-explanation.aspx As part of the InFoR-Autism scientific program involving NeuroSpin, a new neuroimaging study has revealed a correlation between decreased local anatomical connectivity and social cognitive deficits in people with autism spectrum disorders (ASD). Published in the renowned journal Brain, the results challenge the dominant theoretical model explaining ASD and could pave the way for the exploration of new therapeutic approaches. Cognition ; MRI ; Diseases Neurospin Scientific result IRM de diffusion;autisme; Tue, 13 Nov 2018 11:00:00 GMT https://www.cea.fr/drf/joliot/en/Pages/news/Science/2018/brain-learns-to-read.aspx Researchers from NeuroSpin (UNICOG) highlighted how the specific region of word recognition develops during the process of learning to read among children during first grade. This work, which helped to locate a "mailbox" in the left hemisphere, was published in the journal PLOS Biology and was the subject of a press release on March 13, 2018. Brain ; Learning Scientific result Tue, 13 Mar 2018 11:00:00 GMT https://www.cea.fr/drf/joliot/en/Pages/news/Science/2017/If-you-want-to-be-recognized-by-your-young-baby.aspx ​A NeuroSpin Research Team (UNICOG) has shown, as a result of cerebral electrical activity, that the baby orientates himself to people's faces around him since his birth. He learns quickly to recognize them, but he does so with his right hemisphere in the first months of life. These works are published in the journal Nature Human Behavior. Brain ; MRI ; Cognition Scientific result Tue, 12 Dec 2017 11:00:00 GMT