On December 22, Saint-Petersburg State University opened its first representative office in Germany based on the Free University of Berlin.
At the grand opening, Tatiana Chernigovskaya — head of the Institute for Cognitive Studies of SPbU, outstanding scholar and science popularizer — presented her lecture “Brain and Mind” in English. And now, it is available for everyone on our YouTube channel. In the speech, she examines the neuroscience search for meaning and offers to look at the brain as a semiotic space that creates information.
To learn more about the human brain and about language as the main mean of communication and thinking, join the online course of SPbU by Tatiana Chernigovskaya “Neurolinguistics”. This course entered the Top 100 most popular online courses in the world according to the Class Central portal, became the most popular course among the Russian audience on the Coursera platform in 2020 and was awarded in the special nomination «Global Course» within the framework of the EdCrunch Award 2020 competition.
