Symposium "Urban Spaces and Human Brain" will take place on the 22nd of November
The symposium will focus on exploring the impact of urban and natural environments on people's mental and physical health. Keynote speakers include Hiroko Ochiai (Tokyo), who will discuss the benefits of forest therapy for children's health, and Dr.Sci. Prof. Krasheninnikov (MARHI), who will explore the cognitive models of Urban space.
HSE University Hosts Russia’s First Doctoral Defence in Cognitive Science
Vasily Klucharev, HSE professor and Leading Research Fellow at the Institute for Cognitive Neuroscience, successfully defended his doctoral dissertation in cognitive science. This was the first doctoral dissertation in this discipline in Russia.
The V International Forum «COGNITIVE NEUROSCIENCE – 2022» in Yekaterinburg
Colleagues from the International Social Neurobiology Laboratory and the Centre of Cognition & Decision Making of the Institute for Cognitive Neuroscience presented their research at the V International Forum «COGNITIVE NEUROSCIENCE – 2022» in Yekaterinburg.
The 2nd International Conference on Social Neuroscience in Ecologically Valid Conditions was held
The online conference was devoted to the latest global advances in social neuroscience using naturalistic stimuli. Leading Russian and foreign scientists participated in the online conference.
Russian Researchers Propose New Approach to Studying Facial Emotion Recognition
Researchers of the HSE University and the Southern Federal University (SFedU) have tested a new method for studying the perception of facial emotional expressions. They suggest that asking subjects to recognise emotional expressions from dynamic video clips rather than static photographs can improve the accuracy of findings, eg in psychiatric and neurological studies. The paper is published in Applied Sciences.
Cognitivity from Within the brain
Speaker of the seminar Konstantin V. Anokhin, Academician of the Russian Academy of Science & Director of the Institute for Advanced Brain Studies, Lomonosov Moscow State University
Social Neuroscience studies of racial in-group bias in empathy
Shihui Han, Professor
School of Psychological and Cognitive Sciences, Peking University
Power in Network structures
The speaker of the seminar Fuad T. Aleskerov, Professor at the Department of Mathematics & Director of the International Centre of Decision Choice and Analysis, HSE.
How Migration Policy Shapes the Subjective Well-Being of the Non-immigrant Population in European Countries
On February 10, Alexander Tatarko (Deputy Director and Chief Research Fellow at the Center for Sociocultural Research, HSE), gave a talk at a joint research seminar of the International Laboratory of Social Neurobiology and the Center for Socio-Cultural Research.
Two Worlds of Residents: Car Owners Look at Shared Urban Courtyards Differently from Pedestrians
Researchers from HSE University and St. Petersburg State University of Architecture and Civil Engineering (SPSUACE) used eye tracking to study how residents who own cars and those who don’t look at the shared courtyards of multistorey apartment buildings. The study was published in Urban Forestry & Urban Greening.