Researchers from the Institute for Cognitive Neuroscience Present Their Research at a Conference in Bordeaux
Researchers from the HSE Institute for Cognitive Neuroscience took part in the annual Organization for Human Brain Mapping (OHBM) conference, which was held on June 14–18, 2026 in Bordeaux, France. The team presented a series of studies on the perception of misleading narratives, manipulative messages, and the evaluation of information source credibility.
OHBM is one of the largest annual events in the field of brain mapping and neuroimaging, bringing together researchers from around the world each year. This year, approximately five thousand participants gathered in Bordeaux, with the program covering a wide range of topics — from clinical medicine and neuroimaging methodology to neuroeconomics and social neuroscience.
The Institute of Cognitive Neurosciences (ICN) at HSE University was represented by a team of researchers: Anna Shestakova, Director of the ICN; Victoria Moiseeva, Leading Research Fellow at the Center for Cognition and Decision Making; Eliana Monakhova, Junior Research Fellow at the Center for Cognition and Decision Making; and research interns from the International Laboratory of Social Neurobiology, Yulia Gorodnicheva and Alexandra Morozova.
The researchers presented work on the neurophysiological mechanisms of perceiving misleading narratives, conducted using magnetoencephalography (MEG), as well as an eye-tracking study on the perception of manipulative messages. Another poster focused on the evaluation of the credibility of medical information sources — specifically, how audiences perceive the competence and reliability of doctors — using electroencephalography (EEG). The team also presented two poster presentations on the neurobiology of decision-making and the formation of food taste preferences.
“OHBM is a unique opportunity to present our research on disinformation perception to the international community and receive feedback from leading neuroimaging specialists. It is especially valuable that the topic of resilience to manipulation and disinformation is generating strong interest among colleagues from a wide range of fields — from medical professionals to researchers in social neuroscience,” noted Eliana Monakhova.
The Organization for Human Brain Mapping (OHBM) is an international scientific organization that unites brain researchers working with neuroimaging methods such as fMRI, MEG, EEG, PET, and others. Its annual conference serves as the main platform for exchanging results and methodological developments in mapping the functions of the human brain.
