International Conference on Cognitive Science starts in Nizhny Novgorod

The 11th International Conference on Cognitive Science is taking place in Nizhny Novgorod from 24 to 28 August 2026. Lobachevsky University representatives take an active part in this major global forum dedicated to the problems of consciousness and cognition.

Over the course of five days, participants will discuss key issues of interdisciplinary cognitive research such as cognition, intelligence, thinking, language and speech, the acquisition and implementation of skills and knowledge, the brain mechanisms of mental activity and complex behaviour forms. The conference programme includes lectures and reports by Russia's leading experts in cognitive research, including academicians Konstantin Anokhin, Tatiana Chernigovskaya, and Yuri Alexandrov.

"The fact that such a large-scale conference is being held in Nizhny Novgorod demonstrates recognition of the high level of cognitive research in our region and the leading positions of the cognitive scientific school established at Lobachevsky University,"commented Sergei Parin, President of the Interdisciplinary Association for Cognitive Research, Professor of the Department of Psychophysiology at the UNN Faculty of Social Sciences.

The conference continues a series of International conferences on Cognitive Science held in Kazan (2004), St. Petersburg (2006), Moscow (2008, 2020), Tomsk (2010), Kaliningrad (2012, 2014), Svetlogorsk (2016, 2018) and Pyatigorsk (2024). Tatiana Chernigovskaya, a world-renowned psycholinguist and populariser of science, Professor at St. Petersburg State University, notes that cognitive science allows us to determine who we are, why we think this way and where we are going, why we have such a civilization. According to her, in our challenging times, such self-determination is very important for each of us.

Traditionally, the conference is attended by a wide range of professionals representing such scientific disciplines as psychology, linguistics, neurophysiology and psychophysiology, biology, pedagogy, neuroinformatics and computer science, philosophy, anthropology, etc. More than 400 reports in these areas will be presented by participants from 17 countries.