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SUBMITTER: Jiang L
PROVIDER: S-EPMC5697824 | biostudies-literature | 2017 Nov
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Jiang Li L Giuggioli Luca L Perna Andrea A Escobedo Ramón R Lecheval Valentin V Sire Clément C Han Zhangang Z Theraulaz Guy G
PLoS computational biology 20171121 11
Schools of fish and flocks of birds can move together in synchrony and decide on new directions of movement in a seamless way. This is possible because group members constantly share directional information with their neighbors. Although detecting the directionality of other group members is known to be important to maintain cohesion, it is not clear how many neighbors each individual can simultaneously track and pay attention to, and what the spatial distribution of these influential neighbors ...[more]