Self-organizing processes: The sound of many hands clapping

By Z. Néda, E. Ravasz, Y. Bréchet, Tamás Vicsek, Albert-László Barabási. Nature, 2000

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An audience expresses appreciation for a good performance by the strength and nature of its applause. The thunder of applause at the start often turns quite suddenly into synchronized clapping, and this synchronization can disappear and reappear several times during the applause. The phenomenon is a delightful expression of social self-organization that provides an example on a human scale of the synchronization processes that occur in numerous natural systems, ranging from flashing Asian fireflies to oscillating chemical reactions. Here we explain the dynamics of this rhythmic applause.

Subfields: Cognitive Neuroscience, Computer Networks and Communications, Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition

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Networks beyond pairwise interactions: structure and dynamics (2020, background): “[349] Zoltán Néda, Erzsébet Ravasz, Yves Brechet, Tamás Vicsek, and A-L Barabási.”
Swarm Robotic Behaviors and Current Applications (2020, background): “There are many more examples of coupled oscillating systems, e.g., pacemaker cells in the heart (Peskin, 1975) or clapping of spectators in a theater (Néda et al., 2000).”
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