Selective decision-making and collective behavior of fish by the motion of visual attention.

ABSTRACT: Collective motion provides a spectacular example of self-organization in Nature. Visual information plays a crucial role among various types of information in determining interactions. Recently, experiments have revealed that organisms such as fish and insects selectively utilize a portion, rather than the entirety, of visual information. Here, focusing on fish, we propose an agent-based model where the direction of attention is guided by visual stimuli received from the images of nearby fish. Our model reproduces a branching phenomenon where a fish selectively follows a specific individual as the distance between two or three nearby fish increases. Furthermore, our model replicates various patterns of collective motion in a group of agents, such as vortex, polarized school, swarm, and tur

SUBMITTER: Ito S 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11264410 | biostudies-literature | 2024 Jul

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature