Collective learning and optimal consensus decisions in social animal groups.

Learning has been studied extensively in the context of isolated individuals. However, many organisms are social and consequently make decisions both individually and as part of a collective. Reaching consensus necessarily means that a single option is chosen by the group, even when there are dissen...

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Main Authors: Albert B Kao, Noam Miller, Colin Torney, Andrew Hartnett, Iain D Couzin
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2014-08-01
Series:PLoS Computational Biology
Online Access:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/pmid/25101642/pdf/?tool=EBI