Deciphering the hidden interactions within biological networks of varying sizes
Thursday, May 7, 2020 - 09:20
in Psychology & Sociology
Collective behaviors are the result of dynamic local interactions between individual members of the collective. While the actions of a collective are readily observable, the interactions remain hidden and have traditionally been difficult to analyze. Now, researchers from the University of Tsukuba applied integrated information theory to understand how varying sizes of a collective of fish affect the interactions between its individual members.