Insights about the common generative rule underlying an information foraging task can be facilitated via collective search.

ABSTRACT: Social learning is beneficial for efficient information search in unfamiliar environments ("within-task" learning). In the real world, however, possible search spaces are often so large that decision makers are incapable of covering all options, even if they pool their information collectively. One strategy to handle such overload is developing generalizable knowledge that extends to multiple related environments ("across-task" learning). However, it is unknown whether and how social information may facilitate such across-task learning. Here, we investigated participants' social learning processes across multiple laboratory foraging sessions in spatially correlated reward landscapes that were generated according to a common rule. The results showed that paired participants were able to imp

SUBMITTER: Naito A 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9110753 | biostudies-literature | 2022 May

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature