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JOURNAL OF EXPERIMENTAL BIOLOGY
卷 220, 期 1, 页码 73-82出版社
COMPANY BIOLOGISTS LTD
DOI: 10.1242/jeb.143891
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Communication patterns; Insect colony; Emergence; Group-level processes
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- European Research Council (ERC) under the European Union's Horizon 2020 research and innovation program [648032]
- Israel Science Foundation [833/15]
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 complexity of individual neurons. The case of social insects, however, can be expected to differ. This is because individual insects are cognitively capable units that are often able to process information that is directly relevant at the level of the colony. Furthermore, involved communication patterns seem difficult to implement in a group of insects as they lack a clear network structure. This review discusses links between the cognition of an individual insect and that of the colony. We provide examples for collective cognition whose sources span the full spectrum between amplification of individual insect cognition and emergent group-level processes.
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