Modeling fish schools to uncover neural mechanisms of collective movement
Palka Puri, David Zada, Julia Napoli, Emily Mackevicius, Matthew Lovett-Barron, Johnatan Aljadeff · COSYNE 2025
Animals exhibit a dazzling array of collective behaviors. Recent studies have characterized the neural representations of relevant behavioral variables, like conspecific-location, in such contexts. However, much less is known about the neural mechanisms mediating interactions between individuals in a group, and the sensorimotor transformations responsible for complex group behavior. To advance our understanding of the neural basis of group behaviors, we studied collective motion (‘schooling’) of micro glassfish (Danionella cerebrum). Danionella schooling emerges during the first 8 weeks post-f
ePoster · Neuroscience