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Omar David Perez Riveros

Profesor Asistente

Universidad de Chile

santiago, Chile

Líneas de Investigación


Reinforcement Learning; instrumental learning; pavlovian conditioning; behavioral economics; consumer behavior; Neuroeconomics

Educación

  •  Psychology, UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE. Chile, 2018
  •  Mathematics, UNIVERSIDAD DE SANTIAGO DE CHILE. Chile, 2012
  •  Economics, UNIVERSIDAD DE SANTIAGO DE CHILE. Chile, 2008

Experiencia Académica

  •   Instructor Professor Part Time

    UNIVERSIDAD DE SANTIAGO DE CHILE

    Business and Economics

    Santiago, Chile

    2016 - 2022

  •   Postdoctoral Scholar in Neuroscience Full Time

    CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY

    Division of the Humanities and Social Sciences

    Pasadena, Estados Unidos

    2017 - 2020

  •   Postdoctoral Scholar Research Associate in Neuroscience Full Time

    CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY

    Division of the Humanities and Social Sciences

    Pasadena, Chile

    2020 - 2022

Experiencia Profesional

  •   Investigador Asociado Part Time

    Universidad de Santiago de Chile

    santiago, Chile

    2008 - 2010

  •   Economist Part Time

    Macrocap S.A.

    Chile

    2007 - 2010

  •   Research Associate Other

    Nuffield College CESS - Santiago/Oxford

    Chile

    2016 - 2022

  •   Editorial Board Member Other

    Psychological Science

    Estados Unidos

    2024 - A la fecha

  •   Associate Editor Other

    Open Mind: Discoveries in Cognitive Science

    Estados Unidos

    2023 - A la fecha

Formación de Capital Humano


Co-supervised with John O'Doherty at Caltech, several Ph.D. students:
Anastasia Bukalskaya, 2018, Caltech
Weilun Ding, 2019, Caltech
Aniek Fransen, 2018, Caltech
Iman Wahle, 2020, Caltech

Co-supervised, with Angelo Guevara and Marcela Munizaga, Ph.D. student in Systems Engineering:
Bastian Henriquez-Jara, 2022-2024

Official supervisor for undergraduate studies in Industrial Engineering:
Sebastian Muñoz, 2024.


Premios y Distinciones

  •   Member of Advisory Board Centro de Ingeniería Organizacional

    UNIVERSIDAD DE CHILE

    Chile, 2024

    Member of the advisory board for the Centro de Ingeniería Organizacional. We convene once or twice per year to discuss future prospects and strategic planning for the center.


 

Article (15)

Habits and the subexploration of better transportation options: A dual-system approach
Low occasion setter salience results in learning conditional stimulus partial reinforcement instead of occasion setting
Ambiguity drives higher-order Pavlovian learning
Dual-System Free-Operant Avoidance: Extension of a Theory
Why is the Rescorla-Wagner model so influential?
Action sequences, habits, and attention in copying strategies
Determining the effects of training duration on the behavioral expression of habitual control in humans: a multilaboratory investigation
Subsampling of cues in associative learning
Instrumental behavior in humans is sensitive to the correlation between response rate and reward rate
Pavlovian occasion setting in human fear and appetitive conditioning: Effects of trait anxiety and trait depression
A theory of actions and habits: The interaction of rate correlation and contiguity systems in free-operant behavior.
Evidence for a dissociation between causal beliefs and instrumental actions
Computational approaches to habits in a model-free world
Exploring the Effect of Stimulus Similarity on the Summation Effect in Causal Learning
A re-examination of responding on ratio and regulated-probability interval schedules

BookSection (2)

The Rate-Correlation Theory of Goal-Directed Behavior: An Update
Actions and Habits: Psychological issues in Dual-System Theory.

Proyecto (3)

Habits, attention and consumer behavior
The role of attention in consumer behavior
Determining the explanatory utility of computational reinforcement-learning theories of goal-directed and habitual control at behavioral and neural levels
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Marcela Munizaga

Vice Dean

Universidad de Chile

Santiago, Chile

20
Omar Perez

Profesor Asistente

Ingenieria Industrial

Universidad de Chile

santiago, Chile

1
Cristian Guevara

Profesor Asociado

Ingiería Civil

Universidad de Chile

Santiago, Chile

1
Bastian Henriquez

Assistant Professor

Civil Engineering

Universidad de Chile

Santiago, Chile