We aim at understanding how animals, including humans, interact and decide in groups. 

We perform creative mathematical modelling, data analysis, build new video tracking techniques and test our hypotheses in zebrafish and humans. 

Additional interests of the lab include testing hypothesis about evolutionary advantages of basic anatomical and processing features of brains.


Selected publications

 


S. Arganda, A. Perez-Escudero & G.G. de Polavieja, 'A common rule for decision-making in animal collectives across species' PNAS 109(50) 20508-20513 pdf








                                                                                                        
                                   



M. Rivera-Alba, S. N. Vitaladevuni, Y. Mischenko, Z. Lu, S. Takemura, L. Scheffer, I. A. Meinertzhagen, D. B. Chklovskii & G.G. de Polavieja, 'Wiring economy and volume exclusion determine neuronal placement in the Drosophila brain', Current Biology 21, 2000 (2011) pdf

Dispatch of the paper by Charles Stevens in Current Biology here









 


A. Perez-Escudero & G. G. de Polavieja, 'Collective Animal Behavior from Bayesian Estimation and Probability Matching', PLoS Comp. Biol. 7(11): e1002282 (2011) open access












A. Pérez-Escudero, M. Rivera-Alba & G. G. de Polavieja, 'Structure of deviations from optimality in biological systems', PNAS 106, 20544-20549 (2009) open access





S. Arganda, R. Guantes & G. G. de Polavieja, 'Sodium pumps adapt spike bursting to stimulus statistics', Nature Neuroscience 10, 1467-1473 (2007) pdf