BEHAVIOUR 2013
4 – 8 AUGUST 2013
NEWCASTLEGATESHEAD, UK
International Ethological Conference
Association for the Study of Animal Behaviour
4 – 8 AUGUST 2013
NEWCASTLEGATESHEAD, UK
International Ethological Conference
Association for the Study of Animal Behaviour
Programme
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Plenary talks:
Iain Couzin, Princeton University, USA
Iain’s work addresses adaptive collective phenomena in animal groups such as bird flocks, fish schools and insect swarms. He uses a combination of experimental and theoretical approaches. His talk will explore the principles of collective intelligence, and by explicitly reconstructing sensory networks in mobile animal groups, how distributed sensing and decision-making emerge from the dynamics of social interactions.
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Sharoni Shafir, Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel
Sharoni's interests are in cognition and behavioural ecology of honeybees. He has extended the study of risk-sensitivity and context-dependent evaluations in decision making from the vertebrate systems where they are usually studied to the bee, producing a series of remarkable experimental studies.
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