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Research and Study Center for Cognive Programs and Technologies is a structural subdivision of Russian State University for the Humanies. The core target of the Centre is to make the research and educaon process at Russian State University for the Humanies more efficient and to facilitate col- laboraon between scholars in research and educaonal programs development within the field of cognive sciences. Research and Study Centre for Cognive Programs and Technologies was founded in the Russian State University for the Humanies on February 2, 2010 by the deci- sion of the Council for cognive programs and technologies, headed by Dr. of his- torical sciences, Prof., Corresponding member of Russian Academy of Sciences, rector of the university Efim Pivovar. The Centre acts under the auspices of Aca- demic Educaonal Associaon for the Humanies (co-chair, academician of RAS (Russian Academy of Science) Alexander Chubarjan). The director of the Cognive Centre is Dr. of Philology, Prof., vice-rector for inter- naonal innovave projects at RSUH Vera Zabotkina. Research has been carried out within the following direcons of the cognive sci- ence: Cognive psychology (psychology of problem solving, psychological mecha- nisms of professional thinking, emoonal intelligence, psychology of concep- tual thinking, cognive mechanisms of spontaneous oral speech); Intellectual data analysis (imitaon and formalizaon of cognive processes, development of intellectual JSM-type systems in pharmacology, criminology, robocs, sociology, evidence-based medicine, automac syntax analysis); Cognive linguiscs (cognive-discursive paradigm, cognive bases of oral discourse, cognive semancs, cognive word-formaon, cognive neology, cognive lexicography, non-verbal semiocs, psycholinguiscs). About the Center Center for cognitive programs and technologies November, 2012 Issue 1 Contents: About the Center 1 Council for cognive programs and tech- nologies 2 Arficial Intelligence 3 Projects on Arficial Intelligence 4 Cognive Linguiscs 5 Projects on Cognive Linguiscs 6 Cognive Psychology 7 Projects on Cognive Psychology 8 Interdisciplinary pro- jects at the Center 9 Russian State University for the Humanities (RSUH) Research and Study Center for Cognitive Programs and Technologies’ semi- annual newsletter

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Newsletter of the Centre for Cognitive Programs and Technologies (RSUH), Issue 1, 2012.

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Research and Study Center for Cognitive Programs and Technologies is a structural

subdivision of Russian State University for the Humanities. The core target of the

Centre is to make the research and education process

at Russian State University for the Humanities more efficient and to facilitate col-

laboration between scholars in research and educational programs development

within the field of cognitive sciences.

Research and Study Centre for Cognitive Programs and Technologies was founded

in the Russian State University for the Humanities on February 2, 2010 by the deci-

sion of the Council for cognitive programs and technologies, headed by Dr. of his-

torical sciences, Prof., Corresponding member of Russian Academy of Sciences,

rector of the university Efim Pivovar. The Centre acts under the auspices of Aca-

demic Educational Association for the Humanities (co-chair, academician of RAS

(Russian Academy of Science) Alexander Chubarjan).

The director of the Cognitive Centre is Dr. of Philology, Prof., vice-rector for inter-

national innovative projects at RSUH Vera Zabotkina.

Research has been carried out within the following directions of the cognitive sci-

ence:

Cognitive psychology (psychology of problem solving, psychological mecha-

nisms of professional thinking, emotional intelligence, psychology of concep-

tual thinking, cognitive mechanisms of spontaneous oral speech);

Intellectual data analysis (imitation and formalization of cognitive processes,

development of intellectual JSM-type systems in pharmacology, criminology,

robotics, sociology, evidence-based medicine, automatic syntax analysis);

Cognitive linguistics (cognitive-discursive paradigm, cognitive bases of oral

discourse, cognitive semantics, cognitive word-formation, cognitive neology,

cognitive lexicography, non-verbal semiotics, psycholinguistics).

