We
aim at understanding how animals make decisions in social contexts from
behavioral, cognitive, evolutionary and neurobiological viewpoints.
We perform creative mathematical modelling, data analysis and experimental work. Selected publications  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 |
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