An Effective Hydrodynamic Description of Marching Locusts

no code implementations • 3 Aug 2023 • Dan Gorbonos, Felix Oberhauser, Luke L. Costello, Yannick Günzel, Einat Couzin-Fuchs, Benjamin Koger, Iain D. Couzin

Here, we address these questions using as a canonical example of a self-organizing complex system - the collective motion of desert locusts.

The Geometrical Structure of Bifurcations During Spatial Decision-Making

no code implementations • 11 Jul 2023 • Dan Gorbonos, Nir S. Gov, Iain D. Couzin

Here we employ a simple model of this process to both explore how its dynamics account for the experimentally-observed abruptly-branching trajectories exhibited by animals during spatial decision-making, and to provide new insights into spatiotemporal computation.

Decision Making