Timing decisions as the next frontier for collective intelligence - ScienceDirect

The fitness of an organism can be strongly affected by the decisions that it makes throughout its lifetime. These decisions may be spatial (deciding where to go), temporal (deciding when to perform an action), or a mixture thereof. How organisms make spatial or temporal decisions should involve different mechanisms because of fundamental differences between the two. For example, time is irreversible, while animals can traverse space more freely. Making decisions together as a group can improve the accuracy of decisions (a form of collective intelligence). However, to date, almost all existing research has been on collective spatial decisions and, as a result, it is through this spatial lens that our intuition of collective decisions has developed. Understanding how individuals in groups make timing decisions is particularly relevant in a changing climate, where both the optimal time to perform actions and the cues used to time the action are changing. Studying collective intelligen

The fitness of an organism can be strongly affected by the decisions that it makes throughout its lifetime. These decisions may be spatial (deciding where to go), temporal (deciding when to perform an action), or a mixture thereof. How organisms make spatial or temporal decisions should involve different mechanisms because of fundamental differences between the two. For example, time is irreversible, while animals can traverse space more freely. Making decisions together as a group can improve the accuracy of decisions (a form of collective intelligence). However, to date, almost all existing