Zhanna Komarova
Science development: not starting from the achieved but aimed at the knowledge of the unknown
The Chairman of the National Academy of Sciences of Belarus Presidium academician V.?G. Gusakov speaks on the future opportunities of academic science development and its relation to the real economy.

Vladimir Kulchitskiy, Sergey Kilin
Neural networks and cognitive technologies: Past, present or future?
The article deals with the key issues of the central nervous system study. The thorough understanding of the neural networks functioning is a basis for the more effective therapy, cognitive technologies development and advanced robots design.

Georgiy Losik
The principles of the image information coding in brain
The article considers the signals coding principles in human brain. Within the information framework, there have been considered four levels of information memorizing with the human brain sensorimotor system involved. A hypothesis is given about the mechanism in the human sensorimotor system that sets the priority of the subject’s function and goal over the subject’s objective parameters including its geometry, weight, colour, spatial orientation.

Vadim Ushakov, Boris Velichkovskiy
Visualization of the brain large-scale networks
The authors consider the methods and approaches possible use in the neurocognitive research to define the human brain dynamic connectomes localization and work, and for mental states classification.

Aleksandr Lobanov, Natalia Radchikova
Cognitive revolution: How psychology became a science
The article considers the main periods of cognitive science development and the transformation of its subject of investigation in the interdisciplinary context. The authors analyze the achievements and perspectives of cognitive science development in foreign and Belarusian psychological science and practice.

Andrey Denisov, Pavel Bulay, Taras Pitlik, Sergey Cherenkevich
Cognitive processes and biological neural networks
The article analyzes the experimental data of the brain functions research. The authors’ comprehensive approach includes the computer simulation methods and a high-tech electronic interface with biological neurons used for to develop a system of the cell, synaptic and network processes analysis and control in the neuron ensembles and tissues.

Vladimir Lebedev
Connected with one neurochain
It is the interview of the head of the Neurophysiology and neurocomputer interfaces laboratory, Biological faculty, Moscow State University, Doctor of Biological Sciences, professor Aleksandr Kaplan about the current and future opportunities of the neurocomputer interfaces.

Egor Eroshevich
The third wind in the artificial intellect creation
The Interagency centre for artificial intellect research began its work on the ground of the United Institute of Informatics Problems (UIIP) and the Institute of Physiology of the National Academy of Sciences of Belarus. The director of the UIIP, corresponding member of the NASB Aleksandr Tuzikov speaks on the tasks and goals of the new institutional structure.

Ekaterina Gospodarik, Mikhail Kovalev
A long-range forecast of the Eurasian Economic Union economic growth
The article analyzes the current place of the EEU in the global market and shows the future opportunities of the Union economic growth. The authors use a hybrid aggregation of different scenarios to build a long-range forecast.

Aleksandr Kuznetsov
The power smart grids
The article considers the problems of the power smart grids creation and its efficiency factors in the context of the Belarusian power strategy modernization. The author shows that these grids enable a transition from certain technological improvements in the power control systems to the improved system management of the production and consumption by both the state and individual consumers.

Stanislav Nichiporovich
Support of the Belarusian publishing and printing industry sustainable development
The article considers the state of the publishing and printing business in Belarus and shows the ways to its higher efficiency.

Tatsiana Harayeva
Methodical approach to the development of high-tech product promotion strategy to foreign markets
The increasing of high-tech product export in the Republic of Belarus needs the new methods of its promotion to foreign markets were developed. The strategy choice and implementing depend on the production specific character and distribution.

Zhanna Komarova, Irina Emelianovich
Dialogue of cultures
A series of materials dated to the 70th anniversary of the Belarusian State Academy of Arts shows the main achievements of the institution during this period.