Pedestrian crowds can form the substrate of important socially contagious behaviors,
including propagation of visual attention, violence, opinions, and emotional state. However …

The human ability to synchronize with other individuals is critical for the development of
social behavior. Recent research has shown that physiological inter-personal …

Highlights•We study human exit route choice in virtual evacuations.•Subjects had to escape
from a building and had to choose between different exit routes.•We found no inherent …

Dynamical networks are important models for the behaviour of complex systems, modelling
physical, biological and societal systems, including the brain, food webs, epidemic disease …

We investigate key principles underlying individual, and collective, visual detection of
stimuli, and how this relates to the internal structure of groups. While the individual and …

Many species, including humans, display group behavior. Thus, perceiving crowds may be
important for social interaction and survival. Here, we provide the first evidence that humans …

Bird flocks under predation demonstrate complex patterns of collective escape. These
patterns may emerge by self-organization from local interactions among group-members …

Interacting pedestrians in a crowd spontaneously adjust their footsteps and align their
respective stepping phases. This self-organization phenomenon is known as …

Collective animal behavior is an emergent phenomenon arising from the local interactions of
the members of animal groups. Considerable progress has been made in characterizing …

Animal collective movements are a key example of a system that links two clearly defined
levels of organization: the individual and the group. Most models investigating collective …