Ekaterina Pechenkova
- Associate Professor: Faculty of Social Sciences / School of Psychology
- Laboratory Head: Faculty of Social Sciences / School of Psychology / Laboratory for Cognitive Research
- Ekaterina Pechenkova has been at HSE University since 2018.
Education and Degrees
Thesis Title: Types and mechanisms of temporal displacements in temporal order perception
Lomonosov Moscow State University
According to the International Standard Classification of Education (ISCED) 2011, Candidate of Sciences belongs to ISCED level 8 - "doctoral or equivalent", together with PhD, DPhil, D.Lit, D.Sc, LL.D, Doctorate or similar. Candidate of Sciences allows its holders to reach the level of the Associate Professor.
Awards and Accomplishments
- Best Teacher — 2026, 2024
Supervisor of the following Doctoral theses
- 1S. Mening Neural mechanisms of aging-related changes in working memory processes
Courses (2026/2027)
- Neuroscience Methods (Bachelor’s programme; Faculty of Social Sciences field of study Psychology; 3 year, 1 module)Rus
- Neuroscience Methods (Bachelor’s programme; Faculty of Social Sciences field of study Applied Mathematics and Information Science, Psychology, Public Administration, Sociology, Political Science; 4 year, 1 module)Rus
- Neuroscience Methods (Bachelor’s programme; Faculty of Social Sciences field of study Applied Mathematics and Information Science, Psychology, Public Administration, Sociology, Political Science; 4 year, 1 module)Rus
- Past Courses
Courses (2025/2026)
- Neuroscience Methods (Bachelor’s programme; Faculty of Social Sciences field of study Psychology; 3 year, 1 module)Rus
- Neuroscience Methods (Bachelor’s programme; Faculty of Social Sciences field of study Applied Mathematics and Information Science, Psychology, Public Administration, Sociology, Political Science; 4 year, 1 module)Rus
- Neuroscience Methods (Bachelor’s programme; Faculty of Social Sciences field of study Applied Mathematics and Information Science, Psychology, Public Administration, Sociology, Political Science; 4 year, 1 module)Rus
Courses (2024/2025)
- Neuroscience Methods (Bachelor’s programme; Faculty of Social Sciences field of study Psychology; 3 year, 1 module)Rus
Courses (2023/2024)
- Neuroscience Methods (Bachelor’s programme; Faculty of Social Sciences field of study Psychology; 3 year, 1 module)Rus
Courses (2022/2023)
- Neuroscience Methods (Bachelor’s programme; Faculty of Social Sciences field of study Psychology; 3 year, 1 module)Rus
Courses (2021/2022)
- Neuroscience Methods (Bachelor’s programme; Faculty of Social Sciences field of study Psychology; 3 year, 1 module)Rus
Editorial board membership
Grants
Russian Science Foundation grant # 23-28-01561 (Principal Investigator), project
Development of research methodology to study neural underpinnings of the object visual imagery
The project is aimed at refining theoretical ideas on object visual imagery and selecting and developing objective methods for testing object imagery, suitable for use in fMRI research. This is the novel direction in the study of visual imagery since at the moment, predominantly self-report methods are used, and only isolated attempts have been made to develop tasks with objectively controlled accuracy and difficulty.
'Over 12 Years, We Have Participated in Nearly 1,000 Awake Surgeries'
HSE University hosted the 13th Summer Neurolinguistics School, organised by the Centre for Language and Brain with support from the HSE Faculty of Humanities. The programme focused on collaboration among neurolinguists, neurosurgeons, and neurophysiologists in the operating room, standardisation of linguistic paradigms, and practical approaches to preserving patients’ language function.
The Brain in Space: Investigating the Effects of Long Spaceflights on Space Travellers
As part of an international project conducted with the participation of Roscosmos and the European Space Agency, a team of researchers used differential tractography to analyse dMRI scans ofcosmonauts’ brains and found significant changes in brain connectivity, with some of the changes persisting after seven months back on Earth. The paper is published in Frontiers in Neural Circuits.
‘All of the Most Interesting Research Today Happens at the Borders between Different Disciplines’
The Russian Ministry of Education and Science has approved a new nomenclature of specializations in which academic degrees are conferred in Russia. The new list includes 21 new fields, including cognitive science. Maria Falikman, Head of the HSE School of Psychology, discusses the history of cognitive science, its formation at HSE, and its prospects for development.
Russian Research Team Gains Deeper Insight into the Workings of the Human Brain during Group Problem Solving
A team of Russian researchers with the participation of a leading researcher at HSE University, Ekaterina Pechenkova, found that during group problem solving the components of the social brain are co-activated, but they do not increase their coupling during cooperation as would be suggested for a holistic network. The study was published in Frontiers in Human Neuroscience.
Microgravity Changes Brain Connectivity: What Happens to the Human Brain in Weightlessness
An international team of Russian and Belgian researchers has found out that space travel has a significant impact on the brain: they discovered that cosmonauts demonstrate changes in brain connectivity related to perception and movement. Some areas, such as regions in the insular and parietal cortices, work more synchronously with other brain areas after the space flight. On the other hand, connectivity of some other regions, such as the cerebellum and vestibular nuclei, decreases. The results of the study were published in Frontiers in Physiology.