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A number of research organizations and universities, including HSE, will be able to establish their own academic degrees, under a decree signed by Russian Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev.

Ekaterina Vasilevskaya is a second year student on the full-time advanced doctoral programme, and also a visiting lecturer at HSE. Since 2016, she has participated in the 'Health Literacy and Its Impact on Weight-Related Behaviors in College Students’ research project at Florida International University, USA. In her interview for the Doctoral School of Psychology, Ekaterina spoke about being admitted to the HSE doctoral programme, and her studies.

A new study by HSE researchers has uncovered a new brain mechanism that generates cognitive dissonance – a mental discomfort experienced by a person who simultaneously holds two or more contradictory beliefs or values, or experiences difficulties in making decisions. The results of the study have been published in the paper ‘Open Access Neural Mechanisms of Cognitive Dissonance (Revised): an EEG Study’in The Journal of Neuroscience.

The Doctoral School in Psychology of the Higher School of Economics, Moscow, Russia, is pleased to inform that application process has started on April 3.

New regulations simplifying admissions to HSE’s doctoral programmes have been approved. The procedure includes two application waves that consider personal achievements, and offers more opportunities for those who speak foreign languages. Vice Rector Sergey Roshchin told us more about the changes.

Doctoral schools provide an opportunity for international doctoral students to undertake part of their study or research at HSE. The university offers two types of traineeships – research and study. The study stay involves taking courses from the HSE doctoral schools. This can be one, two or more courses aimed at developing academic skills or at obtaining greater exposure to special core subjects.

BIGSSS–departs (doctoral education in partnerships) is a full-time international PhD program co-funded by the European Union. It provides close supervision of dissertation work in a demand-tailored education and research environment at the University of Bremen and Bremen’s Jacobs University.

On November,30 junior researcher Nikita Novikov presented speech on  Post-error modulations of theta and alpha activity in the auditory condensation task, in which he described the basics of contemporary views on cognition control structure. The main topic was post-mistake adaptations.

Young researches of HSE’s Centre for Cognition & Decision Making will be invited to speak on Cognitive sciences and neurotechnologies.

10^th February Elizaveta Okorokova speaks on ‘Human-computer Interfaces: don’t you touch it!’

24^th February Mihail Pokhoday speaks on ‘Eye-tracking: 21th century method – how to use and apply it in psychoogy’

9^th March Oxana Zinchenko speaks on ‘Social punishment and encouragement: how people react on violating social standatds’

23th March Anna Shpektor speaks on ‘How to improve cognitive abilities by brain stimulation’

Lectures start at 19-30. 

An introductory meeting for the 1st-year PhD students