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Researchers at the HSE Institute for Cognitive Neuroscience have shown experimentally that economic activity can actively change the brain. Signals that predict regular financial losses evoke plastic changes in the cortex. Therefore, these signals are processed by the brain more meticulously, which helps to identify such situations more accurately. The article was published in Scientific Reports.

On December 11-12, 2020, employees of the International Laboratory of Microphysiological Systems made a presentation at the conference 2020 – International Conference on Research in Life-Sciences & Healthcare (ICRLSH), London, UK

Professor John W. Berry has been included in the recent Stanford University's list of 2% of the world's top scientists. The study analyzed data from 1965 to 2019, covering about 7 million scientists in 22 main fields of science. Most of those on the list work in Medicine and Technology. According to the list, among Canadian psychologists from all fields, prof. Berry is ranked # 3 on this list and # 1 among Canadian social psychologists.

On December 9 Anna Prokhorova (PhD candidate (political sciences), European University at St. Petersburg; Scientific Advisor, International Organization for Migration, United Nations Economic Commission for Europe) took part in the "Culture matters" research seminar with the report "Political culture and migration policy in non-democratic countries of reception of migrants: how political scientists study migration policy".

On November 25 Rima-Maria Rahal (PhD, research fellow, Tilburg University, The Netherlands) took part in the "Culture matters" research seminar with the report "Cognitive and affective processes in decision making".

The webinar "Russia in the International Index of Migrant Integration Policy (MIPEX)" dedicated to the international launch of the results of the MIPEX study in Russia was organized by the Center for Sociocultural Research of the Higher School of Economics on November, 19 via the Zoom platform. 

On November 18 Bastian Jaeger (PhD, Associate Professor, Tilburg University, The Netherlands) took part in the "Culture matters" research seminar with the report "Facial discrimination: A social bias perspective on first impressions".

December 10-12, 2020

The seminar of the Linguistic Convergence Laboratory on November 10 was held in the format of a joint meeting with linguists from the Max Planck Institute for Human History (Jena). Damian Blasi made a report in which he presented his hypothesis regarding the dynamics of the number of languages since the early Holocene.

On November 11 Dimitris Kilakos (PhD, Adjunct Lecturer, University of West Attica, Greece) took part in the "Culture matters" research seminar with the report "Modern conservatisation and the "truth regime" of the pandemic".