Institute for Cognitive Neuroscience (ICN) is a research subdivision of HSE aiming at the development of applied and theoretical studies in the field of cognitive science and neurotechnology.
Our areas of research cover such topics as perception, communication, attention, cognitive control, memory, decision making, behavioral genetics, modeling of cognitive processes and computational neuroscience, including dynamic brain connectiomics in health and pathology.
Can the Brain Resist the Group Opinion?
Scientists at HSE University have learned that disagreeing with the opinion of other people leaves a ‘trace’ in brain activity, which allows the brain to later adjust its opinion in favour of the majority-held point of view. The article was published in Scientific Reports.
Researchers Expand the Capabilities of Magnetoencephalography
Researchers from the HSE Institute for Cognitive Neuroscience have proposed a new method to process magnetoencephalography (MEG) data, which helps find cortical activation areas with higher precision. The method can be used in both basic research and clinical practice to diagnose a wide range of neurological disorders and to prepare patients for brain surgery. The paper describing the algorithm was published in the journal NeuroImage.
Losing Money Multiple Times Causes Plastic Changes in the Brain
Researchers at the HSE Institute for Cognitive Neuroscience have shown experimentally that economic activity can actively change the brain. Signals that predict regular financial losses evoke plastic changes in the cortex. Therefore, these signals are processed by the brain more meticulously, which helps to identify such situations more accurately. The article was published in Scientific Reports.
Online Symposium "ERASMUS I-Brain MiniSymposium in cognitive neuroscience – Call for abstracts "
Institute for Cognitive Neuroscience, Higher School of Economics (Moscow, Russia) and Ecole Normale Supérieure (Paris, France) announce the online I-Brain MiniSymposium in cognitive neuroscience, sponsored by I-Brain Erasmus project (http://ibrain.eu/).
CBI Seminar 29.10: Stephanie Jones "Interpreting the Mechanisms and Meaning of MEG/EEG signals with the Human Neocortical Neurosolver (HNN) software"
We are very happy to announce that the next speaker in the Centre for Bioelectric Interfaces (CBI) online seminar series is going to be our U.S colleague, Dr. Stephanie R. Jones, Associate Professor at Brown University!
"iBrain Cognitive Neuroscience Direct track miniSymposium"
Dear colleagues and students, we invite everyone interested to take part in the "iBrain Cognitive Neuroscience Direct track miniSymposium"on October 15 at 10:30
Heart and Brain
Finally, our study has been published on intricate relationship between heart
and brain.
Congratulations to our colleagues on their victory in the RSF grant competition!
International Laboratory for Social Neurobiology, Institute of Cognitive Neurosciences, Higher School of Economics, together “H.Turner National Medical Research Center for Сhildren's Orthopedics and Trauma Surgery” of the Ministry of Health of the Russian Federation won the contest of grants of the RSF for conducting interdisciplinary projects.
European Universities to Help Shape Continuous Master’s/PhD Track at HSE
In the 2020-2021 academic year, students of the HSE Master's Programme ‘Cognitive Sciences and Technologies: from Neuron to Cognition’ will be able to additionally apply for a continuous Master’s/PhD track. Studying in a single programme, they will participate in the international project iBRAIN, organized by leading European universities.
