Both information and social cohesion determine collective decisions in animal groups

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

Volumn 110, Issue 13, 2013, Pages 5263-5268

  Miller, Noam ^a   Garnier, Simon ^a   Hartnett, Andrew T ^a   Couzin, Iain D ^a  

^a PRINCETON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Bayesian; Behaviour; Collective intelligence; Golden shiner

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; BAYESIAN LEARNING; CONTROLLED STUDY; DECISION MAKING; FISH; GROUP DYNAMICS; NONHUMAN; PERSONAL EXPERIENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SOCIAL ADAPTATION; TEAMWORK;

ANIMALS; BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; COOPERATIVE BEHAVIOR; CYPRINIDAE; DECISION MAKING; FEMALE; MALE;

ANIMALIA; NOTROPIS CHRYSOLEUCAS;

EID: 84875497767     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: 10916490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1217513110     Document Type: Article

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