Аннотация:In the converging development of contemporary technologies, cognitive studies play a systemic role which consists in controlling the compatibility of resulting products and services to psychophysiological and ergonomic characteristics of human beings. The major task on this way is creation of cognitive technologies, i.e. high-tech tools, materials and procedures intended at improving of human situational awareness and efficiency of his/her activity. There are a large number of such emerging cognitive technologies, among them the following:
1. Interfaces on the basis of new nanomaterials (Nano-Info-Cogno)
2. Interfaces, sensitive to attention of users (Info-Cogno)
3. Methods of explication of consciousness and diagnostics of emotion (Bio-Info-Cogno)
4. Methods of recognition of gesture (Info-Cogno)
5. Anthropomorphic agents/ avatars (Info-Cogno)
6. Methods of cognitive genomics and cognotropic drugs (Bio-Nano-Cogno)
7. Neuromarketing (neuroeconomics) and neuroergonomics (Bio-Cogno)
8. Methods of molecular ‘repair’ of human memory (Bio-Nano-Cogno)
In this article, we consider examples from three domains of interaction between cognitive studies and research in natural sciences. First group of examples is related to interface technologies. Some of them are of interests from the perspective of improving sensory facilities of blind persons, others are important for industrial and medical applications (augmented reality, endoscopic operations with tactile feed-back, etc.). Second group of examples illustrate recent efforts aimed at enhancing measurement procedures in cognitive science. Finally, third group is related to search of sub-cellular and molecular mechanisms of cognitive processes.