Task dynamics define the contextual emergence of human corralling behaviors

Nalepka, Patrick and Silva, Paula L. and Kallen, Rachel W. and Shockley, Kevin and Chemero, Anthony and Saltzman, Elliot and Richardson, Michael J. and Daniels, Bryan C. (2021) Task dynamics define the contextual emergence of human corralling behaviors. PLOS ONE, 16 (11). e0260046. ISSN 1932-6203

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Abstract

Social animals have the remarkable ability to organize into collectives to achieve goals unobtainable to individual members. Equally striking is the observation that despite differences in perceptual-motor capabilities, different animals often exhibit qualitatively similar collective states of organization and coordination. Such qualitative similarities can be seen in corralling behaviors involving the encirclement of prey that are observed, for example, during collaborative hunting amongst several apex predator species living in disparate environments. Similar encirclement behaviors are also displayed by human participants in a collaborative problem-solving task involving the herding and containment of evasive artificial agents. Inspired by the functional similarities in this behavior across humans and non-human systems, this paper investigated whether the containment strategies displayed by humans emerge as a function of the task’s underlying dynamics, which shape patterns of goal-directed corralling more generally. This hypothesis was tested by comparing the strategies naïve human dyads adopt during the containment of a set of evasive artificial agents across two disparate task contexts. Despite the different movement types (manual manipulation or locomotion) required in the different task contexts, the behaviors that humans display can be predicted as emergent properties of the same underlying task-dynamic model.

Item Type: Article
Subjects: Institute Archives > Geological Science
Depositing User: Managing Editor
Date Deposited: 23 Mar 2023 04:54
Last Modified: 21 Aug 2023 11:14
URI: http://eprint.subtopublish.com/id/eprint/555

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