Tag "research projects"

On October 4, 2022, the Head of the Laboratory, R.B. Sandlersky, took part in the annual seminar "Homeostatic Mechanisms of Biological Systems" organized by the N.K. Koltsov Institute of Developmental Biology of the Russian Academy of Sciences, the A.N. Severtsov Institute of Ecology and Evolution of the Russian Academy of Sciences and the Center for Sustainable Development and Environmental Health within the framework of the RAS Program "Biodiversity of Natural systems and biological resources of Russia".

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.

In July-August of the current year, Laboratory employees Anna Derkacheva and Robert Sandlersky took part in field studies of forest geosystems in Northwestern Mongolia as part of the Joint Russian-Mongolian Complex Biological Expedition of the Russian Academy of Sciences and the Academy of Sciences of the MPR under the IPEE RAS.

In June 2022, laboratory employee Grigory Chernov presented the report Introduction to structured learning and causal discovery.

Another stage of the joint scientific research within the large-scale institutional international project CAPES-PrINT  was held by the Director of the Centre, Professor Dr. Alexey Vagov  at the University of Pernambuco (Brazil). The research stage was dedicated to the study of multi-zone superconductivity. The promising scientific results were achieved together with the group of Professor Dr. Albino.

Researchers from the HSE Center for Language and Brain have identified previously unknown age-related changes in brain activity during the perception of auditory information in a group of children aged 7–12 years. The researchers used magnetoencephalography (MEG), an ultra-precise method of brain activity recording. The results obtained can be used to explore the impairments in language comprehension in children with autism. The study was published in the Human Brain Mapping.

Researchers of the HSE International Laboratory of Statistical and Computational Genomics together with their international colleagues have proposed a new statistical method for analysing population admixture that makes it possible to determine the time and number of migration waves more accurately. The history of Colombians and Mexicans (descendants of Native Americans, Spaniards and Africans) features two episodes of admixture that occurred about 350 and 200 years ago for Mexicans and 400 and 100 years ago for Colombians. The results were published in the Plos Genetics journal.

Russian-Israeli scientist Fyodor Tatarinov joined the laboratory.

In the first half of 2022, 2 articles were published by an employee of the laboratory Tatiana Zhuravleva. The first is co-authored with Alice Guerra under the title Do women always behave as corruption cleaners? published in the prestigious magazine Public Choice. The second is Corruption: A cross-country comparison of contagion and conformism, co-authored with Arthur Scream and Jin Di Zheng published in the highly regarded Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization.