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A multi-scale perspective into collective problem solving in ants

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Coordinator	WEIZMANN INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE Organization address address: HERZL STREET 234 city: REHOVOT postcode: 7610001 website: www.weizmann.ac.il contact info title: n.a. name: n.a. surname: n.a. function: n.a. email: n.a. telephone: n.a. fax: n.a.
Coordinator Country	Israel [IL]
Total cost	2˙000˙000 €
EC max contribution	2˙000˙000 € (100%)
Programme	1. H2020-EU.1.1. (EXCELLENT SCIENCE - European Research Council (ERC))
Code Call	ERC-2017-COG
Funding Scheme	ERC-COG
Starting year	2018
Duration (year-month-day)	from 2018-06-01 to 2023-05-31

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#	participants	country	role	EC contrib. [€]
1	WEIZMANN INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE WEIZMANN INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE Organization address address: HERZL STREET 234 city: REHOVOT postcode: 7610001 website: www.weizmann.ac.il contact info title: n.a. name: n.a. surname: n.a. function: n.a. email: n.a. telephone: n.a. fax: n.a.	IL (REHOVOT)	coordinator	2˙000˙000.00

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Project objective

Cognition improves an animal’s ability to tune its responses to environmental conditions. In group living animals, communication works to form a collective cognition that expands the group’s abilities beyond those of individuals. Despite much research, to date, there is little understanding of how collective cognition emerges within biological ensembles. A major obstacle towards such an understanding is the rarity of comprehensive multi-scale empirical data of these complex systems.

We have demonstrated cooperative load transport by ants to be an ideal system to study the emergence of cognition. Similar to other complex cognitive systems, the ants employ high levels of emergence to achieve efficient problem solving over a large range of scenarios. Unique to this system, is its extreme amenability to experimental measurement and manipulation where internal conflicts map to forces, abstract decision making is reflected in direction changes, and future planning manifested in pheromone trails. This allows for an unprecedentedly detailed, multi-scale empirical description of the moment-to-moment unfolding of sophisticated cognitive processes.

This proposal is aimed at materializing this potential to the full. We will examine the ants’ problem solving capabilities under a variety of environmental challenges. We will expose the underpinning rules on the different organizational scales, the flow of information between them, and their relative contributions to collective performance. This will allow for empirical comparisons between the ‘group’ and the ‘sum of its parts’ from which we will quantify the level of emergence in this system. Using the language of information, we will map the boundaries of this group’s collective cognition and relate them to the range of habitable environmental niches. Moreover, we will generalize these insights to formulate a new paradigm of emergence in biological groups opening new horizons in the study of cognitive processes in general.

Publications

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year	authors and title	journal	last update
2018	Ofer Feinerman, Itai Pinkoviezky, Aviram Gelblum, Ehud Fonio, Nir S. Gov The physics of cooperative transport in groups of ants published pages: 683-693, ISSN: 1745-2473, DOI: 10.1038/s41567-018-0107-y	Nature Physics 14/7	2020-03-05

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