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Fluctuating landscapes and heavy tails in animal behavior.

Antonio Carlos Costa, Gautam Sridhar, Claire Wyart, Massimo Vergassola

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Article in PRX life. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 13 papers.

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

13 citing papers in PubMed.

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  8. Uncovering multiscale structure in the variability of larval zebrafish navigation.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2024
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  12. Fluctuating landscapes and heavy tails in animal behavior.bioRxiv : the preprint server for biology · 2023
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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

4 authors.

Antonio Carlos CostaLaboratoire de Physique de l'Ecole normale supérieure, ENS, Université PSL, CNRS, Sorbonne Université, Université de Paris, F-75005 Paris, France.
Gautam SridharSorbonne University, Paris Brain Institute (ICM), Inserm U1127, CNRS UMR 7225, Paris, France.
Claire WyartSorbonne University, Paris Brain Institute (ICM), Inserm U1127, CNRS UMR 7225, Paris, France.
Massimo VergassolaLaboratoire de Physique de l'Ecole normale supérieure, ENS, Université PSL, CNRS, Sorbonne Université, Université de Paris, F-75005 Paris, France.

Funding

Odor trail tracking: a new paradigm to unveil algorithms and neural circuits underlying active sensation and continuous decision makingRF1NS128865 · NINDS · HARVARD UNIVERSITY · PI DULAC, CATHERINE, MURTHY, VENKATESH N · 2022 to 2022
$2.7M
NINDS NIH HHS RF1 NS128865
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Animal behavior is shaped by a myriad of mechanisms acting on a wide range of scales, which hampers quantitative reasoning and the identification of general principles. Here, we combine data analysis and theory to investigate the relationship between behavioral plasticity and heavy-tailed statistics often observed in animal behavior. Specifically, we first leverage high-resolution recordings of

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