Abstract:Abstract. Claims based on power laws that cognition occurs in a critical state often rely on the assumption that the network observables studied are observables of cognition, however this relationship to function is not clear. Our novel approach to investigate this problem is instead to consider functional output during (goal-directed) pre-copulatory courtship of Drosophila melanogaster, which we study as a complex network. This courtship body language, expressed through a symbolic dynamics, has previously bee… Show more
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