About the Center

Center for cognitive programs and technologies

November, 2012

Issue 1

Contents:

About the Center 1

Council for cognitive programs and tech-nologies

2

Artificial Intelligence 3

Projects on Artificial Intelligence

4

Cognitive Linguistics 5

Projects on Cognitive Linguistics

6

Cognitive Psychology 7

Projects on Cognitive Psychology

8

Interdisciplinary pro-jects at the Center

9

Russian State University for the Humanities (RSUH)

Research and Study Center for Cognitive Programs and Technologies’ semi-

annual newsletter

Based on the Center the Council for cognitive pro-

grams and technologies is composed of the RSUH’s

leading scholars working in the field of cognitive re-

search. The new composition of the Council was ap-

proved by the Rector’s order.

Chair of the Council for cognitive programs and

technologies:

Efim Pivovar - Prof., Dr., Corr. member of

RAS, Rector of RSUH

Members of the Council:

Dmitry Bak - Prof., vice-rector for

research, RSUH

Vera Zabotkina - Prof., Dr., vice-rector for

international innovative projects, director

of the Research-education center for cog-

nitive programs and technologies, RSUH

Oleg Anshakov - Prof., Dr., Department of

mathematics, logics and intelligent sys-

tems, Institute of Linguistics, RSUH

Tamás Gergely - Prof., Dr., Applied Logic

Laboratory (Hungary, Budapest)

Valery Gubin - Prof., Dr., dean of the In-

stitute of Philosophy, RSUH

Maxim Krongauz - Prof., Dr., director of

the Institute of Linguistics, head of the

Department of Russian Language, RSUH

Delir Lakhuti - Prof., Dr., head of Educa-

tion-research centre for software and lin-

guistic support of intelligent systems,

RSUH

Vera Podlesskaya - Prof., Dr., head of Edu-

cation-research center of Linguistic Typol-

ogy, Institute of Linguistics, RSUH

Elena Pozdnyakova - Prof., Dr., professor

at the Research-education center for cog-

nitive programs and technologies, RSUH

Vladimir Spiridonov - Prof., Dr., Depart-

ment of General Patterns of Psychological

Development, Faculty of Psychology,

Vygotsky Institute of Psychology, RSUH

Vladimir Filatov - Prof., Dr., head of the

Faculty of Current Issues in Philosophy,

institute of Philosophy, RSUH

Victor Finn - Prof., Dr., head of the De-

partment of Intelligent Systems in the

Humanities and Social Sciences, RSUH

Council for cognitive programs and technologies at RSUH

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Artificial Intelligence (AI) is a scientific field that aims to model the mecha-

nisms of human information processing, i.e. those aspects of human activity

that are traditionally considered to be intellectual.

Cognitive research in the field of Artificial Intelligence is focused on the prob-

lems of imitation and formalization of

cognitive procedures that implement

knowledge acquisition.

A new method of data mining and automatic hypotheses

generation in computer systems for knowledge discovery in fact databases

was created at RSUH in cooperation with VINITI (the National Institute of

Scientific and Technical Information of the Russian Academy of Sciences).

The creator of this method is pro-

fessor of the Center for cognitive programs and technolo-

gies, prof. at RSUH and VINITI, Dr. Victor Finn. The method was named JSM

after the famous English mathematician, logician, economist and philoso-

pher John Stuart Mill. Based on his ideas about induction and Charles S.

Pierce’s ideas on abduction JSM-method implements the synthesis of cog-

nitive procedures: induction, analogy and abduction. It is a heuristics

which, when used in artificial intelligence systems (JSM-type systems) al-

lows to fulfill the data analysis and automatic hypotheses generation tasks

in life sciences and social sciences.

At the moment there are various JSM-type intelligent systems devel-

oped for a wide range of areas such as pharmacology, evidence-based

medicine, sociology, forensic

studies, history (attribution of

historical sources) and robotics.

Implementing cognitive reasoning in the field of

sociology such systems use formalized methods of qualitative analyses

of sociological data. Together with a classical sociological approach JSM

-method meets the needs of a new branch of sociology – cognitive soci-

ology that investigates the ways in which socio-cultural factors shape

the process of human thought.

