Imitation Combined with a Characteristic Stimulus Duration Results in Robust Collective Decision-Making.

For group-living animals, reaching consensus to stay cohesive is crucial for their fitness, particularly when collective motion starts and stops. Understanding the decision-making at individual and collective levels upon sudden disturbances is central in the study of collective animal behavior, and...

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Main Authors: Sylvain Toulet, Jacques Gautrais, Richard Bon, Fernando Peruani
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2015-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC4605660?pdf=render