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| − | ''Effect of Experience on Collective Decision-Making and Social Organization'' <br> | + | <p style="margin-left:40px">''Effect of Experience on Collective Decision-Making and Social Organization'' <br> |
| − | Tovah Kashetsky, Grant Doering, and Reuven Dukas<br> | + | Tovah Kashetsky, Grant Doering, and Reuven Dukas<br></p> |
| − | <p style="margin-left:40px"> Expertise built from experience allows individuals to perform significantly better than novices on a complex task. Social groups can also demonstrate expertise. Within social groups, collective decision-making is crucial for maintaining cohesion, but it is unknown whether a group’s collective decision-making skills can improve with experience. To investigate this, we tested whether repeated experience with choosing between multiple nests during emigration in house-hunting ants (Temnothorax ambiguus) would improve the speed and efficiency with which colonies reach consensus. We hypothesize that experience with decision-making would improve colony performance on future decisions. We first ran preliminary experiments to quantify nest features that colonies prefer in order to construct artificial nests of varying attractiveness. We will provide 20 colonies experience with a choice between a good- and poor-quality nest during emigration, and 20 colonies with no choice during emigration (a single nest). Lastly, we will test all colonies to decide between a good- and poor-quality nest during a final emigration. So far, we found that colonies with experience decision-making do indeed appear to be faster and more efficient at decisions than colonies without experience decision-making. We will also run a social network analysis on 3 colonies from both groups to examine temporal changes in social organization. This will provide us with a mechanistic explanation for how improvements in collective decision-making arise from the actions of individuals. Studying decision-making in ants will allow us to achieve an improved understanding of the development and mechanisms behind expertise.</p> | + | <p style="margin-left:40px;text-indent:40px"> Expertise built from experience allows individuals to perform significantly better than novices on a complex task. Social groups can also demonstrate expertise. Within social groups, collective decision-making is crucial for maintaining cohesion, but it is unknown whether a group’s collective decision-making skills can improve with experience. To investigate this, we tested whether repeated experience with choosing between multiple nests during emigration in house-hunting ants (Temnothorax ambiguus) would improve the speed and efficiency with which colonies reach consensus. We hypothesize that experience with decision-making would improve colony performance on future decisions. We first ran preliminary experiments to quantify nest features that colonies prefer in order to construct artificial nests of varying attractiveness. We will provide 20 colonies experience with a choice between a good- and poor-quality nest during emigration, and 20 colonies with no choice during emigration (a single nest). Lastly, we will test all colonies to decide between a good- and poor-quality nest during a final emigration. So far, we found that colonies with experience decision-making do indeed appear to be faster and more efficient at decisions than colonies without experience decision-making. We will also run a social network analysis on 3 colonies from both groups to examine temporal changes in social organization. This will provide us with a mechanistic explanation for how improvements in collective decision-making arise from the actions of individuals. Studying decision-making in ants will allow us to achieve an improved understanding of the development and mechanisms behind expertise.</p> |
Revision as of 15:34, 2 February 2021
Graduate Research Day - February 11, 2021
Graduate Research Day 2021 will be held on the Airmeet.com platform.
The link to the conference is:
Schedule
9:30-10:05 AM Keynote 1: Dr. Mayu Nishimura
- Title
10:05-10:50 AM Symposium 1
Tovah Kashetsky
Effect of Experience on Collective Decision-Making and Social Organization
Tovah Kashetsky, Grant Doering, and Reuven Dukas
Expertise built from experience allows individuals to perform significantly better than novices on a complex task. Social groups can also demonstrate expertise. Within social groups, collective decision-making is crucial for maintaining cohesion, but it is unknown whether a group’s collective decision-making skills can improve with experience. To investigate this, we tested whether repeated experience with choosing between multiple nests during emigration in house-hunting ants (Temnothorax ambiguus) would improve the speed and efficiency with which colonies reach consensus. We hypothesize that experience with decision-making would improve colony performance on future decisions. We first ran preliminary experiments to quantify nest features that colonies prefer in order to construct artificial nests of varying attractiveness. We will provide 20 colonies experience with a choice between a good- and poor-quality nest during emigration, and 20 colonies with no choice during emigration (a single nest). Lastly, we will test all colonies to decide between a good- and poor-quality nest during a final emigration. So far, we found that colonies with experience decision-making do indeed appear to be faster and more efficient at decisions than colonies without experience decision-making. We will also run a social network analysis on 3 colonies from both groups to examine temporal changes in social organization. This will provide us with a mechanistic explanation for how improvements in collective decision-making arise from the actions of individuals. Studying decision-making in ants will allow us to achieve an improved understanding of the development and mechanisms behind expertise.
Hanna Haponenko
Depth-specific IOR effect when attention shifts from far to near space relative to viewer
Joanna Spyra
Memory for global musical structures: Dissecting musical features for their contribution to memory for nonadjacent tonal centers
Title
Presenting author, author 2, author 3...
Abstract goes here and so on....
10:50–11:00 AM Break 1
11:00-11:45 AM Symposium 2
Emily Wood
- Body sway reflects nonverbal communication in a string quartet learning to play unfamiliar music together
Wei (Vivian) Fang
- Dominance pulls faces closer
Hannah Anderson
- Variation and correlations of behavioral lateralization
1:00-2:00 PM Symposium 3
- Leigh Greenberg
- Jesse Pazdera
- Brendan McEwen
- Elizabeth Phillips
2:00 - 2:45 PM Poster Session
- Rachael Finnerty
- Cindy Tran
- Seyedbehrad Dehnadi
- Konrad Swierczek
- Emma Marsden
- Carly McIntyre-Wood
- Peter Najdzionek
- Maya Flannery
- Jiali Song
3:00 - 3:30 PM Lightning Talks
- Vidhi Patel
- Lucas Klein
- Jamie Cochrane
- Janice Yan
- James Mirabelli
Prizes
Top three:
- Oral Presentation: $75
- Poster Presentation: $75
- Lightning Talks: $50
Winners to be announced...