Individuals physically interacting in a group rapidly coordinate their movement by estimating the collective goal

How can a human collective coordinate, for example to move a banquet table, when each person is influenced by the inertia of others who may be inferior at the task? We hypothesized that large groups cannot coordinate through touch alone, accruing to a zero-sum scenario where individuals inferior at...

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Main Authors: Atsushi Takagi, Masaya Hirashima, Daichi Nozaki, Etienne Burdet
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: eLife Sciences Publications Ltd 2019-02-01
Series:eLife
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Online Access:https://elifesciences.org/articles/41328