Previous Conferences on Cognitive Science were held in Kazan' (2004), St. Petersburg (2006), Moscow (2008), Tomsk (2010), Kaliningrad (2012, 2014), Svetlogorsk (2016, 2018).
The conference is intended as a multidisciplinary forum for scientists exploring cognition and its evolution, intellect, thinking, perception, consciousness, knowledge representation and acquisition, language as a means of cognition and communication, brain mechanisms of cognition, emotion and higher forms of behavior. Psychologists, linguists, neuroscientists, computer scientists, philosophers, anthropologists, specialists in education, artificial intelligence, neuroinformatics and cognitive ergonomics, as well as other researchers interested in interdisciplinary research on cognition, participate in the conference.