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Neuronal detection of social actions directs collective escape behaviour


Collective escape in Danionella cerebrum arises from visual detection of rapid, biologically realistic motion of other fish, with midbrain and thalamic neurons encoding social offsets that enable fish to infer danger from others’ behaviour.

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