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| Title |
Ant groups optimally amplify the effect of transiently informed individuals
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| Published in |
Nature Communications, July 2015
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| DOI | 10.1038/ncomms8729 |
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| Authors |
Aviram Gelblum, Itai Pinkoviezky, Ehud Fonio, Abhijit Ghosh, Nir Gov, Ofer Feinerman |
| Abstract |
To cooperatively transport a large load, it is important that carriers conform in their efforts and align their forces. A downside of behavioural conformism is that it may decrease the group's responsiveness to external information. Combining experiment and theory, we show how ants optimize collective transport. On the single-ant scale, optimization stems from decision rules that balance individuality and compliance. Macroscopically, these rules poise the system at the transition between random walk and ballistic motion where the collective response to the steering of a single informed ant is maximized. We relate this peak in response to the divergence of susceptibility at a phase transition. Our theoretical models predict that the ant-load system can be transitioned through the critical point of this mesoscopic system by varying its size; we present experiments supporting these predictions. Our findings show that efficient group-level processes can arise from transient amplification of individual-based knowledge. |
X Demographics
The data shown below were collected from the profiles of 1,238 X users who shared this research output. Click here to find out more about how the information was compiled.
Geographical breakdown
| Country | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Japan | 334 | 27% |
| United States | 17 | 1% |
| United Kingdom | 9 | <1% |
| China | 8 | <1% |
| Italy | 5 | <1% |
| Austria | 4 | <1% |
| France | 3 | <1% |
| Spain | 3 | <1% |
| Mexico | 3 | <1% |
| Other | 30 | 2% |
| Unknown | 822 | 66% |
Demographic breakdown
| Type | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Members of the public | 1202 | 97% |
| Scientists | 27 | 2% |
| Practitioners (doctors, other healthcare professionals) | 5 | <1% |
| Science communicators (journalists, bloggers, editors) | 3 | <1% |
| Unknown | 1 | <1% |
Mendeley readers
The data shown below were compiled from readership statistics for 284 Mendeley readers of this research output. Click here to see the associated Mendeley record.
Geographical breakdown
| Country | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| United States | 4 | 1% |
| France | 3 | 1% |
| Brazil | 2 | <1% |
| Netherlands | 1 | <1% |
| Germany | 1 | <1% |
| Austria | 1 | <1% |
| United Kingdom | 1 | <1% |
| Luxembourg | 1 | <1% |
| Unknown | 270 | 95% |
Demographic breakdown
| Readers by professional status | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Student > Ph. D. Student | 64 | 23% |
| Researcher | 42 | 15% |
| Student > Master | 40 | 14% |
| Student > Bachelor | 30 | 11% |
| Professor > Associate Professor | 17 | 6% |
| Other | 57 | 20% |
| Unknown | 34 | 12% |
| Readers by discipline | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Agricultural and Biological Sciences | 91 | 32% |
| Physics and Astronomy | 38 | 13% |
| Engineering | 30 | 11% |
| Computer Science | 27 | 10% |
| Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology | 12 | 4% |
| Other | 41 | 14% |
| Unknown | 45 | 16% |
Attention Score in Context
This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 697. This is our high-level measure of the quality and quantity of online attention that it has received. This Attention Score, as well as the ranking and number of research outputs shown below, was calculated when the research output was last mentioned on 24 August 2022.
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#553
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