Search is a ubiquitous property of life. Although diverse domains have worked on search
problems largely in isolation, recent trends across disciplines indicate that the formal …

There are well-understood psychological limits on our capacity to process information. As
information proliferation—the consumption and sharing of information—increases through …

Social groups can be remarkably smart and knowledgeable when their averaged
judgements are compared with the judgements of individuals. Already Galton [Galton F …

Cognition in work teams has been predominantly understood and explained in terms of
shared cognition with a focus on the similarity of static knowledge structures across …

The widespread availability and use of social media has drastically altered disaster
response in the last few years. Although a considerable amount of empirical research …

Collective intelligence refers to the ability of groups to outperform individual decision makers
when solving complex cognitive problems. Despite its potential to revolutionize decision …

In this paper, we approach the idea of group cognition from the perspective of the “extended
mind” thesis, as a special case of the more general claim that systems larger than the …

A ubiquitous type of collective behavior and decision-making is the coordinated motion of
bird flocks, fish schools, and human crowds. Collective decisions to move in the same …

To accept that cognition is embodied is to question many of the beliefs traditionally held by
cognitive scientists. One key question regards the localization of cognitive faculties. Here we …

All social processes fundamentally involve change in time: Judgments materialize quickly
over milliseconds or seconds, conversations flow over minutes, and relationships evolve …