At the wider scale of transport across the whole USA, animations show the delicate latticework of air traffic movements each dot a scheduled aircraft, terrifying in terms of volume, but apparently flowing smoothly in beautiful synchronised patterns.
Introducing 'quiet times' has also been shown to improve general well-being [ 19] and sleep patterns when synchronised with natural circadian rhythms [ 18].
Although the influence of frequency dependent selection selection (e.g. the threat of usurpation by floater females) will tend to synchronise the temporal pattern of all externally driven activity breaks [ 38], the observed synchronization of colony activity in aggregations of e.g. L. malachurum is readily explained by the shelter a closed nest provides for the developing brood.
In this study we assume that both dance styles (traditional and ballroom) are equally effective because they share similar principles: movements are synchronised to music and organised into spatial patterns which tend to be modular in organisation (i.e., composed of discrete sections that are repetitive).
All individuals in the control group displayed consistent sleep patterns of either consolidated sleep/activity phases synchronised to the day/night cycle (n = 5, example in Fig. 3(a)), consolidated sleep phases with delayed sleep onsets (n = 11, example in Fig. 3(b)) or less consolidated and fragmented sleep phases (n = 5, example in Fig. 3(c)).
In other words, the birds are not simply repeating what they have heard – they are pursuing a narrative embodied by the dynamical attractors (central pattern generators) in their generative models that have been synchronised through sensory exchange.
Force is developed slowly by these muscles when driven by a motor pattern in which motor spikes to both hind legs are tightly synchronised [ 36].
Despite the importance of egg development to the female life cycle in Drosophila, global patterns of gene expression have not been examined in detail, primarily due to the difficulty in isolating synchronised developmental stages in sufficient quantities for gene expression profiling.
Diving, synchronised swimming.
Migrations are tightly synchronised.
