Both information and social cohesion determine collective decisions in animal groups

The Dynamics of Coordinated Group Hunting and Collective Information Transfer among Schooling Prey

(2012) Nils Olav Handegard et al.   CURRENT BIOLOGY

Evidence for Two Numerical Systems That Are Similar in Humans and Guppies

(2012) Christian Agrillo et al.   PLoS One

A common rule for decision making in animal collectives across species

(2012) S. Arganda et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Molecular Determinants of Scouting Behavior in Honey Bees

(2012) Zhengzheng S. Liang et al.   SCIENCE

Predatory Fish Select for Coordinated Collective Motion in Virtual Prey

(2012) C. C. Ioannou et al.   SCIENCE

Group Living Enhances Individual Resources Discrimination: The Use of Public Information by Cockroaches to Assess Shelter Quality

(2011) Stéphane Canonge et al.   PLoS One

Rational Choice, Context Dependence, and the Value of Information in European Starlings (Sturnus vulgaris)

(2011) E. Freidin et al.   SCIENCE

Uninformed Individuals Promote Democratic Consensus in Animal Groups

(2011) I. D. Couzin et al.   SCIENCE

Learning by proportional observation in a species of fish

(2010) Thomas W. Pike et al.   BEHAVIORAL ECOLOGY

Conformist learning in nine-spined sticklebacks' foraging decisions

(2010) T. W. Pike et al.   Biology Letters

Spontaneous emergence of social influence in online systems

(2010) J.-P. Onnela et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Why Copy Others? Insights from the Social Learning Strategies Tournament

(2010) L. Rendell et al.   SCIENCE

Optimally Interacting Minds

(2010) B. Bahrami et al.   SCIENCE

Evidence for a Collective Intelligence Factor in the Performance of Human Groups

(2010) Anita Williams Woolley et al.   SCIENCE

Empirical investigation of starling flocks: a benchmark study in collective animal behaviour

(2008) Michele Ballerini et al.   ANIMAL BEHAVIOUR

State-dependent valuation learning in fish: Banded tetras prefer stimuli associated with greater past deprivation

(2008) J.M. Aw et al.   BEHAVIOURAL PROCESSES

Consensus Decision Making by Fish

(2008) David J.T. Sumpter et al.   CURRENT BIOLOGY

Quorum responses and consensus decision making

(2008) D. J.T Sumpter et al.   PHILOSOPHICAL TRANSACTIONS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

Group decisions in humans and animals: a survey

(2008) L. Conradt et al.   PHILOSOPHICAL TRANSACTIONS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

Quorum decision-making facilitates information transfer in fish shoals

(2008) A. J. W. Ward et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Collective cognition in animal groups

(2008) Iain D. Couzin   TRENDS IN COGNITIVE SCIENCES