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Staff Members from CICS presented their work at the Human Behavior and Evolution Society Annual Conference

Monday, 4 August, 2014 | Por
Two faculty members from the Research Center for Social Complexity (CICS in Spanish), from Universidad del Desarrollo’s Faculty of Government presented their work at this years’ Human ...


Newsletter “Parametro” launches its sixth edition

Tuesday, 29 July, 2014 | Por
In the sixth edition of “Parametro” (the newsletter of  the Research Area of the School of Government of Universidad del Desarrollo) there are articles on the most important events ...


To Each According to its Degree: The Meritocracy and Topocracy of Embedded Markets

Friday, 18 July, 2014 | Por
J. Borondo, F. Borondo, C. Rodriguez-Sickert and C. A. Hidalgo. Scientific Reports. DOI: 10.1038/srep03784. ABSTRACT A system is said to be meritocratic if the compensation and power available to individuals is ...


Modularity along organism dispersal gradients challenges a prevailing view of abrupt transitions in animal landscape perception

Wednesday, 2 July, 2014 | Por
Ana Inés Borthagaray, Juan Manuel Barreneche, Sebastián Abades and Matías Arim. Ecography. DOI: 10.1111/j.1600-0587.2013.00366.x. ABSTRACT A common property of landscapes and metacommunities is the occurrence of abrupt shifts in ...


CICS will participate in the 26th annual meeting of the Human Behavior and Evolution Society, to be held in Brazil

Tuesday, 27 May, 2014 | Por
CICS members are participating in the reviewers panel selected by the Scientific Committee of the 26th annual meeting of the Human Behavior and Evolution Society (HBES), which ...


CICS researchers created a new Research Topic for the Frontiers in Phychiatry journal

Tuesday, 20 May, 2014 | Por
CICS researchers Pablo Billeke MD PhD, Carlos Rodriguez-Sickert PhD and Francisco Zamorano PhD, organized a Research Topic related to the application of interdisciplinary tools for understanding social behaviors ...


Irrelevant stimulus processing in ADHD: catecholamine dynamics and attentional networks

Monday, 19 May, 2014 | Por
Francisco Aboitiz, Tomás Osandón, Francisco Zamorano, Bárbara Palma and Ximena Carrasco. Frontiers in Phychology. 01/2014; 5:183. DOI:10.3389/fpsyg.2014.00183. ABSTRACT  A cardinal symptom of attention deficit and hyperactivity disorder(ADHD)is a general ...


Temporal Constraints of Behavioral Inhibition: Relevance of Inter-stimulus Interval in a Go-Nogo Task

Monday, 19 May, 2014 | Por
Francisco Zamorano, Pablo Billeke, José M Hurtado, Vladimir López, Ximena Carrasco, Tomás Ossandón and Francisco Aboitiz. PLoS ONE. 01/2014; 9(1): e87232. DOI:10.1371. ABSTRACT The capacity to inhibit prepotent and automatic ...


Someone has to give in: theta oscillations correlate with adaptive behavior in social bargaining

Monday, 19 May, 2014 | Por
Pablo Billeke, Francisco Zamorano, Tamara López, Carlos Rodríguez, Diego Cosmelli and Francisco Aboitiz. Social Cognitive and Affective Neuroscience. 03/2014; DOI:10.1093. ABSTRACT During social bargain, one has to both figure ...


Sums of variables at the onset of chaos

Monday, 10 February, 2014 | Por
Miguel Angel Fuentes and Alberto Robledo. The European Physical Journal B. DOI:10.1140/epjb/e2014-40882-1. ABSTRACT We explain how specific dynamical properties give rise to the limit distribution of sums of deterministic ...


Social cognition in major depressive disorder: A new paradigm?

Friday, 10 January, 2014 | Por
Pablo Billeke, Samantha Boardman and P Murali Doraiswamy. Translational Neuroscience. 12/2013; 4(4):437-447. DOI:10.2478/s13380-013-0147-9. ABSTRACT Social cognition refers to the brain mechanisms by which we process social information about other ...


Neural progenitors, patterning and ecology in neocortical origins

Friday, 10 January, 2014 | Por
Francisco Aboitiz and Francisco Zamorano. Frontiers in Neuroanatomy. 01/2013; 7:38. DOI:10.3389/fnana.2013.00038. ABSTRACT The anatomical organization of the mammalian neocortex stands out among vertebrates for its laminar and columnar arrangement, ...


Newsletter “Parametro” launches its fifth edition

Monday, 30 December, 2013 | Por
In fifth edition of “Parametro” (the newsletter of the Research area of the School of Government of Universidad del Desarrollo-UDD) there are articles on the most important events ...


Graham Spencer and David Krakauer closed the Complex Systems Summer School Chile

Thursday, 19 December, 2013 | Por
The end of the first Complex Systems Summer School Chile, organized by the Santa Fe Institute and the School of Government of Universidad del Desarrollo with support from ...


First passage time on pattern formation in a non-local Fisher population dynamics

Sunday, 15 December, 2013 | Por
Miguel A. Fuentes and Manuel O. Cáceres. Central European Journal of Physics. DOI: 10.2478/s11534-013-0268-3. ABSTRACT We use stochastic dynamics to develop the patterned attractor of a non–local extended system. ...


Unveiling Current Guanaco Distribution in Chile Based upon Niche Structure of Phylogeographic Lineages: Andean Puna to Subpolar Forests

Wednesday, 20 November, 2013 | Por
Benito A. González, Horacio Samaniego, Juan Carlos Marín and Cristián F. Estades. PLoS One. DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0078894. ABSTRACT Niche description and differentiation at broad geographic scales have been recent major ...


CICS wins FONDEF IDeA Applied Science grant

Wednesday, 2 October, 2013 | Por
Through its Research Center for Social Complexity (CICS), the School of Goverment of Universidad del Desarrollo has been granted funds by the FONDEF IDeA Ciencia Aplicada’s second ...


Dr. Leda Cosmides will deliver a Lecture and a Winter School on Evolutionary Psychology this August

Thursday, 1 August, 2013 | Por
Science and Evolution Foundation, in a joint collaborative effort with Universidad del Desarrollo’s School of Government, are continuing a formative program for Chilean academics in the evolutionary ...


Exploring External Validity of Common Pool Resource Experiments: Insights from Artisanal Benthic Fisheries in Chile

Monday, 29 July, 2013 | Por
Stefan Gelcich, Ricardo Guzmán, Carlos Rodríguez-Sickert, Juan Carlos Castilla and Juan Camilo Cardenas. Ecology and Society. 18 (3): 2. ABSTRACT We explore the external validity of a common pool ...


Euvoluntariness and just market exchange: moral dilemmas from Locke’s Venditio

Thursday, 27 June, 2013 | Por
Ricardo Andres Guzman and Michael C. Munger. Public Choice . DOI  10.1007/s11127-013-0090-x ABSTRACT It is a maxim of Public Choice that voluntary exchanges should not be interfered with by ...


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