Individual versus collective cognition in social insects

An Informational Study of the Evolution of Codes and of Emerging Concepts in Populations of Agents

(2016) Andrés C. Burgos et al.   ARTIFICIAL LIFE

Stigmergic construction and topochemical information shape ant nest architecture

(2016) Anaïs Khuong et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

A locally-blazed ant trail achieves efficient collective navigation despite limited information

(2016) Ehud Fonio et al.   eLife

Social complexity, diet, and brain evolution: modeling the effects of colony size, worker size, brain size, and foraging behavior on colony fitness in ants

(2015) Ofer Feinerman et al.   BEHAVIORAL ECOLOGY AND SOCIOBIOLOGY

Complex alarm strategy in the most basal termite species

(2015) Olivier Delattre et al.   BEHAVIORAL ECOLOGY AND SOCIOBIOLOGY

Beyond contact-based transmission networks: the role of spatial coincidence

(2015) Thomas O. Richardson et al.   Journal of the Royal Society Interface

Termite mounds harness diurnal temperature oscillations for ventilation

(2015) Hunter King et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Ant groups optimally amplify the effect of transiently informed individuals

(2015) Aviram Gelblum et al.   Nature Communications

Ant trophallactic networks: simultaneous measurement of interaction patterns and food dissemination

(2015) Efrat Greenwald et al.   Scientific Reports

Brood care in a 100-million-year-old scale insect

(2015) Bo Wang et al.   eLife

Exceptionally Preserved 450-Million-Year-Old Ordovician Ostracods with Brood Care

(2014) David J. Siveter et al.   CURRENT BIOLOGY

How collective comparisons emerge without individual comparisons of the options

(2014) E. J. H. Robinson et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

Confidence Sharing: An Economic Strategy for Efficient Information Flows in Animal Groups

(2014) Amos Korman et al.   PLoS Computational Biology

Desert ants achieve reliable recruitment across noisy interactions

(2013) N. Razin et al.   Journal of the Royal Society Interface

Interactions with Combined Chemical Cues Inform Harvester Ant Foragers' Decisions to Leave the Nest in Search of Food

(2013) Michael J. Greene et al.   PLoS One

Ant colonies outperform individuals when a sensory discrimination task is difficult but not when it is easy

(2013) Takao Sasaki et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Backtracking behaviour in lost ants: an additional strategy in their navigational toolkit

(2013) A. Wystrach et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

Tracking Individuals Shows Spatial Fidelity Is a Key Regulator of Ant Social Organization

(2013) D. P. Mersch et al.   SCIENCE

Groups have a larger cognitive capacity than individuals

(2012) Takao Sasaki et al.   CURRENT BIOLOGY

Experience, corpulence and decision making in ant foraging

(2012) E. J. H. Robinson et al.   JOURNAL OF EXPERIMENTAL BIOLOGY

Complex brain and optic lobes in an early Cambrian arthropod

(2012) Xiaoya Ma et al.   NATURE

Emergence of group rationality from irrational individuals

(2011) T. Sasaki et al.   BEHAVIORAL ECOLOGY

Many Random Walks Are Faster Than One

(2011) NOGA ALON et al.   COMBINATORICS PROBABILITY & COMPUTING

Evolution of cuticular hydrocarbon diversity in ants

(2011) E. van WILGENBURG et al.   JOURNAL OF EVOLUTIONARY BIOLOGY

Color vision and learning in the monarch butterfly, Danaus plexippus (Nymphalidae)

(2011) D. Blackiston et al.   JOURNAL OF EXPERIMENTAL BIOLOGY

Knowledgeable individuals lead collective decisions in ants

(2011) N. Stroeymeyt et al.   JOURNAL OF EXPERIMENTAL BIOLOGY

The effect of individual variation on the structure and function of interaction networks in harvester ants

(2011) N. Pinter-Wollman et al.   Journal of the Royal Society Interface

Visual place learning in Drosophila melanogaster

(2011) Tyler A. Ofstad et al.   NATURE

Exploring the costs and benefits of social information use: an appraisal of current experimental evidence

(2011) G. Rieucau et al.   PHILOSOPHICAL TRANSACTIONS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

Time-Ordered Networks Reveal Limitations to Information Flow in Ant Colonies

(2011) Benjamin Blonder et al.   PLoS One

Ants in a Labyrinth: A Statistical Mechanics Approach to the Division of Labour

(2011) Thomas Owen Richardson et al.   PLoS One

A Simple Threshold Rule Is Sufficient to Explain Sophisticated Collective Decision-Making

(2011) Elva J. H. Robinson et al.   PLoS One

Correction for Ward et al., Fast and accurate decisions through collective vigilance in fish shoals

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Stop Signals Provide Cross Inhibition in Collective Decision-Making by Honeybee Swarms

(2011) T. D. Seeley et al.   SCIENCE

Termites (Isoptera): Their Phylogeny, Classification, and Rise to Ecological Dominance

(2010) Michael S. Engel et al.   AMERICAN MUSEUM NOVITATES

Allometric Scaling of Metabolism, Growth, and Activity in Whole Colonies of the Seed‐Harvester Ant Pogonomyrmex californicus

(2010) James S. Waters et al.   AMERICAN NATURALIST

A Negative Feedback Signal That Is Triggered by Peril Curbs Honey Bee Recruitment

(2010) James C. Nieh   CURRENT BIOLOGY

Use of radio-tagging to map spatial organization and social interactions in insects

(2010) M. Moreau et al.   JOURNAL OF EXPERIMENTAL BIOLOGY

Optimisation in a natural system: Argentine ants solve the Towers of Hanoi

(2010) C. R. Reid et al.   JOURNAL OF EXPERIMENTAL BIOLOGY

Energetic basis of colonial living in social insects

(2010) Chen Hou et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Encephalization is not a universal macroevolutionary phenomenon in mammals but is associated with sociality

(2010) S. Shultz et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Parasitoidism, not sociality, is associated with the evolution of elaborate mushroom bodies in the brains of hymenopteran insects

(2010) S. M. Farris et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

Spatial organization and division of labour in the bumblebee Bombus impatiens

(2009) Jennifer M. Jandt et al.   ANIMAL BEHAVIOUR

Animal Behaviour: Feeding the Superorganism

(2009) Spencer T. Behmer   CURRENT BIOLOGY

Are Bigger Brains Better?

(2009) Lars Chittka et al.   CURRENT BIOLOGY

Cooperative prey-retrieving in the ant Cataglyphis floricola: an unusual short-distance recruitment

(2009) F. Amor et al.   INSECTES SOCIAUX

A Review of Ant Cuticular Hydrocarbons

(2009) Stephen Martin et al.   JOURNAL OF CHEMICAL ECOLOGY

Flexible task allocation and the organization of work in ants

(2009) E. J. H. Robinson et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

Rationality in collective decision-making by ant colonies

(2009) S. C. Edwards et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

Radio tagging reveals the roles of corpulence, experience and social information in ant decision making

(2008) Elva J. H. Robinson et al.   BEHAVIORAL ECOLOGY AND SOCIOBIOLOGY

The mechanism of flight guidance in honeybee swarms: subtle guides or streaker bees?

(2008) K. M. Schultz et al.   JOURNAL OF EXPERIMENTAL BIOLOGY

Trail pheromones of ants

(2008) E. DAVID MORGAN   PHYSIOLOGICAL ENTOMOLOGY

Wired for Sex: The Neurobiology of Drosophila Mating Decisions

(2008) B. J. Dickson   SCIENCE

Collective cognition in animal groups

(2008) Iain D. Couzin   TRENDS IN COGNITIVE SCIENCES