Individual versus collective cognition in social insects
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Individual versus collective cognition in social insects
The concerted responses of eusocial insects to environmental stimuli are often referred to as collective cognition at the level of the colony. To achieve collective cognition, a group can draw on two different sources: individual cognition and the connectivity between individuals. Computation in neural networks, for example, is attributed more to sophisticated communication schemes than to the ...
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عنوان ژورنال: Journal of Experimental Biology
سال: 2017
ISSN: 1477-9145,0022-0949
DOI: 10.1242/jeb.143891