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.

This interdisciplinary event will focus on the neural mechanisms underlying decision-making processes in risky, impulsive and social contexts as well as consumer behaviour, offering a platform for researchers to share their latest findings and theoretical advancements. 

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.

An international team of researchers including scientists at HSE University investigated how bilingual individuals associate time with space. It turns out that in both their first and second languages, people associate the past with the left side of space and the future with the right. In fact, the higher the proficiency in a second language, the more pronounced this relationship becomes. The study findings have been published in Scientific Reports.

Suboptimal decisions are a universal human trait, according to science

For Russians, learning Belarusian is often better than Chinese

HSE University hosted an international mini-conference titled 'Search for new ways to develop Russian-Italian cooperation in the field of Biomedicine,' attended by scientists from both countries and HSE Rector Nikita Anisimov.