Naomi Ehrich Leonard - Fast and Flexible Group Decision-Making (April 24, 2024)

A wide range of animals live and move in groups. Many animals do better in groups than alone when, for example, foraging for food, migrating and avoiding predators. A key to group success is social interaction. Less well understood is how a group with no centralized control is capable of the fast and flexible decision-making required to carry out its tasks in an environment with uncertainty, variability and dynamic change.
In this Presidential Lecture, Naomi Ehrich Leonard will present a model of group decision-making dynamics that reveals the fundamental importance of nonlinearity, feedback and social interaction structure. The model provides new insights into fast and flexible decision-making: how indecision can be broken as fast as it becomes costly and how sensitivity to stimuli can be tuned as the context and environment change. More details: www.simonsfoun...

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