Accurate decisions in an uncertain world:Collective cognition increases true positives while decreasing false positives

Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences

Volumn 280, Issue 1756, 2013, Pages

  Wolf, Max ^a   Kurvers, Ralf H J M ^a   Ward, Ashley J W ^a,b   Krause, Stefan ^c   Krause, Jens ^a  

^a LEIBNIZ INSTITUTE OF FRESHWATER ECOLOGY AND INLAND FISHERIES   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY   (Australia)

^c LÜBECK UNIVERSITY OF APPLIED SCIENCES   (Germany)

Author keywords

Anti predation; Collective behaviour; Collective intelligence; Decision accuracy; Group decision making; Swarm intelligence

Indexed keywords

ACCURACY ASSESSMENT; ANIMAL; ANTIPREDATOR DEFENSE; AVOIDANCE REACTION; COGNITION; DECISION MAKING; GROUP SIZE; NUMERICAL MODEL; SWARMING; TRADE-OFF;

ANIMALIA;

EID: 84878348351     PISSN: 09628452     EISSN: 14712954     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rspb.2012.2777     Document Type: Article

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