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A team of scientists at HSE University, in collaboration with the Institute of Higher Nervous Activity and Neurophysiology of the Russian Academy of Sciences, studied how people respond to deception when under stress and cognitive load. The study revealed that smoking habits interfere with performance on cognitive tasks involving memory and attention and impairs a person’s ability to detect deception. The study findings have been published in Frontiers in Neuroscience.

Can human life expectancy be more than 100 years? How do heat and cold waves affect mortality? Do the elderly experience isolation from society? Does alcohol-related mortality differ by region of Russia? These and other issues were discussed on November 8 at the international conference "Current issues of Russian Demography" organized by International Laboratory for Population and Health.

Leading SIR IL researcher Victoria Konstantinovna Antonova and SIR IL research intern Arseniy Buchatsky spoke at the 35th anniversary of Samara University's sociological faculty on Friday, November 15, 2024, at the All-Russian scientific and practical conference with international participation, "Sociology and social work: modern educational and research practices."

Ivan Kotlov, a researcher at the laboratory, presented the report "Modeling the suitability of the habitats of the Central Asian leopard (Panthera pardus ciscaucasica) in the Chechen Republic."

An interview with Louis Vervoort devoted to the discussion of his presentation at the seminar "Formal Philosophy" has been published

Two talks were presented at the Maltsev Readings Conference (Novosibirsk, November 11-15, 2024):  “Undecidable fragments of predicate extensions of Gödel–Dummett logic” (Mikhail Rybakov and Darya Serova) and "The computational complexity of logic HS with a single variable" (Mikhail Rybakov and Anastasia Onoprienko).  The presentations have been prepared as part of the "International Academic Cooperation" project.

Dr. Mbandlwa Zamokule, ICSID Visiting Researcher, Senior Lecturer in the  Department of Public Administration and Economics, Durban University of Technology, presented his report on "Global Economies in the Global South and Russia's Economy."

On November 4-6, as part of Inventing the Future International Symposium hosted by the National Centre RUSSIA, the HSE Centre for Language and Brain facilitated a discussion titled 'Evolution of the Brain: How Does the World Change Us?' Researchers from the country's leading universities, along with health professionals and neuroscience popularisers, discussed specific aspects of human brain function.

On November 1, an online research seminar organized by the international laboratory IDLab took place, during which research assistant Nikita Matkin presented a study on the popularity and content of videos on the topic of "happiness" among Russian psychologists. The seminar gathered students and scholars not only from Perm but also from Moscow, attracting the interest of a wide audience.

On November 14, 2024, the National Research University Higher School of Economics (HSE University) hosted the international scientific conference “Development of Russian-Italian Cooperation in Biomedicine”