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  • Ecology
  • Behavioral Ecology
  • Computational Biology

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  • Collective dynamics arise from individual decisions, but the link to real-world outcomes is unclear.
  • Understanding information use (personal vs. social) is crucial for collective behavior.
  • Agent-based models offer a way to explore these complex interactions.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To mechanistically link individual decision-making to collective foraging outcomes.
  • To investigate the trade-off between using personal and social information.
  • To explore the impact of environmental and physical constraints on collective performance.

Main Methods:

  • Developed a spatially-explicit, agent-based model simulating individual evidence accumulation.
  • Integrated personal (internal) and social (visual) cues with particle-based movement.
  • Simulated collective foraging in both idealized and constrained environments.

Main Results:

  • The model reproduced established findings under idealized conditions, explaining bottom-up emergence.
  • Optimal collective performance depended on environmental structure: strong social influence in clustered, individualistic search in uniform environments.
  • Physical and perceptual constraints significantly altered collective dynamics, sometimes preventing maladaptive herding.

Conclusions:

  • Reveals mechanisms connecting individual cognition to collective foraging in humans and animals.
  • Demonstrates how environmental context and constraints modulate information use strategies.
  • Provides a framework for designing decentralized robotic systems for collective tasks.