Modelling group foraging, social learning, and their neural population correlates in freely behaving monkey (C06)

• Subject Area: Cognitive, Systems and Behavioural Neurobiology
• Term: since 2022
• Project identifier: Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG) - Project number 454648639

To characterise design principles of information sharing and inference in a social group we will expand and study a novel family of theoretical models of group foraging, which regards conspecifics as sources of information. We will then extend our receptive field like models and maximum entropy based models of collective behaviour to characterize social learning and dynamics of group foraging and learning tasks in the lab and in the wild, studied by experimental groups in the CRC. Further, we will use a new family of statistical models to characterise and analyse the activity patterns of large neural populations recorded from monkey cortex during lab experiments.

• DFG Programme: Collaborative Research Centres
• Subproject of: SFB 1528: Cognition of Interaction
• International Connection: Israel
• Applicant Institution: Georg-August-Universität Göttingen
• Project Head: Professor Elad Schneidman, Ph.D.