JSM-type intelligent systems work effectively in medical diagnosis and

evidence-based medicine. At the moment pilot JSM-type systems for the

analyses of clinical data of melanoma patients are being developed. The

systems aim to predict patients’ life expectancy.

JSM-method is also successfully used in intelligent robotics, as well as in

pharmacology to predict the characteristics of chemical compounds. To-

gether with the specialists form the Institute of Linguistics researchers at

RSUH are developing methods of automatic syn-

tactic analyses using the JSM-method.

Artificial Intelligence

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Intelligent robots

P. 3

www.cognitive.rggu.ru

Prof. Victor Finn

Scheme of JSM-method

Victor Finn. Intelligent robots demonstration

Presentation of Victor Finn’s book on a conference devoted to J.S. Mill’s legacy

Since 2010 RSUH has been the part of the “ShanghAI Lectures” pro-ject which is an interactive series of lectures on artificial and natural intelligence held via vide-oconference at the University of Zurich in Switzerland (Artificial Intelligence Laboratory). The main lecturer is the head of the AI Laboratory Prof. Rolf Pfeifer. There are also guest lecturers from universities all around the world. In 2012 Prof. Vera Zabotkina (director of the Center for cognitive programs and technologies at RSUH) gave a talk within the framework of the project.

Lectures are held annually in September-December. Students form different uni-versities are expected to actively participate in discussions during the class and work together on team exercises using a robot simulator Webots.

The coordinator of the project at RSUH is Prof. Vera Zabotkina. The first series of these videoconference lectures were held at the Shanghai Jiao

Tong University in China, from which the project got its name. Two capital letters in the name stand for the “Artificial Intelligence”. Universities of Japan, Spain, Australia, China, Hun-gary, Great Britain, Germany, Algeria, UAE, South Korea and Poland participated in the project in 2012. RSUH is the first and only Russian university that takes part in the project. “ShanghAI Lectures” is a unique international innovative project which enables knowledge transfer through the state-of-the-art videoconferencing technologies.

shanghailectures.org

Russian-British conference devoted to the legacy of the English mathematician and philosopher John Stuart Mill took place on 15th-17th June 2011 at RSUH. The conference was dedicated to the scholar’s 205th anniversary. It was focused on J.S. Mill’s ideas and their impact on the re-search in the areas of reasoning theory, logic and the methodology of social sciences and prob-lems of artificial intelligence. The conference addressed the following issues: Modern formalizations of J. S. Mill's inductive methods through the means of many-valued logics; The use of formalized versions of J. S. Mill's inductive methods in artificial intelligence systems (JSM-type intelligent

systems); J. S. Mill's ideas about the synthesis of cognitive procedures: induc-

tion, deduction and analogy (along with the interaction between induction and abduction), as well as their role in scientific theory formation;

J. S. Mill, C. S. Peirce and K. R. Popper on the logic of scientific discovery; The logic and methodology of social sciences, discovery of empirical laws and tendencies in the natural sciences,

sociology, psychology and history; J. S. Mill's ideas on the natural language analysis; New areas of research based on the J. S. Mill's ideas (evidence based medicine, cognitive sociology, cognitive

forensic science, cognitive history, intelligent robots). Researchers of J. S. Mill's works and specialists in cognitive science, logic and artificial intelligence participated in the conference. The key Russian experts in the field of logic and artificial intelligence presented the results of their research and demonstrated the JSM-type intelligent systems. Prof. David Miller (University of Warwick, UK) who was the last Karl Popper’s secretary and Prof. Tamás Gergely (Applied Logic Laboratory, Budapest) were the special guests of the meeting.

