ArticleJournal of the Royal Society, Interface2022
Individual exploration and selective social learning: balancing exploration-exploitation trade-offs in collective foraging.
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- A demographic theory of similarity-biased social learning.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2026Article
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- Adaptive mechanisms of social and asocial learning in immersive collective foraging.Nature communications · 2025Article
- Consistent long-distance foraging flights across years and seasons at colony level in a neotropical bat.Biology letters · 2024Article
- A social foraging trade-off in echolocating bats reveals that they benefit from some conspecifics but are impaired when many are around.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2024Article
- Visual social information use in collective foraging.PLoS computational biology · 2024Article
- Collective incentives reduce over-exploitation of social information in unconstrained human groups.Nature communications · 2024Article
- Interaction among participants in a collective intelligence experiment: an emotional approach.Frontiers in psychology · 2024Article
- Group Coordination Catalyzes Individual and Cultural Intelligence.Open mind : discoveries in cognitive science · 2024Article
- Reduced effects of social feedback on learning in Turner syndrome.Scientific reports · 2023Article
- Evolutionary emergence of collective intelligence in large groups of students.Frontiers in psychology · 2022Article
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Abstract
Search requires balancing exploring for more options and exploiting the ones previously found. Individuals foraging in a group face another trade-off: whether to engage in social learning to exploit the solutions found by others or to solitarily search for unexplored solutions. Social learning can better exploit learned information and decrease the costs of finding new resources, but excessive social learning can lead to over-exploitation and too little exploration for new solutions. We study how these two trade-offs interact to influence search efficiency in a model of collective foraging under conditions of varying resource abundance, resource density and group size. We modelled individual search strategies as Lévy walks, where a power-law exponent (
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