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ArticleJournal of the Royal Society, Interface2020

Decoding collective communications using information theory tools.

K R Pilkiewicz, B H Lemasson, M A Rowland, A Hein, J Sun, A Berdahl, M L Mayo, J Moehlis, M Porfiri, E Fernández-Juricic and 7 more

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Article in Journal of the Royal Society, Interface, 2020. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 7 papers.

0numbers the graph read from it
0cells of the map it votes in
7citing papers in PubMed
5.9field-weighted citation impact, top 3% of its field
1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.

The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

The trial behind it

Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.

Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.

3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

7 citing papers in PubMed, 42 citations in OpenAlex.

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  5. Body language signals for rodent social communication.Current opinion in neurobiology · 2021
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  6. Collective Emotional Contagion in Zebrafish.Frontiers in behavioral neuroscience · 2021
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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

PubMed lists nothing against this paper. Absence here is not a guarantee, only a check that was made.

5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

17 authors at 11 institutions in 1 country.

K R PilkiewiczEnvironmental Laboratory, U.S. Army Engineer Research and Development Center (EL-ERDC), Vicksburg, MS, USA.
B H LemassonEL-ERDC, Newport, OR, USA.
M A RowlandEnvironmental Laboratory, U.S. Army Engineer Research and Development Center (EL-ERDC), Vicksburg, MS, USA.
A HeinNational Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, Santa Cruz, CA, USA.
J SunDepartment of Mathematics, Clarkson University, Potsdam, NY, USA.
A BerdahlSchool of Aquatic and Fishery Sciences, University of Washington, Seattle, WA, USA.
M L MayoEnvironmental Laboratory, U.S. Army Engineer Research and Development Center (EL-ERDC), Vicksburg, MS, USA.
J MoehlisDepartment of Mechanical Engineering, University of California, Santa Barbara, CA, USA.
M PorfiriDepartment of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering and Department of Biomedical Engineering, New York University Tandon School of Engineering, Brooklyn, NY, USA.
E Fernández-JuricicDepartment of Biological Sciences, Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN, USA.
S GarnierDepartment of Biological Sciences, New Jersey Institute of Technology, Newark, NJ, USA.
E M BolltDepartment of Mathematics, Clarkson University, Potsdam, NY, USA.
J M CarlsonDepartment of Physics, University of California, Santa Barbara, CA, USA.
M R TarampiDepartment of Psychology, University of Hartford, West Hartford, CT, USA.
K L MacugaSchool of Psychological Science, Oregon State University, Corvallis, OR, USA.
L RossiDepartment of Mathematical Sciences, University of Delaware, Newark, DE, USA.
C-C ShenDepartment of Computer and Information Sciences, University of Delaware, Newark, DE, USA.
United States Army · USClarkson University · USUniversity of California, Santa Barbara · USUniversity of Delaware · USNational Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration · USNew Jersey Institute of Technology · USNew York University · USOregon State University · USPurdue University West Lafayette · USUniversity of Hartford · USUniversity of Washington · US

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Organisms have evolved sensory mechanisms to extract pertinent information from their environment, enabling them to assess their situation and act accordingly. For social organisms travelling in groups, like the fish in a school or the birds in a flock, sharing information can further improve their situational awareness and reaction times. Data on the benefits and costs of social coordination, however, have largely allowed our understanding of why collective behaviours have evolved to outpace our mechanistic knowledge of how they arise. Recent studies have begun to correct this imbalance through fine-scale analyses of group movement data. One approach that has received renewed attention is the use of information theoretic (IT) tools like

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CommunicationInformation TheoryAnimalsBirdsEntropyFishescausation entropycollective behaviourmutual informationtransfer entropy

Identifiers

PMID32183638
PMCPMC7115225
OpenAlexW3011822690

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