Symmetry restoring bifurcation in collective decision-making.

How social groups and organisms decide between alternative feeding sites or shelters has been extensively studied both experimentally and theoretically. One key result is the existence of a symmetry-breaking bifurcation at a critical system size, where there is a switch from evenly distributed explo...

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Main Authors: Natalia Zabzina, Audrey Dussutour, Richard P Mann, David J T Sumpter, Stamatios C Nicolis
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2014-12-01
Series:PLoS Computational Biology
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pcbi.1003960