Predation and the evolution of gregariousness. I. Models for concealment and evasion

Geometry for the selfish herd

1971 • 3,348 citations

On the advantages of flocking

1973 • 1,290 citations

THE IMPORTANCE OF CERTAIN ASSEMBLAGES OF BIRDS AS “INFORMATION‐CENTRES” FOR FOOD‐FINDING

1973 • 1,065 citations

Temporal and spatial summation in human vision at different background intensities

1958 • 681 citations

Hydromechanics of Fish Schooling

1973 • 598 citations

Vision and Visual Perception

1966 • 453 citations

FLOCKING AND FEEDING IN THE GREAT TIT PARUS MAJOR–AN EXPERIMENTAL STUDY

1972 • 405 citations

An Experiment On Spacing-Out as a Defence Against Predation

1967 • 380 citations

Social behaviour in birds and mammals

1971 • 359 citations

The Food Searching Behaviour of Two European Thrushes. Ii: the Adaptiveness of the Search Patterns

1974 • 331 citations

Risk of visual detection and pursuit by a predator and the selective advantage of flocking behaviour

1971 • 262 citations

Fish Schooling: A Possible Factor in Reducing Predation

1960 • 195 citations

Comparative Psychology: A Modern Survey

1976 • 189 citations

The hunting behaviour of individual great tits in relation to spatial variations in their food density

1971 • 173 citations

Signal Detection in Fixed-Ratio Schedules

1965 • 168 citations

The Food Searching Behaviour of Two European Thrushes

1974 • 167 citations

Why do Fish School?

1968 • 121 citations

Noise and Weber's law: The discrimination of brightness and other dimensions.

1964 • 109 citations

Theory of the Neural Quantum in the Discrimination of Loudness and Pitch

1941 • 105 citations

THE EFFECT OF ONE STIMULUS ON THE THRESHOLD FOR ANOTHER: AN APPLICATION OF SIGNAL DETECTABILITY THEORY¹

1964 • 96 citations

On the Existence of "Pursuit Invitation" Signals in Mammals

1970 • 96 citations

Decision theory, the pigeon, and the psychophysical function.

1967 • 88 citations

Visual Acuity as a Function of Intensity and Exposure-Time

1937 • 88 citations

Predation and the evolution of gregariousness. II. An economic model for predator-prey interaction

1975 • 85 citations

Detection of prey flocks by predators

1973 • 84 citations

On the survival value of fish schools

1967 • 82 citations

PERCEPTION OF MOVEMENT

1937 • 76 citations

NATURAL SELECTION AND THE FUNCTIONS OF FLOCKING IN BIRDS: A REPLY TO MURTON

1972 • 74 citations

The relation between the rate threshold for the perception of movement and luminance for various durations of exposure.

1955 • 74 citations

Photographic Granularity and Graininess*III Some Characteristics of the Visual System of Importance in the Evaluation of Graininess and Granularity

1947 • 71 citations

Visual Velocity Discrimination: Effects of Spatial and Temporal Cues

1962 • 58 citations

A statistical decision model for sensory discrimination which predicts Weber’s law and other sensory laws: Some results of a computer simulation

1966 • 55 citations

On a theory of search

1971 • 51 citations

The Survival Value of Fish Schooling

1964 • 44 citations

The Quantum of Sensory Discrimination

1940 • 43 citations

Psychobiology Behavior from a Biological Perspective

1971 • 42 citations

Effect of Length on the Visibility of a Fine Line*

1959 • 35 citations

Response-Sequences and the Hypothesis of the Neural Quantum

1957 • 34 citations

Movement detection thresholds and stimulus duration

1972 • 33 citations

Velocity Discrimination and the Intensity-Time Relation

1955 • 33 citations

DETECTION OF INCREMENTS IN NOISE INTENSITY BY MONKEYS¹

1972 • 32 citations

A stochastic theory of search: Implications for predator-prey situations

1971 • 24 citations

The visibility of a target as a function of its speed of movement.

1953 • 22 citations

Experiments in Animal Psychophysics

1961 • 22 citations

The neural quantum theory of sensory discrimination.

1956 • 20 citations

The Visibility of Lines and Squares at High Brightnesses1

1947 • 18 citations

The effect of extent on the intensity-time relation for the visual discrimination of movement.

1957 • 17 citations

Decision Theory in Studies of Discrimination in Animals

1965 • 16 citations

Evaluation of the Neural Quantum Theory in Vision

1953 • 11 citations

The relation between foveal intensity threshold and length of an illuminated slit.

1944 • 10 citations

A COMPARISON OF TWO PSYCHOPHYSICAL METHODS USING ANIMALS¹

1966 • 5 citations

Sensory Processes and Behavior

1971 • 4 citations