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    "pk": 25581,
    "title": "Emergent Collective Sensing in Human Groups",
    "subtitle": null,
    "abstract": "Despite its importance, human collective intelligence remains\nenigmatic. We know what features are predictive of collective\nintelligence in human groups, but we do not understand\nthe specific mechanisms that lead to the emergence of this distributed\ninformation processing ability. In contrast, there is\na well-developed literature of experiments that have exposed\nthe mechanisms of collective intelligence in nonhuman animal\nspecies. We adapt a recent experiment designed to study\ncollective sensing in groups of fish in order to better understand\nthe mechanisms that may underly the emergence of collective\nintelligence in human groups. We find that humans in\nour experiments act at a high level like fish but with two additional\nbehaviors: independent exploration and targeted copying.\nThese distinctively human activities may partially explain\nthe emergence of collective sensing in our task environment at\ngroup sizes and on times scales orders of magnitudes smaller\nthan were observed in fish.",
    "language": "eng",
    "license": {
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        "short_name": "",
        "text": null,
        "url": ""
    },
    "keywords": [
        {
            "word": "collective intelligence; distributed cognition; social\ncognition; social computation; online experiments"
        }
    ],
    "section": "Papers",
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    "remote_url": "https://escholarship.org/uc/item/0c03h134",
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        {
            "first_name": "Peter",
            "middle_name": "M",
            "last_name": "Kraft",
            "name_suffix": "",
            "institution": "MIT Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory",
            "department": ""
        },
        {
            "first_name": "Robert",
            "middle_name": "X.D.",
            "last_name": "Hawkins",
            "name_suffix": "",
            "institution": "Stanford Department of Psychology",
            "department": ""
        },
        {
            "first_name": "Alex",
            "middle_name": "\"Sandy\"",
            "last_name": "Pentland",
            "name_suffix": "",
            "institution": "MIT Media Lab",
            "department": ""
        },
        {
            "first_name": "Noah",
            "middle_name": "D",
            "last_name": "Goodman",
            "name_suffix": "",
            "institution": "Stanford Department of Psychology",
            "department": ""
        },
        {
            "first_name": "Joshua",
            "middle_name": "B",
            "last_name": "Tenenbaum",
            "name_suffix": "",
            "institution": "MIT Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory",
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        }
    ],
    "date_submitted": null,
    "date_accepted": null,
    "date_published": "2015-01-01T18:00:00Z",
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