Publications

2023

Claudia Winklmayr, Albert B. Kao, Joseph B. Bak-Coleman, Pawel Romanczuk (2023) Collective decision strategies in the presence of spatio-temporal correlations. Collective Intelligence 2:1-13.

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Mirta Galesic, Daniel Barkoczi, Andrew M. Berdahl, Dora Biro, Giuseppe Carbone, Ilaria Giannoccaro, Robert L. Goldstone, Cleotilde Gonzalez, Anne Kandler, Albert B. Kao, Rachel Kendal, Michelle Kline, Eun Lee, Giovanni Francesco Massari, Alex Mesoudi, Henrik Olsson, Niccolo Pescetelli, Sabina J. Sloman, Paul E. Smaldino, Daniel L. Stein (2023). Beyond collective intelligence: Collective adaptationJournal of the Royal Society Interface 20:20220736.

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2021

Joseph B. Bak-Coleman, Mark Alfano, Wolfram Barfuss, Carl T. Bergstrom, Miguel A. Centeno, Iain D. Couzin, Jonathan F. Donges, Mirta Galesic, Andrew S. Gersick, Jennifer Jacquet, Albert B. Kao, Rachel E. Moran, Pawel Romanczuk, Daniel I. Rubenstein, Kaia J. Tombak, Jay J. Van Bavel, Elke U. Weber (2021) Stewardship of global collective behavior. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 118:e2025764118.

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Matthew J. Lutz, Chris R. Reid, Christopher J. Lustri, Albert B. Kao, Simon Garnier, Iain D. Couzin (2021). Individual error correction drives responsive self-assembly of army ant scaffolds. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 118:e2013741118.

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2020

Claudia Winklmayr, Albert B. Kao, Joseph B. Bak-Coleman, Pawel Romanczuk (2020) The wisdom of stalemates: consensus and clustering as filtering mechanisms for improving collective accuracy. Proceedings of the Royal Society B 287:20201802.

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Ana Sofia Guerra, Albert B. Kao, Douglas J. McCauley, Andrew M. Berdahl (2020). Fisheries-induced selection against schooling behaviour in marine fishes. Proceedings of the Royal Society B 287:20201752.

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2019

Albert B. Kao, Iain D. Couzin (2019) Modular structure within groups causes information loss but can improve decision accuracy. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B 374:20180378.

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2018

Tom Alisch, James D. Crall, Albert B. Kao, Dave Zucker, Benjamin L. de Bivort (2018) MAPLE (modular automated platform for large-scale experiments), a robot for integrated organism-handling and phenotyping. eLife 7:e37166.

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Andrew M. Berdahl, Albert B. Kao, Andrea Flack, Peter A. H. Westley, Edward A. Codling, Iain D. Couzin, Anthony I. Dell, Dora Biro (2018). Collective animal navigation and migratory culture: from theoretical models to empirical evidence. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B 373:20170009.

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Albert B. Kao, Andrew M. Berdahl, Andrew T. Hartnett, Matthew J. Lutz, Joseph B. Bak-Coleman, Christos C. Ioannou, Xingli Giam, Iain D. Couzin (2018). Counteracting estimation bias and social influence to improve the wisdom of crowds. Journal of the Royal Society Interface 15:20180130.

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2017

Jason M. Graham, Albert B. Kao, Dylana A. Wilhelm, Simon Garnier (2017) Optimal construction of army ant living bridges. Journal of Theoretical Biology 435:184-198.

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2015

Chris R. Reid, Matthew J. Lutz, Scott Powell, Albert B. Kao, Iain D. Couzin, Simon Garnier (2015) Army ants dynamically adjust living bridges in response to a cost–benefit trade-off. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 112:15113-15118.

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2014

Albert B. Kao, Noam Miller, Colin Torney, Andrew Hartnett, Iain D. Couzin (2014) Collective learning and optimal consensus decisions in social animal groups. PLoS Computational Biology 10:e1003762.

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Albert B. Kao, Iain D. Couzin (2014). Decision accuracy in complex environments is often maximized by small group sizes. Proceedings of the Royal Society B 281:20133305.

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2013

Ariana Strandburg-Peshkin, Colin R. Twomey, Nikolai W. F. Bode, Albert B. Kao, Yael Katz, Christos C. Ioannou, Sara B. Rosenthal, Colin J. Torney, Hai Shan Wu, Simon A. Levin, Iain D. Couzin (2013) Visual sensory networks and effective information transfer in animal groups. Current Biology 23:R709-R711.

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2007

Daniel T. Swain, Naomi Ehrich Leonard, Iain D. Couzin, Albert Kao, Rodolphe J. Sepulchre (2007) Alternating spatial patterns for coordinated group motion. 2007 46th IEEE Conference on Decision and Control 2925-2930.

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Christopher V. Gabel, Harrison Gabel, Dmitri Pavlichin, Albert Kao, Damon A. Clark, Aravinthan D. T. Samuel (2007). Neural circuits mediate electrosensory behavior in Caenorhabditis elegans. The Journal of Neuroscience 27:7586-7596.

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