Russian-British conference "J. S. Mill's ideas on induction and logic of the humanities in

cognitive research and artificial intelligence systems "

Artificial Intelligence

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English mathematician and philosopher J.S. Mill

ShanghAI Lectures 2010-2012

The first lecture being presented to the audience in 2010

Prof. Rolf Pfeifer delivering a lecture

Prof. David Mill

Cognitive linguistics, as well as cognitive psychology and artificial intelligence model-

ing, is a core science in a cognitive cycle. Although cognitive linguistics

in Russia appeared in the end of the 20th century, it is possible to consider the onoma-

siological direction in Russian linguistics (E. S. Kubryakova)

its older version. The importance of linguistics in cognitive

sciences is stipulated mainly by the significant role of lan-

guage in our society and by the fact that the language is

closely connected with human consciousness.

The scientists in the Centre for Cognitive Programs and

Technologies work in the field of "cognitive linguis-

tics" (prof. V. I. Zabotkina and prof. E. M. Pozdnyakova).

Such eminent RSUH scholars in linguistics as M. A. Krongauz and

V. I. Podlesskaya participate in the Centre’s projects implementation.

M. A. Krongauz is a member of the Centre for Cognitive Programs and Technologies’

Council, participant of RFBR grant "Cognitive analysis of word semantics: computer-

corpus approach" (the subject is being studied in the Centre for Cognitive Programs

and Technologies). Within this project he implements cognitive principles in lexico-

graphic research. M. A. Krongauz developed a competitive description based on the

notion of a scenario. Moreover, he uses corpus methods of research in his study.

V. I. Podlesskaya is a member of the Centre for Cognitive Programs and Technolo-

gies’ Council, expert in the field of structural and applied linguistics, linguistic typol-

ogy, discourse analysis and Japanese grammar. Her scientific interests are in the

field of modern discourse analysis and development

of the transcription principles in Russian language cor-

pora.

The research areas in cognitive linguistics direction are the fol-

lowing:

Cognitive basis of oral discourse, participation in the Russian language corpus

development (creation of the verbal speech subsection) (V. I. Podlesskaya);

Cognitive semantics, cognitive analysis of subject names (E. M. Pozdnyakova);

Cognitive neology, conceptual bases of semantic innovations, cognitive model-

ing in lexicon and phraseology (V. I. Zabotkina);

Cognitive lexicography, cognitive word-formation, development of cognitive

dictionaries (M. A. Krongauz);

Non-verbal semiotics (A. A. Kotov);

Linguistic creativity (within social cognition research) (E. M. Pozdnyakova, V. I. Zabotkina).

Cognitive Linguistics

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Prof. V. O. Zabotkina

Prof. E. M. Pozdnyakova

Prof. M. A. Krongauz

Prof. V. I. Podlesskaya

Russian-German seminar “Präsens” took place on 29th – 30th March 2011 at RSUH. It was organized by the Center for cognitive programs and technolo-gies in cooperation with the Human Science Center at Ludwig-Maximilian University Munich (LMU, Humanwissenschaftlichen Zentrum der Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München). The seminar was focused on the fundamental issues of the “present” category which were discussed from the perspective of cognitive philosophy, cognitive psychology, cognitive linguis-tics, epistemology and neurosciences. The leading German scholars working on the problem of

the category of “present” from the Human Science Center at LMU participated in the seminar. Among them: Member of Leopoldina (the National Scientific Academy of Germany), member of the Board of Di-rectors of Human Science Center at LMU Prof. Dr. Ernst Pöppel, director of Human Science Center Prof. Dr. Eva Ruhnau, chair of the Board of Human Science Center Prof. Dr. Oliver Jahraus, director of Additional Education Center at LMU Prof. Dr. med. Dr. phil. Lorenz Welker.

