26/08/2026
In Nizhny Novgorod, the XI International Conference on Cognitive Science is drawing to a close.
The event brought together more than 500 participants from leading research centers worldwide, including Lomonosov Moscow State University, Saint Petersburg State University, HSE University, the University of Bologna, the University of Alabama, and other renowned institutions.
The scientific program featured prominent scholars such as Academician of the Russian Academy of Sciences Konstantin Vladimirovich Anokhin, Director of the Institute for Advanced Brain Studies at MSU; Professor Tatyana Vladimirovna Chernigovskaya, a recognized expert in psycholinguistics and neuroscience and Director of the Institute of Cognitive Studies at SPbU; and Professor Yuri Iosifovich Alexandrov, one of the founders of the cognitive science movement in Russia.
This year, the conference was organized by NEIMARK University in Nizhny Novgorod and the Interdisciplinary Association for Cognitive Studies (IAKI).
The conference aligns with the goals of the state initiative Decade of Science and Technology for 2022-2031.
Today, on the closing day, the winners of the Academician Natalia Bekhtereva Prize were announced. The award was established by the foundation of the same name with the support of Management Company Stupino QUADRAT for research in neurophysiology, psychophysiology, and neurology, the fields she actively developed during her lifetime. The winner is selected by members of the Foundation Presidium from papers presented at major scientific conferences in neuroscience and physiology.
The First Prize was awarded to Doctor of Biological Sciences Maxim Vladimirovich Kireev, Head of the Neuroimaging Laboratory at the Human Brain Institute of the Russian Academy of Sciences (Saint Petersburg), for his paper “Brain Mechanisms Supporting Social Interactions.”
The Second Prize went to Tatyana Shvets (Nizhny Novgorod State University) for her work “Consistency of Subjective, Cognitive, and Chronological Age Across Different Periods of Ontogenesis.”
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