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Linking Cognitive Strategy, Neural Mechanism, and Movement Statistics in Group Foraging Behaviors

Linking Cognitive Strategy, Neural Mechanism, and Movement Statistics in Group Foraging Behaviors

November 4, 2024
In a new paper, we combined cognitive neuroscience with statistical methods to model group foraging behavior. Our ongoing work aims to construct a unifying framework that allows researchers to analyze complex group behaviors across different species and environments.
Paper
Thermal video data collected in the field, showing the trajectories of foraging birds in their natural environment. Reproduced from [1].

A new paper1 from the Collaborative Intelligent Systems group at Basis derives analytical equivalences between cognitive, neuroscientific, and statistical desriptions of foraging, and demonstrates that resulting models can be used to predict the movement of foraging birds.

Read a full “Behind the Paper” blogpost by senior author and Basis co-founder Emily Mackevicius at Nature.

The code is available at our GitHub.

Contributors

Research: Rafal Urbaniak, Marjorie Xie, Emily Mackevicius

Article: Karen Schroeder

References

  1. Rafal Urbaniak, Marjorie Xie, and Emily Mackevicius, “Linking cognitive strategy, neural mechanism, and movement statistics in group foraging behaviors,” Nature Scientific Reports, 2024. ↩︎