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Collective cognition and behaviour

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‘Metacognition’ refers to thinking about thinking, and its function in collective human behaviour remains largely unknown. Using a multiplayer online game and agent-based modelling, Hawkins et al. found distinctive patterns of collective intelligence that only emerge when using metacognitive social inference skills.

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  1. Department of Psychology, University of Konstanz, Konstanz, Germany

    Wataru Toyokawa

  2. Centre for the Advanced Study of Collective Behaviour, University of Konstanz, Konstanz, Germany

    Wataru Toyokawa

  3. Center for Brain Science, RIKEN, Wako, Japan

    Wataru Toyokawa

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Toyokawa, W. Collective cognition and behaviour. Nat Hum Behav 7, 1612–1613 (2023). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41562-023-01683-w

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