Psychophysical Laws and the Superorganism
- Submitting institution
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The University of Sheffield
- Unit of assessment
- 11 - Computer Science and Informatics
- Output identifier
- 2590
- Type
- D - Journal article
- DOI
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10.1038/s41598-018-22616-y
- Title of journal
- Scientific Reports
- Article number
- 4387
- First page
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- Volume
- 8
- Issue
- 1
- ISSN
- 2045-2322
- Open access status
- Compliant
- Month of publication
- March
- Year of publication
- 2018
- URL
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- Supplementary information
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- Output has been delayed by COVID-19
- No
- COVID-19 affected output statement
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- Forensic science
- No
- Criminology
- No
- Interdisciplinary
- No
- Number of additional authors
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3
- Research group(s)
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B - Complex Systems Modelling
- Citation count
- 12
- Proposed double-weighted
- No
- Reserve for an output with double weighting
- No
- Additional information
- This paper is the first to demonstrate how a biologically-plausible model of collective decision-making, house-hunting by honeybees, can exhibit decision-making laws usually associated with human behaviour. It points towards fundamental information-processing laws governing systems that integrate information in order to make decisions. The paper received extensive international media coverage online, in print, and in broadcast, including television and radio e.g. BBC Wildlife magazine https://www.discoverwildlife.com/news/why-are-honeybees-like-the-human-brain/, Newsweek https://www.newsweek.com/bee-colonies-behave-human-brain-study-finds-863576, Daily Mail https://www.dailymail.co.uk/wires/pa/article-5549361/Honeybee-colonies-mirror-human-brain-say-scientists.html.
- Author contribution statement
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- Non-English
- No
- English abstract
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