Studying social behavior is crucial for understanding how certain neuromodulatory pathways—like the serotonin pathway, which influences mood and social interactions—are regulated. Kavita Babu, ...

Group living is common across many species, and group sizes range from small (e.g., the Elephant herd and Lion pride) to very large (e.g., bird flocks or fish schools). Different species evolved ...

A perspective in the Journal of the Royal Society Interface argues that advances in AI, sensing technologies and modeling are transforming the study of collective animal behavior, with implications ...

From schools of fish darting away from sharks to flocks of starlings swirling through the sky, the animal kingdom is full of examples of how group behavior offers a survival advantage. Through ...

BROOKLYN, New York, Monday, April 11, 2022 – Collective dynamics are ubiquitous in the natural world. From neural circuits to animal groups, there are countless instances in which the interactions ...

We are constantly surrounded by temptations that are not in our best interest. That is, they are often neither in the best interest of us individually (e.g., succumbing to a sugar intake that is ...