A cognitive linguist from France, a professor at the Paris West University Nanterre La Défense (Université Paris Ouest Nanterre - La Défense) and a member of MoDyCo Laboratory (Modelling, Dynamics, Corpus) Prof. Dr. Didier Bottineau also participated in the seminar. The Russian side was represented at the semi-nar by outstanding scientists, experts in the field of cognitive sciences – academician of RAS (Russian Academy of Sciences), director of the Institute of Philosophy of RAS Prof. Dr. Ab-

dusalam Guseinov; academician of RAS, co-chairman of Academic Educational Association for Humanities Prof. Dr. Alexander Chubarian; director of German Research Society (DFG) Buro in RF Dr. Jörn Achterberg; deputy director of the Institute of Linguistics RAS Prof. Dr. Valery Demiankov; vice-rector of RSUH, director of Research-educational centre for cognitive programs and technologies Vera Zabotkina; member of the Scientific Council of Kurchatov NBIC-center Prof. Dr. Tatiana Chernigovskaya; dean of Philosophy Faculty at RSUH Prof. Dr. Valery Gubin; professor at the Institute of Philosophy RAS Prof. Dr. David Dubrovsky; professor at RSUH Prof. Dr. Vladimir Spiridonov, professor at the Center for cognitive programs and technologies Prof. Dr. Elena Pozdnyakova and other prominent scientists.

On the 24th of October, 2011, the Russian State University for the Humanities organized on the basis of the Research and Study Center for Cognitive Pro-grams and Technologies a round table on Methods of word semantics' cogni-tive analysis. The seminar was organized within the project “Cognitive analysis of word se-mantics: computer-corpus approach” supported by Russian Foundation for Basic Research (RFBR) as one of research initiatives of 2011. The project manager is V. I. Zabotkina, director of the Centre for Cognitive Programs and Technologies. The round table was remote; all proceedings sent by the participants (their papers and their opinions on the topic of the discussion) were available on the Centre’s website during 2 weeks. The round table was followed up by the electronic book with the proceedings

of the seminar. It is available in Russian and foreign libraries .

Round table "Methods of word semantics' cognitive analysis"

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Russian-German seminar “Präsens”

Prof. Ernst Pöppel

Prof. Oliver Jahraus, Prof. Lorenz Welker

Prof. Eva Ruhnay

Proceedings of the seminar

The proceedings of the seminar (electronic book)

Cognitive psychology is a very broad area of research and applied designs which since its inception in the

1950-s has evolved from a limited field of study of human cognition into one of the leading branches of sci-

ence significantly replacing multiple research areas and schools of psychology. Having absorbed a vast variety

of research problems cognitive psychology introduced precise experimental

methodology and verifiable theoretical and quite often computer models into

them thus becoming one of the most dynamically developing areas of science.

In the first decades of its triumphant progress that followed the “cognitive rev-

olution” in 1956, cognitive psychology as well as cognitive science in general

was developing within the frame-

work of modeling human infor-

mation processing. These models

could either describe a single men-

tal process (for example the mecha-

nism of attention or memory) or they could be a whole “cognitive

architecture” representing certain configuration principles of infor-

mation processing system in general. But they were all one way or

another based on the metaphor of cognition as information trans-

fer and processing by a technological device. Therefore the majority of

research of the kind was limited to the processes for which a “technological” analogue could be found.

However under the pressure of criticism, both external and internal,

cognitive psychology as well as cognitive science in general made signifi-

cant direction changes. Their development is orientated to the exten-

sion into the surrounding reality by taking into account social, contextu-

al and interpersonal. variables. These are the areas in which cognitive

psychologists at RSUH are carrying out their research.

Vladimir Spiridonov - a board member of Research-education Centre for

Cognitive Programs and Technologies, expert in psychology of thought,

consciousness and professional development is engaged in research of

problem solving psychology. The subject of his research is the role of heu-

ristics in the development of a process of creative task completion and professional development.

Vladimir Spiridonov is the main executive of research project entitled “Cognitive-psychological mechanisms

of professional qualifications enhancement of a new type experts in context of modernization in Russia”, car-

ried out within a federal target program “Scientific and scientific-pedagogical personnel of innovative Russia”

in 2009-2013.

Cognitive psychology

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Prof. Vladimir Spiridonov

Psychological experiment: induction

Psychological experiments: notions

October 15th, 2010 the Ministry of Education of Science of the Russian Federation concluded a government

contract with the Russian State University for the Humanities for carrying out scientific research within the feder-

al target program “Scientific and scientific-pedagogical personnel of innovative Russia” in 2009-2013. The subject

of the research is “Cognitive-psychological mechanisms of professional qualifications enhancement of a new type

experts in context of modernization in Russia”. The research director is V. I. Zabotkina; the main executive - board

member of Research-education Centre for Cognitive Programs and Technologies V. F. Spiridonov.

