individual based models | Alberto Acerbi

individual based models

Cultural evolution and individual development of openness and conservatism

We present a model of cultural evolution in which an individual's propensity to engage in social learning is affected by social learning itself. We assume that individuals observe cultural traits displayed by others and decide whether to copy them …

To sleep or not to sleep: the ecology of sleep in artificial organisms

All animals thus far studied sleep, but little is known about the ecological factors that generate differences in sleep characteristics across species, such as total sleep duration or division of sleep into multiple bouts across the 24-hour period …