Forum:Swarm Cognition and Neuroscience

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The goal of Swarm Cognition research is explaining cognitive behaviour as a distributed process wherein cognitive units interact and self-organise. For example, the Usher-McClelland model represents neural decision-making using leaky competing accumulators, exhibiting marked similarities with models of social insects' collective decision-making [1] [2]. In this perspective, Swarm Cognition can be seen as an alternative epistemological perspective on cognition that may help to bridge the still existing gap between behavioural and neuroscientific explanations of cognitive phenomena (see, for example, Marshall and Franks, 2009[3])

Is Swarm Cognition a truly innovative and complementary perspective to the study of cognition and behaviour? Does Swarm Cognition provide new methodological alternatives to the study of cognition and behaviour?

References

  1. ↑ Marshall, J.A.R., Bogacz, R., Dornhaus, A., Planqué, R., Kovacs, T., Franks, N.R.: On optimal decision-making in brains and social insect colonies. Journal of the Royal Society Interface (2009) In press
  2. ↑ Passino, K., Seeley, T.D., Visscher, P.K.: Swarm cognition in honey bees. Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology (2008) 62, 401-414
  3. ↑ Marshall, J.A.R., Franks, N.R.: Colony-level cognition. Current Biology (2009) 19, 395-396
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