Visual attention is often hypothesized to play a causal role in the development of autism spectrum disorder (ASD). Because attention shapes perception, learning, and social interaction, early deficits in attention could substantially impact the development of other perceptual and cognitive abilities. Here we test two key attentional phenomena thought to be disrupted in autism: attentional disen...

The problem of social consensus is approached from the perspective of nonlinear dynamics of interacting agents in a complex network. Some basic concepts, such as dynamical metastability, are discussed in the framework of the prototype voter model. In the context of Axelrod’s model for the dissemination of culture we describe a co-evolutionary dynamics formulation with recent results on group fo...

  Social capital as a concept which is related to social contextand as a new element besides other factors like environmental, Genetic and individual factors has attracted interests of professional and authorities in national and international levels. This approach has attracted attentions in low-income countries which have source limitations for interventions. This paper introduces concepts re...

mud volcanoes are defined as main elements of geological structures and ways through and within which buried argillaceous loose sediments and lithified rocks. the gharniaregh tappeh and naftelijeh mud volcanoes are the most attractive geomorphological phenomena in continental which appear along the eastern coast of the caspian sea. the naftelijeh mud volcano is more active than gharniaregh–tapp...

This thesis explores the problems raised by the aggregation of entities into a global,collective level, an old problem encountered in many fields of science. We work on threeprojects related to the aggregation problem in social systems, using tools derived fromstatistical physics, and more generally quantitative tools. Great care is taken to tacklethe questions at the heart of t...

The aim of this paper is to show that there is a reciprocal dependency relationship between social cognition and social ontology. It is argued that, on the one hand, the existence conditions of socially meaningful objects and of social groups are about sucjets’ social cognitive processes and interactive patterns and, on the other hand, social cognitive processes and interactive patterns are mod...

BACKGROUND Decades of research have revealed rich cultural repertoires encompassing multiple traditions in wild great apes, a picture crucially complemented by experimental simulations with captive apes. Studies with wild capuchin monkeys, the most encephalized simian species, have indicated a New World convergence on these cultural phenomena, involving multiple traditions and tool use. However...

Our research centres in the application of computational modelling to social sciences, more concretely, computer simulation of social phenomena. When these programs are represented specifically like agents we refer to them as Agent Based Modelling (ABM). The executions of these agent-based computational models are known as Agent-Based Social Simulations (ABSS). There are various libraries for d...

Mud volcanoes are defined as main elements of geological structures and ways through and within which buried argillaceous loose sediments and lithified rocks. The Gharniaregh Tappeh and Naftelijeh mud volcanoes are the most attractive geomorphological phenomena in continental which appear along the eastern coast of the Caspian Sea. The Naftelijeh mud volcano is more active than Gharniaregh–Tapp...