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Emergence and retention of a collective memory in cockroaches

The stability of collective decisions-making in social systems is crucial as it can lead to counterintuitive phenomena such as collective memories, where an initial choice is challenged by environmental changes. Many social species face the challenge to perform collective decisions under variable co...

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Autores principales: Calvo Martín, Mariano, Rodriguez Palacio, Esméralda, Deneubourg, Jean-Louis, Nicolis, Stamatios C.
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Public Library of Science 2023
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10325095/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/37410767
http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0287845
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author Calvo Martín, Mariano
Rodriguez Palacio, Esméralda
Deneubourg, Jean-Louis
Nicolis, Stamatios C.
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description The stability of collective decisions-making in social systems is crucial as it can lead to counterintuitive phenomena such as collective memories, where an initial choice is challenged by environmental changes. Many social species face the challenge to perform collective decisions under variable conditions. In this study, we focused on situations where isolated individuals and groups of the American cockroach (Periplaneta americana) had to choose between two shelters with different luminosities that were inverted during the experiment. The darker shelter was initially preferred, but only groups that reached a consensus within that shelter maintain their choice after the light inversion, while isolated individuals and small groups lacked site fidelity. Our mathematical model, incorporating deterministic and probabilistic elements, sheds light on the significance interactions and their stochasticity in the emergence and retention of a collective memory.
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spelling pubmed-103250952023-07-07 Emergence and retention of a collective memory in cockroaches Calvo Martín, Mariano Rodriguez Palacio, Esméralda Deneubourg, Jean-Louis Nicolis, Stamatios C. PLoS One Research Article The stability of collective decisions-making in social systems is crucial as it can lead to counterintuitive phenomena such as collective memories, where an initial choice is challenged by environmental changes. Many social species face the challenge to perform collective decisions under variable conditions. In this study, we focused on situations where isolated individuals and groups of the American cockroach (Periplaneta americana) had to choose between two shelters with different luminosities that were inverted during the experiment. The darker shelter was initially preferred, but only groups that reached a consensus within that shelter maintain their choice after the light inversion, while isolated individuals and small groups lacked site fidelity. Our mathematical model, incorporating deterministic and probabilistic elements, sheds light on the significance interactions and their stochasticity in the emergence and retention of a collective memory. Public Library of Science 2023-07-06 /pmc/articles/PMC10325095/ /pubmed/37410767 http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0287845 Text en © 2023 Martín et al https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) , which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.
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Emergence and retention of a collective memory in cockroaches
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title_short Emergence and retention of a collective memory in cockroaches
title_sort emergence and retention of a collective memory in cockroaches
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10325095/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/37410767
http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0287845
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