Publications
List of peer-reviewed articles in reverse order of their appearance. Numbered items are publications directly affiliated to the MTA-ELTE Collective Behaviour Research Group. Non-numbered items are previous publications of the group members.
Group publications · Earlier work by group members
2025
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Keskin, G., Duriez, O., Lacerda, P., Flack, A., & Nagy, M. (2025). Adaptive cross-country optimization strategies in thermal soaring birds. iScience, doi.org/10.1016/j.isci.2025.112090
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2024
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Sampaio, E., Sridhar, V. H., Fransisco, F., Nagy, M., Sacchi, A., Strandburg-Peshkin, A., Nührenberg, P., Rosa, R., Couzin, I.D. & Gingins, S. (2024). Multidimensional leadership and composition-driven success in octopus-fish hunting groups. Nature Ecology and Evolution, doi.org/10.1038/s41559-024-02525-2
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Nagy, M., Davidson, J. D., Vásárhelyi, G., Ábel, D., Kubinyi, E., Hady, A. E., & Vicsek, T. (2024). Long-term tracking of social structure in groups of rats. Scientific Reports arXiv:2408.08945
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Amichay, G., Li, L., Nagy, M., & Couzin, I. D. (2024). Revealing the mechanism and function underlying pairwise temporal coupling in collective motion. Nature Communications, 15(1), 4356.
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Waldmann, U., Chan, A. H. H., Naik, H., Nagy, M., Couzin, I. D., Deussen, O., Goldluecke, B. & Kano, F. (2024). 3d-muppet: 3d multi-pigeon pose estimation and tracking. International Journal of Computer Vision, 1-18.
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2023
- 13
Ozogány, K., Kerekes, V., Fülöp, A., Barta, Z., & Nagy, M. (2023). Fine-scale collective movements reveal present, past and future dynamics of a multilevel society in Przewalski’s horses. Nature Communications, 14(1), 5096.
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Nagy, M., Naik, H., Kano, F., Carlson, N. V., Koblitz, J. C., Wikelski, M., & Couzin, I. D. (2023). SMART-BARN: Scalable multimodal arena for real-time tracking behavior of animals in large numbers. Science Advances, 9(35), eadf8068.
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Naik, H., Chan, A. H. H., Yang, J., Delacoux, M., Couzin, I. D., Kano, F., & Nagy, M. (2023). 3D-POP-An automated annotation approach to facilitate markerless 2D-3D tracking of freely moving birds with marker-based motion capture. In Proceedings of the IEEE/CVF Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (pp. 21274-21284).
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Sridhar, V. H., Davidson, J. D., Twomey, C. R., Sosna, M. M., Nagy, M., & Couzin, I. D. (2023). Inferring social influence in animal groups across multiple timescales. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B, 378(1874), 20220062.
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2022
- 9
Kano, F., Naik, H., Keskin, G., Couzin, I. D., & Nagy, M. (2022). Head-tracking of freely-behaving pigeons in a motion-capture system reveals the selective use of visual field regions. Scientific Reports, 12(1), 1-15.
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Waldmann, U., Naik, H., Nagy, M., Kano, F., Couzin, I. D., Deussen, O., & Goldlücke, B. (2022). I-MuPPET: Interactive multi-pigeon pose estimation and tracking. In DAGM German Conference on Pattern Recognition (pp. 513-528). Springer, Cham.
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Zafeiris, A. (2022). Opinion Polarization in Human Communities Can Emerge as a Natural Consequence of Beliefs Being Interrelated. Entropy, 24 (9), 1320.
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Marcelino, R., Sampaio, J., Amichay, G., Gonçalves, B., Couzin, I. D., & Nagy, M. (2022). Kollektives Verhalten im Fußball. In Spielanalyse im Sportspiel (pp. 245-253). Springer Spektrum, Berlin, Heidelberg.
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2021
- 5
Sridhar, V. H., Li, L., Gorbonos, D., Nagy, M., Schell, B. R., Sorochkin, T., Gov, N.S. & Couzin, I. D. (2021). The geometry of decision-making in individuals and collectives. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences,118(50).
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Marcelino, R., Sampaio, J., Amichay, G., Gonçalves, B., Couzin, I. D., & Nagy, M. (2021). Collective Behavior in Football. Match Analysis: How to Use Data in Professional Sport, 18.
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2020
- 3
Li, L., Nagy, M., Graving, J. M., Bak-Coleman, J., Xie, G., & Couzin, I. D. (2020). Vortex phase matching as a strategy for schooling in robots and in fish. Nature Communications, 11(1), 1-9.
Read the paper → Berekméri, E., & Zafeiris, A. (2020). Optimal collective decision making: consensus, accuracy and the effects of limited access to information. Scientific reports, 10(1), 1-12.
Read the paper →Nagy, M., Horicsányi, A., Kubinyi, E., Couzin, I. D., Vásárhelyi, G., Flack, A., & Vicsek, T. (2020). Synergistic benefits of group search in rats, Current Biology 30, 1-6. 10.1016/j.cub.2020.08.079
Read the paper →Marcelino, R., Sampaio, J., Amichay, G., Gonçalves, B., Couzin, I. D., & Nagy, M. (2020). Collective movement analysis reveals coordination tactics of team players in football matches. Chaos, Solitons & Fractals. 138. 109831. 10.1016/j.chaos.2020.109831.
