Search Results - "Faria, Jolyon J."
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Emergent Sensing of Complex Environments by Mobile Animal Groups
Published in Science (American Association for the Advancement of Science) (01-02-2013)“…The capacity for groups to exhibit collective intelligence is an often-cited advantage of group living. Previous studies have shown that social organisms…”
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Collective behavior in road crossing pedestrians: the role of social information
Published in Behavioral ecology (01-11-2010)“…Social information use is common in a wide range of group-living animals, notably in humans. We investigated social information use by pedestrians in a…”
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How perceived threat increases synchronization in collectively moving animal groups
Published in Proceedings of the Royal Society. B, Biological sciences (22-10-2010)“…Nature is rich with many different examples of the cohesive motion of animals. Previous attempts to model collective motion have primarily focused on group…”
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Leadership and social information use in human crowds
Published in Animal behaviour (01-04-2010)“…One of the big challenges for group-living animals is to find out who in a group has pertinent information (regarding food or predators) at any moment in time,…”
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Collective cognition in humans: groups outperform their best members in a sentence reconstruction task
Published in PloS one (17-10-2013)“…Group-living is widespread among animals and one of the major advantages of group-living is the ability of groups to solve cognitive problems that exceed…”
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Behavioural trait assortment in a social network: patterns and implications
Published in Behavioral ecology and sociobiology (01-08-2009)“…The social fine structure of a population plays a central role in ecological and evolutionary processes. Whilst many studies have investigated how…”
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Swarm intelligence in humans: diversity can trump ability
Published in Animal behaviour (01-05-2011)“…We identify some of the possibilities and limitations of human swarm intelligence (SI) using the response of the public to two types of cognitive problems…”
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novel method for investigating the collective behaviour of fish: introducing ‘Robofish
Published in Behavioral ecology and sociobiology (01-08-2010)“…Collective animal behaviour has attracted much attention recently, but cause-and-effect within interaction sequences has often been difficult to establish. To…”
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Navigation in human crowds; testing the many-wrongs principle
Published in Animal behaviour (01-09-2009)“…The ‘many-wrongs principle’ predicts that animal group cohesion can cause groups to navigate more accurately than singletons. Recent theoretical work using…”
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Collective Cognition in Humans: Groups Outperform Their Best Members in a Sentence Reconstruction Task: e77943
Published in PloS one (01-10-2013)“…Group-living is widespread among animals and one of the major advantages of group-living is the ability of groups to solve cognitive problems that exceed…”
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