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Individual learning phenotypes drive collective behavior.
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America - 28 Jul 2020
Cook Chelsea N, Lemanski Natalie J, Mosqueiro Thiago, Ozturk Cahit, Gadau Jürgen, Pinter-Wollman Noa, Smith Brian H
Abstract excerpt
Individual differences in learning can influence how animals respond to and communicate about their environment, which may nonlinearly shape how a social group accomplishes a collective task. There are few empirical examples of how differences in collective dynamics emerge from variation among individuals in cognition. Here, we use a naturally variable and heritable learning behavior called latent inhibition (LI)...
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