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Information about the state of the world reaches the brain through the senses. In contrast to the traditional view postulating that sensory information propagates through the brain in a feed;forward manner, it has recently been suggested that perception is as an active process with the brain constantly generating hypotheses about the causes of its sensory inputs in order to anticipate future events. [more]

Understanding how social influence shapes biological processes is a central challenge in contemporary science, essential for achieving progress in a variety of fields ranging from the organization and evolution of coordinated collective action among cells, or animals, to the dynamics of information exchange in human societies. [more]