Human group coordination in a sensorimotor task with neuron-like decision-making.

ABSTRACT: The formation of cooperative groups of agents with limited information-processing capabilities to solve complex problems together is a fundamental building principle that cuts through multiple scales in biology from groups of cells to groups of humans. Here, we study an experimental paradigm where a group of humans is joined together to solve a common sensorimotor task that cannot be achieved by a single agent but relies on the cooperation of the group. In particular, each human acts as a neuron-like binary decision-maker that determines in each moment of time whether to be active or not. Inspired by the population vector method for movement decoding, each neuron-like decision-maker is assigned a preferred movement direction that the decision-maker is ignorant about. From the population ve

SUBMITTER: Schmid G 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7237467 | biostudies-literature | 2020 May

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature