Archivo de Tags ‘research’

Research on music education in children by Dr. Leonie Kausel from CICS, is featured in Frontiers en Neuroscience

Tuesday, 20 October, 2020 |
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 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] Understanding human behavior from a functional perspective

Wednesday, 1 July, 2020 |
Interdiscipline is the central axis for the work at the Research Center in Social Complexity (CICS) of the Faculty of Government, UDD. In this sense, its institutional ...


Cerebral Cortex publishes CICS study on feedback stimuli in the anterior insula, which would be crucial to learn how to adapt to different situations

Thursday, 18 June, 2020 |
The prestigious Cerebral Cortex Journal - which publishes papers on the development, organization, plasticity and function of the cerebral cortex, including the hippocampus - has just published ...


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. ...


Seminar organized by CEBCS and CICS showed important results on child welfare in Chile

Friday, 4 October, 2019 |
Last Tuesday, October 1 and Wednesday, October 2, the International Seminar “Child Welfare in Chile: contributions from the School” was held in Santiago and Concepción, respectively, whose ...


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 ...


CICS UDD is awarded a Fondef to develop a platform that allows a better decision in Higher Education

Wednesday, 28 August, 2019 |
In 2019, 154,366 young people applied for the Sistema Único de Admisión ([SUA] single admission system) which includes 41 universities, and establishes a student selection system of ...


Two representatives of CICS UDD participated in the first day of pitch presentation of the HubTecGO program

Tuesday, 13 August, 2019 |
This Monday, was held at the Hotel Plaza El Bosque in Las Condes the first pitch of the projects from the technology maturation program, “HubTecGO!”, whose objective ...


Dr. Francisco Zamorano’s Fondecyt: “Soccer can be seen as a model of war, but in times of peace”

Friday, 26 July, 2019 |
"In his life, a man can change women, political parties or religions, but he cannot change soccer teams." - Eduardo Galeano People organize their lives around group identities ...


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 ...


Strong presence of CICS researchers and DCCS students in the 31st version of the HBES 2019 Congress in Boston

Wednesday, 5 June, 2019 |
Presentations covered topics as diverse as the role of social joy in evolution, elicitation jealousy in the laboratory, demographic processes and adherence to social norms; and the ...


In a successful talk organized by CICS, Andrew Sliwinski, presented Scratch, the programming tool for children

Monday, 3 June, 2019 |
In the mid-1990s, and having a big entrance in the 21st century, technology in education began to have more force within the classrooms in a transversal manner. ...


Isabel Behncke and her visit to the Congo: “It helped me a lot to have tolerance for uncertainty”

Friday, 17 May, 2019 |
With a full space with more than 100 people, Isabel Behncke, primatologist, PhD in Evolutionary Anthropology at the University of Oxford, and collaborating researcher at the Research ...


The effects demographic transition has on the social network, is the topic addressed by CICS researcher, Tamas David-Barrett, in his most recent paper

Tuesday, 26 February, 2019 |
Why falling fertility, urbanisation, and migration leads to a major shift in the way our societies work.  Consequence: the traditional way of norms being enforced by close-knit ...


[PAPER] NeuroCICS researchers have recently published a study that contributes to clarifying social difficulties in children with austistic spectrum disorders (ASD)

Monday, 25 February, 2019 |
The Autistic Spectrum Disorders (ASD) are considered one of the most complex neurodevelopmental disorders to understand. People suffering from autism spectrum disorders are characterized by difficulties that ...


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