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2019
Berekméri, E., Derényi, I., & Zafeiris, A. (2019). Optimal structure of groups under exposure to fake news. Applied Network Science, 4 (1), 101.
Read the paper →Klein, K., Sommer, B., Nim, H. T., Flack, A., Safi, K., Nagy, M.,… & Quetting, M. (2019). Fly with the flock: immersive solutions for animal movement visualization and analytics. Journal of the Royal Society Interface, 16(153), 20180794.
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2018
Koblitz, J. C., Frokosh, O., Nagy, M., Carlson, N., Naik, H., & Iain, C. (2018). Turning birds into bats—Multi-modal tracking to study collective behaviour. The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, 144(3), 1886-1886.
Read the paper →Nagy, M., Couzin, I. D., Fiedler, W., Wikelski, M., & Flack, A. (2018). Synchronization, coordination and collective sensing during thermalling flight of freely migrating white storks. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences, 373(1746), 20170011.
Read the paper →Flack, A.*, Nagy, M. *, Fiedler, W., Couzin, I. D., & Wikelski, M. (2018) From local collective behavior to global migratory patterns in white storks. Science, 360(6391), 911-914. (* co-first authors)
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2017
Nim, H. T., Sommer, B., Klein, K., Flack, A., Safi, K., Nagy, M.,… & Schreiber, F. (2017, September). Design Considerations for Immersive Analytics of Bird Movements Obtained by Miniaturised GPS Sensors. In VCBM (pp. 27-31).
Read the paper →Watts, I., Nagy, M., Holbrook, R. I., Biro, D., & Burt de Perera, T. (2017). Validating two-dimensional leadership models on three-dimensionally structured fish schools. Royal Society open science, 4(1), 160804.
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2016
Virágh, C., Nagy, M., Gershenson, C., & Vásárhelyi, G. (2016, October). Self-organized UAV traffic in realistic environments. In 2016 IEEE/RSJ international conference on intelligent robots and systems (IROS) (pp. 1645-1652). IEEE.
Read the paper →Neto, J. P., Lopes, G., Frazão, J., Nogueira, J., Lacerda, P., Baião, P.,… & Barquinha, P. (2016). Validating silicon polytrodes with paired juxtacellular recordings: method and dataset. Journal of neurophysiology, 116 (2), 892-903.
Read the paper →Watts, I., Nagy, M., Burt de Perera, T., & Biro, D. (2016). Misinformed leaders lose influence over pigeon flocks. Biology letters, 12(9), 20160544
Read the paper →Watts, I., Pettit, B., Nagy, M., de Perera, T. B., & Biro, D. (2016). Lack of experience-based stratification in homing pigeon leadership hierarchies. Royal Society open science, 3(1), 150518.
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2015
Yomosa, M., Mizuguchi, T., Vásárhelyi, G., & Nagy, M. (2015). Coordinated behaviour in pigeon flocks. Plos one, 10(10), e0140558.
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2014
Ákos, Z., Beck, R., Nagy, M., Vicsek, T., & Kubinyi, E. (2014). Leadership and path characteristics during walks are linked to dominance order and individual traits in dogs. PLoS Comput Biol, 10(1), e1003446.
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2013
Nagy, M., Vásárhelyi, G., Pettit, B., Roberts-Mariani, I., Vicsek, T., & Biro, D. (2013). Context-dependent hierarchies in pigeons. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 110(32), 13049-13054.
Read the paper →Flack, A., Ákos, Z., Nagy, M., Vicsek, T., & Biro, D. (2013). Robustness of flight leadership relations in pigeons. Animal Behaviour, 86(4), 723-732.
Read the paper →Gerencsér, L., Vásárhelyi, G., Nagy, M., Vicsek, T., & Miklósi, A. (2013). Identification of behaviour in freely moving dogs (Canis familiaris) using inertial sensors. PloS one, 8(10), e77814.
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2011
Tarcai, N., Virágh, C., Ábel, D., Nagy, M., Várkonyi, P. L., Vásárhelyi, G., & Vicsek, T. (2011). Patterns, transitions and the role of leaders in the collective dynamics of a simple robotic flock. Journal of Statistical Mechanics: Theory and Experiment, 2011(04), P04010.
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2010
Nagy, M., Ákos, Z., Biro, D., & Vicsek, T. (2010). Hierarchical group dynamics in pigeon flocks. Nature, 464(7290), 890-893.
Read the paper →Ákos, Z., Nagy, M., Leven, S., & Vicsek, T. (2010). Thermal soaring flight of birds and unmanned aerial vehicles. Bioinspiration & biomimetics, 5(4), 045003.
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2009
Szabó, P., Nagy, M., & Vicsek, T. (2009). Transitions in a self-propelled-particles model with coupling of accelerations. Physical Review E, 79(2), 021908.
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2008
Akos, Z., Nagy, M., & Vicsek, T. (2008). Comparing bird and human soaring strategies. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 105(11), 4139-4143.
Read the paper →Gönci, B., Nagy, M., & Vicsek, T. (2008). Phase transition in the scalar noise model of collective motion in three dimensions. The European Physical Journal Special Topics, 157(1), 53-59.
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2007
Nagy, M., Daruka, I., & Vicsek, T. (2007). New aspects of the continuous phase transition in the scalar noise model (SNM) of collective motion. Physica A: Statistical Mechanics and its Applications, 373, 445-454.
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