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Attention and working memory (WM) are basic components of executive functions, and can be improved through training. One activity that has been shown to improve executive functions ...
Universidad del Desarrollo will support the implementation of 5 initiatives on COVID-19
Monday, 21 September, 2020 |Five of these projects originated at the Universidad del Desarrollo (UDD), which had been placed on the waiting list during the competition for the Rapid Allocation of ...
Political polarization in today’s Chile: analysis of the DCCS director in La Tercera
Tuesday, 18 August, 2020 |Given the current scenario our country is going through, and not only with regard to the Pandemic and quarantines in Chile, but also the vote for the ...
The DCCS CICS welcomes the new generation of students
Monday, 10 August, 2020 |This Friday, August 7, concluded the week of welcoming the new generation of students of the Doctorate in Sciences of Social Complexity, who are integrated in a ...
The DCCS CICS has now its 5th PhD in Social Complexity Sciences
Friday, 7 August, 2020 |Mauricio Aspé Sánchez, psychologist and student of the 2015 generation of the Doctorate in Social Complexity Sciences (DCCS) of the Faculty of Government of the Universidad del ...
FULLCICS: Discussion on decision making beyond rational economic theory
Tuesday, 2 June, 2020 |On April 26th, a new version of the Labgroup of the Doctorate in Social Complexity Sciences (DCCS), FullCICS, carried out monthly. Given the current context of quarantine ...
The DCCS CICS publishes its first digital journal
Tuesday, 12 May, 2020 |The digital format was chosen for the recent publication of the first journal of the Doctorate in Social Complexity Sciences (DCCS) and the Research Center in Social ...
Isabel Behncke: “We spend trillions of dollars on defense systems and we’re brought to our knees by a strand of RNA”
Monday, 13 April, 2020 |These days the agenda of Isabel Behncke Izquierdo, Primatologist and Researcher at the Research Center in Social Complexity (CICS) of the Universidad del Desarrollo, has been full. ...
Outstanding participation of CICS and UDD in successful II Seminar of Science and Innovation in the PUC
Monday, 7 October, 2019 |On Friday, October 4th, the “II Seminar of Science and Innovation: when knowledge is not enough” was held at the UC Innovation Center, organized by the CEM ...
CICS Director gives Keynote Talk about the opportunities and obstacles facing interdisciplinary work in Social Sciences
Tuesday, 10 September, 2019 |At the beginning of the month, the Research Center in Social Complexity (CICS) Director of the Faculty of Government of the Universidad del Desarrollo, Carlos Rodríguez-Sickert, gave ...
Two CICS researchers publish study related to Mozart’s master piece and complex social networks
Thursday, 20 June, 2019 |[caption id="attachment_3514" align="alignleft" width="150" class="align-left align-left "] Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart.[/caption]
By the end of June, the book Evolution and Popular Narrative, edited by Dirk Vanderbeke and Brett ...
[United Kingdom] CICS Researcher and DCCS Professor, Tamas David-Barrett, presents the Richard Wrangham’s new book on evolution, violence and war
Monday, 21 January, 2019 |
The Conway Hall Ethical Society, formerly known as the South Place Ethical Society, is considered the oldest free thought organization in the world and the only remaining ...
“Breaking away from the principle that ‘the other’ is an enemy, is a change of mentality that we have to do” says CICS Researcher
Wednesday, 17 October, 2018 |An outstanding participation had the director and academic of the eResearch Center for Social Complexity (CICS, as its Spanish acronym), Carlos Rodríguez-Sickert, in a new episode of ...
Director of CICS awarded as co-researcher in FONDECYT project
Monday, 10 April, 2017 |Carlos Rodríguez-Sickert, Director of our center, will be a co-researcher on the FONDECYT project titled An evolutionary explanation to elucidate the common psychological root between cooperation and aggressiveness: The ...
CICS researcher Isabel Behncke will present on the first official TED Talk in Spanish
Monday, 10 April, 2017 |
For the first time in TED history, an official full session of lectures in Spanish will be held at the annual conference in Vancouver, which will be ...
First session of Interdisciplinary Discussions: The Foundations of Human Behavior
Monday, 26 September, 2016 |
The Social Complexity Research Center (CICS) of the Government Faculty at Universidad del Desarrollo, together with the Complex Systems Institute of Valparaiso, will held their First Session of Interdisciplinary ...
CICS is awarded with funds to develop the second phase of a FONDEF Project
Friday, 11 March, 2016 |
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 ...
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 |
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 |
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 ...
Functional Cortical Network in Alpha Band Correlates with Social Bargaining
Wednesday, 8 October, 2014 |P. Billeke, F. Zamorano, M. Chavez, D. Cosmelli and F. Aboitiz. PLoS One. DOI: 10.1371.
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Solving demanding tasks requires fast and flexible coordination among different brain areas. Everyday examples ...