The objective of the scientific research is studying the main cognitive-psychological mechanisms of professional

qualifications enhancement of a new type experts in context of modernization in Russia. The description of vari-

ous cognitive and emotional factors that contribute to the enhancement of competence and achieving high re-

sults in various professional activities is the focus of the research team

attention. One of the most significant results is expected to be the

psychological model of competence in the fields with a high level of

uncertainty. The accomplishment of the research must guarantee the

achievement of world-class scientific results, training and retention in

the academic field of scientific and scientific-pedagogic personnel,

formation of effective and viable research teams.

The research makes use of modern experimental methods and ap-

proaches (such as eye-tracking, out loud thinking, conscious and un-

conscious priming, experimentally induced emotional states, etc.) as

well as methods of statistical data representation and processing corresponding to the objectives.

Research objectives:

Psychological analysis of competence structure of representatives of professions with a high level of un-

certainty;

Recognition and analysis of cognitive and emotional factors that influence the achievement of a high lev-

el of professional results as well as studying the interaction of such factors;

Development and approbation of methods of psychological structure analysis and measurement of pro-

fessional problems and tasks comparative complexity;

Adjustment of measuring methods of emotional intelligence, accuracy of different-type object categori-

zation, use of heuristic strategies of solving poorly structured problems;

Defining recommendations for improvement of the system of preparation and optimization of academic

programs;

Introduction of the obtained results into the coursework of undergraduate and graduate/postgraduate

students at the RSUH.

Among the problems in the subject field which so far remain unsolved are the following:

What are the cognitive and emotional factors that differentiate experts from novices in professions with

high level of uncertainty? This presupposes the identification of the main directions of psychological

changes that occur in experts progressively as they develop professionally and explanation of the direc-

tions in terms of various psychological mechanisms involved. This problem is central in the research pro-

gram.

How domain-specific is professional competence, can a high level of achievement in one field be trans-

ferred to related and similar professional fields? This question is of great importance due to the fact that

programs of education and training of high qualification experts must be carried out in accordance with

the answer being negative or positive answer.

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Cognitive-psychological mechanisms of professional qualifications enhancement

of a new type experts in context of modernization in Russia

Psychological experiment: a new object

On the 21st-22nd of September, 2010, the Russian State University for the Humanities organized on the basis of

the Research and Study Center for Cognitive Programs and Technologies the first interdisciplinary Russian-French

seminar on cognitive sciences. The issues, discussed at the seminar,

included the problems of conceptualization, categorization and cogni-

tive modeling in philosophy, cognitive linguis-

tics, artificial intelligence theory and cognitive

psychology.

France was represented by the following emi-

nent scholars:

Prof. Pierre Steiner, president of French

Association of Cognitologists, Compiègne Uni-

versity;

Prof. Jean-Pierre Descles, Sorbonne University, head of LaLIC laboratory;

Prof. Didier Bottineau, Paris West University Nanterre La Défense ;

Prof. Emmanuel Sander, University of Paris VIII , head of CRAC team;

Prof. Pierre De Loor, University of Brittany, European Centre for Virtual Reality.

The participants of the seminar stressed that the main objective was to define the place of humanitarian

component in cognitive sciences as clearly as possible. The seminar

helped to solve this problem to a large extent and to learn of the

French colleagues’ experience.

In addition to participating in the

seminar, the French scholars

delivered public lectures for

RSUH students, specialists and

postgraduate students.

The seminar resulted in the co-

operation framework agree-

ment signed between RSUH, Humanitarian Association (Russian Federa-

tion) and French Association of Cognitologists.

The seminar was organized within the framework of the Year of Russia in France and France in Russia (in the

field of history, science and education) and became an important step in Russian-French cooperation in cogni-

tive sciences.

