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VIDEO B3: BITS, BOTS & BEHAVIOR MIT-UDD has been launched to watch online

Wednesday, 20 April, 2016 | Por
Watch the B3 podcast to review the event's highlights: The Research Camp B3 "Bits, Bots & Behavior" realized by the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) Macro Connections Group and ...


CICS is awarded with funds to develop the second phase of a FONDEF Project

Friday, 11 March, 2016 | Por
After receiving excellent evaluation on the first phase of the project titled “Digital games platform to measure willingness to cooperate in school children”, and a successful application ...


A grant in Innovation in Technology for the Prevention of Accidents and Diseases in the Workplace has been awarded to the Center for Research on Social Complexity (CICS)

Friday, 31 July, 2015 | Por
The Superintendence of Social Security (SUSESO is Spanish), and the Association of Chilean Safety (ACHS in Spanish), have awarded a grant to CICS’ project titled: “Phone application ...


CICS’s co-director spoke at UDD’s seminar on Entrepreneurial responsibility, cooperation and commitment

Thursday, 25 June, 2015 | Por
The Universidad del Desarrollo’s Masters in Business Administration (MBA) Program (School of Business and Economics), organized “The pillars of the modern enterprise: responsibility, cooperation and commitment” seminar, ...


Project Anillo was excelently assessed by CONICYT’s international reviewers

Monday, 11 May, 2015 | Por
Carlos Rodíguez Sickert, Academic director of the UDD Doctoral Progrogram in Social Complexity, highlighted the observed interest from both Chilean and International students, to join the doctoral ...


CICS publishes a note about social neuroscience in the Spanish Magazine “Ciencia Cognitiva”

Saturday, 9 May, 2015 | Por
CICS researcher Pablo Billeke recently publish a note in the Spanish scientific diffusion magazine "Ciencia Cognitiva" on social neurosciences, in regard to the brain's bases involved in social negotiations. The ...


Paradoxical Expectation: Oscillatory Brain Activity Reveals Social Interaction Impairment in Schizophrenia

Monday, 20 April, 2015 | Por
P. Billeke, A. Armijo, D. Castillo, T. López, F. Zamorano, D. Cosmelli y F. Aboitiz. Biological Psychiatry. DOI: 10.1016/j.biopsych.2015.02.012. ABSTRACT Background People with schizophrenia show social impairments that are related to ...


Applications are being accepted for UDD’s Doctoral Program in Social Complexity

Tuesday, 24 March, 2015 | Por
Universidad del Desarrollo’s Doctoral Program in Social Complexity Sciences is currently accepting applications for its second generation. This program was developed by the Research Center in Social Complexity (CICS in spanish), the Faculty of ...


CICS explores neuronal mechanisms of social interactions and publishes findings which can be used in rehabilitation therapy for patients with schizophrenia

Wednesday, 4 March, 2015 | Por
Dr. Pablo Billeke and Dr. Francisco Zamorano from the Research Center in Social Complexity (CICS) of Universidad del Desarrollo (Sanitago, Chile), conducted the study along with researchers from ...


Carlos Rodriguez-Sickert will be speaking at the International Conference on Experimental Economics in Antigua, Guatemala

Thursday, 26 February, 2015 | Por
Carlos Rodríguez-Sickert is the co-director of CICS, and he will be speaking at the third annual Conference on Experimental Economics, which is organized by the Vernon Smith ...


Intra-individual response variability assessed by ex-Gaussian analysis may be a new endophenotype for attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder

Wednesday, 14 January, 2015 | Por
M. Henríquez, P. Billeke, H. Henríquez, F. Zamorano, F. Rothhammer and F. Aboitiz. PLoS One. DOI: 10.3389/fpsyt.2014.00197. ABSTRACT  Intra-individual variability of response times (RTisv) is considered as potential endophe-notype for ...


The CICS’s Co-Director will participate in an International Congress on “Experimental Approaches to Social Interactions”

Tuesday, 13 January, 2015 | Por
Carlos Rodríguez-Sickert is the co-director at CICS and he will be speaking at the fore-mentioned International Congress, which is being organized by Universidad de Chile’s RIA Group ...


Renowned International Researchers spoke at CICS end of year event

Wednesday, 24 December, 2014 | Por
The Research Center in Social Complexity (CICS), at Universidad del Desarrollo’s Faculty of Government, organized a Season Finale event which featured lectures from TED fellows Isabel Behncke and ...


MIT’s Little Devices Lab founder visited CICS

Tuesday, 16 December, 2014 | Por
José Gómez Márquez, founder and director of the Little Devices Lab at The Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), completed a workshop at CICS, exclusively for students of ...


CICS researcher is awarded FONDECYT Initiation 2014 grant

Wednesday, 3 December, 2014 | Por
Pablo Billeke, MD, PhD, is a researcher at the Research Center for Social Complexity -CICS- form the faculty of Government of Universidad del Desarrollo, and was awarded a FONDECYT Initiation ...


Successful completion of the first Chilean – Latin American meeting on Evolutionary Psychology

Tuesday, 2 December, 2014 | Por
The event was organized by the  Science and Evolution Foundation, the Faculty of Government and its’ Research Center for Social Complexity (CICS), and Universidad de Santiago. Over ...


Functional Cortical Network in Alpha Band Correlates with Social Bargaining

Wednesday, 8 October, 2014 | Por
P. Billeke,  F. Zamorano, M. Chavez, D. Cosmelli and F. Aboitiz. PLoS One. DOI: 10.1371. ABSTRACT Solving demanding tasks requires fast and flexible coordination among different brain areas. Everyday examples ...


José Luis Ulloa presented his work on the cerebral processes involved in the perception of visual contact and the expression of emotions

Friday, 5 September, 2014 | Por
This past Tuesday, José Luis Ulloa -phD in Neuroscience from the Pierre et Marie Currie University, Paris VI, France and current post-doctoral fellow at the Brain and ...


“Evolutionary Psychology and the Design of Human Reasoning”. Leda Cosmides’s CICS Lecture

Sunday, 10 August, 2014 | Por
CONFIRM YOUR ASSISTANCE HERE Leda Cosmides is currently Professor of Psychology at the Department of Psychological & Brain Sciences at the University of California (UCBS), also founder and co ...


UDD’s Doctoral Program in Social Complexity Sciences has now begun

Sunday, 10 August, 2014 | Por
From over 120 applicants, five students were selected to begin Universidad del Desarrollo’s Doctorate in Social Complexity Sciences, which started on August and will have a duration of four ...


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