Information transfer and behavioural inertia in starling flocks

Nature Physics

Volumn 10, Issue 9, 2014, Pages 691-696

  Attanasi, Alessandro ^a,b   Cavagna, Andrea ^a,b,c   Del Castello, Lorenzo ^a,b   Giardina, Irene ^a,b,c   Grigera, Tomas S ^d,e   Jelic, Asja ^a,b   Melillo, Stefania ^a,b   Parisi, Leonardo ^a,b   Pohl, Oliver ^a,b   Shen, Edward ^a,b   Viale, Massimiliano ^a,b  

^a CNR   (Italy)

^b SAPIENZA UNIVERSITY OF ROME   (Italy)

^c CITY UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK   (United States)

^d INSTITUTO DE INVESTIGACIONES FISICOQUÍMICAS TEÓRICAS Y APLICADAS INIFTA   (Argentina)

^e Facultad de Ciencias Naturales e Instituto M Lillo   (Argentina)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DIGITAL STORAGE; HISTORIC PRESERVATION;

BEHAVIOURAL CHANGES; COLLECTIVE DECISION MAKING; COLLECTIVE MOTIONS; DIFFUSIVE TRANSPORT; INFORMATION TRANSFERS; ORIENTATIONAL ORDERINGS; SPONTANEOUS SYMMETRY BREAKING; TRANSFER OF INFORMATION;

DECISION MAKING;

EID: 84904527372     PISSN: 17452473     EISSN: 17452481     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/NPHYS3035     Document Type: Article

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