Selective social interactions and speed-induced leadership in schooling fish
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| author | Puy, Andreu Gimeno, Elisabet Torrents, Jordi Bartashevich, Palina Miguel, M. Carmen Pastor-Satorras, Romualdo Romanczuk, Pawel |
| author_facet | Puy, Andreu Gimeno, Elisabet Torrents, Jordi Bartashevich, Palina Miguel, M. Carmen Pastor-Satorras, Romualdo Romanczuk, Pawel |
| contents | Animals moving together in groups are believed to interact among each other with effective social forces, such as attraction, repulsion and alignment. Such forces can be inferred using 'force maps', i.e. by analysing the dependency of the acceleration of a focal individual on relevant variables. Here we introduce a force map technique suitable for the analysis of the alignment forces experienced by individuals. After validating it using an agent-based model, we apply the force map to experimental data of schooling fish. We observe signatures of an effective alignment force with faster neighbours, and an unexpected anti-alignment with slower neighbours. Instead of an explicit anti-alignment behaviour, we suggest that the observed pattern is the result of a selective attention mechanism, where fish pay less attention to slower neighbours. This mechanism implies the existence of temporal leadership interactions based on relative speeds between neighbours. We present support for this hypothesis both from agent-based modelling, as well as from exploring leader-follower relationships in the experimental data. |
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| spellingShingle | Selective social interactions and speed-induced leadership in schooling fish Puy, Andreu Gimeno, Elisabet Torrents, Jordi Bartashevich, Palina Miguel, M. Carmen Pastor-Satorras, Romualdo Romanczuk, Pawel Biological Physics Animals moving together in groups are believed to interact among each other with effective social forces, such as attraction, repulsion and alignment. Such forces can be inferred using 'force maps', i.e. by analysing the dependency of the acceleration of a focal individual on relevant variables. Here we introduce a force map technique suitable for the analysis of the alignment forces experienced by individuals. After validating it using an agent-based model, we apply the force map to experimental data of schooling fish. We observe signatures of an effective alignment force with faster neighbours, and an unexpected anti-alignment with slower neighbours. Instead of an explicit anti-alignment behaviour, we suggest that the observed pattern is the result of a selective attention mechanism, where fish pay less attention to slower neighbours. This mechanism implies the existence of temporal leadership interactions based on relative speeds between neighbours. We present support for this hypothesis both from agent-based modelling, as well as from exploring leader-follower relationships in the experimental data. |
| title | Selective social interactions and speed-induced leadership in schooling fish |
| topic | Biological Physics |
| url | https://arxiv.org/abs/2305.17108 |