GROUPCOG · From individual cognition to collective intelligence
„Хоризонт 2020“ — Действия „Мария Склодовска-Кюри“
- Период
- 2016-04-01 → 2018-03-31
- Финансиране от ЕС
- 195 455 €
- Участници
- 1
- Схема
- MSCA-IF-EF-ST
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Накратко на български
Колективният интелект се изучава чрез сравнение между решенията на отделни гълъби и тези на групи при изпълнение на пространствени задачи. Това помага да се разбере кога групите вземат по-добри или по-лоши решения от индивидите.
Кратко обяснение, генерирано от езиков модел по текста на CORDIS. Оригиналът е по-долу.
Резултати накратко
From individual cognition to collective intelligence
Collective decision-making has been the subject of scientific study for over a century yet we still know little about the circumstances under which groups make better (or indeed worse) decisions than individuals. My postdoctoral research directly addressed this longstanding question, using pigeon homing as a model system. I compared the cognitive abilities of individuals and groups by testing them on the same spatio-cognitive tasks. To investigate the emergence of collective cognition – both as a one-off occurrence and as a cumulative process over time – cutting-edge GPS devices provided high-resolution individual spatiotemporal data, allowing me to create detailed individual-based models that also build on a large body of existing knowledge about pigeons’ individual cognitive abilities.
Текст от CORDIS, на английски · Данни: CORDIS, © Европейски съюз
Цел на проекта
In many taxa, individuals form groups that collectively process information and make decisions. Through pooling information, these groups can theoretically achieve better decisions than solitary agents. However, it has become increasingly clear that understanding successes and failures of collective decision-making requires a detailed understanding of individual cognitive abilities and of information transfer among group members. I would like to build on my background in social insect collective behavior to investigate a longstanding question in complex systems science: when and how does collective intelligence emerge from individual cognition? I propose to elucidate this issue using novel experiments with homing pigeons–a species that has numerous advantages as a model system. First, pigeons can process information both individually and collectively. When flying alone, each pigeon establishes idiosyncratic habitual routes over time, based on memorized chains of landscape cues. Flocks of pigeons are also collectively able to develop distinctive routes. Thus, I can directly compare the cognitive performance of individuals and groups by giving them the same spatio-cognitive tasks. Second, as pigeons have been among the most important subjects in laboratory experiments on animal cognition, a wealth of data is available on pigeons’ individual cognition. Finally, cutting-edge GPS devices provide high-resolution spatiotemporal data, allowing me to create and validate highly detailed individual-based models. My results will be applicable to multiple research fields, including optimal decision-making theory and collective robotics.
Оригинален текст от CORDIS (на английски).
Участници
- THE CHANCELLOR, MASTERS AND SCHOLARS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD · OxfordКоординаторОбединеното кралство
Връзки
Данни: CORDIS, © Европейски съюз