On optimal decision-making in brains and social insect colonies.

Journal article

The problem of how to compromise between speed and accuracy in decision-making faces organisms at many levels of biological complexity. Striking parallels are evident between decision-making in primate brains and collective decision-making in social insect colonies: in both systems, separate populations accumulate evidence for alternative choices; when one population reaches a threshold, a decision is made for the corresponding alternative, and this threshold may be varied to compromise betwe...

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Authors: Marshall, J; Bogacz, R; Dornhaus, A; Planqué, R; Kovacs, T

• Publication status: Published
• Journal: Journal of the Royal Society, Interface / the Royal Society
• Volume: 6
• Issue: 40
• Pages: 1065-1074
• Publication date: 2009-11-01
• DOI: 10.1098/rsif.2008.0511
• EISSN: 1742-5662
• ISSN: 1742-5689
• Language: English
• Keywords: Decision Making; Models, Theoretical; Social Behavior; Bees; Ants; Time Factors; Primates; Cerebral Cortex; Animals