On November, 22nd RSUH published a collection "Cognitive science:

challenges and prospects. Proceedings of Russian-French seminar". The

collection became one of three issues published in two languages

(Russian and French) by the 1st of December within the framework of

the Year of Russia in France and France in Russia .

Russian-French Seminar “Cognitive Science in Russia: present and future”

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Interdisciplinary projects at the Center

Collection of the seminar proceedings

Prof. V. M. Shklovsky, Prof. V. Z. Dem’yankov, Prof. Jean-Pierre Descles

Prof. M. A. Krongauz, guests and partici-pants of the seminar

Prof. D. I. Dubrovsky, Prof. E. M. Beniaminov, Prof. D. G. Lakhuti, Prof. D. V. Ushakov

Prof. Vera Zabotkina, Prof.Pierre Steiner, Prof. Didier Bottineau

A round table on Integration Processes in Cognitive Sciences took place on the 2nd-4th of April 2012 at the initia-tive of the Centre for Cognitive Programs and Technologies within the framework of International Science Forum in the Humanities “RSUH Humanitarian Conference 2012".

The round table was focused on the problems of interdisciplinary re-search methodology in cognitive science. According to the round table’s concept, modern scientific community is in transition period from mon-odisciplinary knowledge generation model to interdisciplinary one. The new model goes beyond the conventional disciplinary map and, unlike homogeneous and hierarchical monodosciplinary model, is heterogene-ous and heteroarchical. Cognitive science which is by nature in-terdisciplinary and which traditionally

unites linguistics, psychology, philosophy and artificial intelligence, in recent years

have extended its boundaries and included neurosciences (neurosemiotics), anthro-pology, sociology and cognitive studies in management and decision-making areas.

The fact that the cognitive science faces difficult challeng-es makes such division quite relative and blurs the bound-aries between these directions of research. Due to the close inter-connection and intersection of several components in cognitive science researchers will be able to answer the main questions about consciousness functioning and the process of human interaction with the environment. The problem of sciences synthesis within the cognitive paradigm is especially relevant to the modern stage of the humanities develop-ment in Russia. Solution of problems discussed at the round table had been meant to be one of the answers to the challenge of ensuring a high explanatory and forecasting level of science in the modern social practice. Program issues of the round table:

The role of the humanities in cognitive sciences; The possibility of integration of humanitarian and scientific cognitive

sciences; Ways of convergence of epistemology and humanitarian and scientific

cognitive sciences methodology (computerization, corpus studies, imple-mentation of the experiment in cognitive sciences and data humanitarization and interpretation in scientific cognitive cycle);

Discussion of achievements and prospects of existing integration pro-jects in cognitive sciences.

Leading Russian scholars and cognitologists from the Great Britain, Germa-ny and France took part in the round table. Among them were Prof. Chris-

toph Wulf (Germany), Prof. Kenny Coventry (UK), Dr. Stephen Cowley (UK), Prof. Eva Ruhnau (Germany), Prof. Ernst Pöppel (Germany), Prof. Laura Yanda (Norway, USA), Prof. Didier Bottineau (France).

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Conference on Interdisciplinarity in Cognitive Science Research (within the

framework of the Annual International Forum in the Humanities)

Prof. Konstantin Anokhin, Prof, Sergey Serebry-anyi, Prof. Kenni Koventry, Prof. Christoph Wulf

Prof. Mikhail Kovalchuk

Prof. Eva Ruhnau

Prof. Didier Bottineau, Prof. Alexander Kravchenko, Dr. Stephen Cowley

Prof. Vera Zabotkina, Prof. Mikhail Kovalchuk, Prof. Konstantin Skryabin, Prof. Alexander

Chubaryan, Prof. Efim Pivovar

Research and Study Center for cognitive programs and technologies

Russian State University for the Humanities

Address: 6 Miusskaya Sq., Moscow,

125993, Russia

Room 203 (building 6)

Tel: +7 (499) 250-65-11

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