The study offers the first evidence yet of a common algorithm that governs decision-making across species and suggests that fundamental geometric principles can explain how, and why, animals move the ...

We propose a partitioning algorithm to solve a class of linear-quadratic Markov decision processes with inequality constraints and nonconvex stagewise cost; within each region of the partitioned state ...

One algorithm to rule decision-making Date: December 19, 2021 Source: University of Konstanz Summary: Researchers uncover a single rule for how animals make spatial decisions while on the move. Share: ...

From individuals to collectives The scientists also found that the same geometric principles likely apply to spatial decision-making by animal collectives, such as mobile herds or flocks.

Researchers have employed virtual reality to decode the algorithm that animals use when deciding where to go among many options.