Pyatigorsk State University (PSU)
Pyatigorsk State University (PSU)

The date of foundation of Pyatigorsk State University is considered to be June 27, 1939, when the Pedagogical School officially became a higher educational institution. Since then, the university has undergone various changes and transformations - an increase in the number of years of study, several renamings - and officially became known as Pyatigorsk State University in 2016. Since 2005, the head of the university is Professor Gorbunov Alexander Pavlovich. By 2009, 10 faculties were formed at the university. Further, on their basis, institutes and higher schools were created, having one of the faculties in their composition. In addition, PSU is actively developing the system of pre-university, postgraduate and additional education. It has a branch in Novorossiysk. Currently, the university has 34 departments. Now Pyatigorsk State University has more than 5,500 students and 3,000 students from different regions of Russia and foreign countries. All the peoples of the Caucasus are also represented in PSU.

Today at PSU, leading scientists of Russia and the world will discuss topical issues of modern cognitive science: on the basis of our university, the anniversary Tenth International Conference on Cognitive Science, a field of knowledge that studies the mechanisms of information processing by both humans and artificial intelligence, opened its work.

This event is a unique opportunity to exchange experience between specialists in different areas: physiology, psychology, pedagogy, linguistics, IT technologies, etc.

The conference will be attended by more than 400 domestic and foreign scientists, including employees of the Russian Academy of Sciences and the Russian Academy of Education.

A special guest is a leading researcher in the field of neuroscience, psycholinguistics and the theory of consciousness Tatiana Vladimirovna Chernihivskaya.

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