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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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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. |
spellingShingle | Research Article Calvo Martín, Mariano Rodriguez Palacio, Esméralda Deneubourg, Jean-Louis Nicolis, Stamatios C. Emergence and retention of a collective memory in cockroaches |
title | Emergence and retention of a collective memory in cockroaches |
title_full | Emergence and retention of a collective memory in cockroaches |
title_fullStr | Emergence and retention of a collective memory in cockroaches |
title_full_unstemmed | Emergence and retention of a collective memory in cockroaches |
title_short | Emergence and retention of a collective memory in cockroaches |
title_sort | emergence and retention of a collective memory in cockroaches |
topic | Research Article |
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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