TY - JOUR
T1 - Exploration versus exploitation in space, mind, and society
AU - Cognitive Search Research Group
AU - Hills, Thomas T.
AU - Todd, Peter M.
AU - Lazer, David
AU - Redish, A. David
AU - Couzin, Iain D.
AU - Bateson, Melissa
AU - Cools, Roshan
AU - Dukas, Reuven
AU - Giraldeau, Luc Alain
AU - Macy, Michael W.
AU - Page, Scott E.
AU - Shiffrin, Richard M.
AU - Stephens, David W.
AU - Wolfe, Jeremy W.
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© 2014 Elsevier Ltd.
PY - 2015/1/1
Y1 - 2015/1/1
N2 - 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 properties of these problems share similar structures and, often, similar solutions. Moreover, internal search (e.g., memory search) shows similar characteristics to external search (e.g., spatial foraging), including shared neural mechanisms consistent with a common evolutionary origin across species. Search problems and their solutions also scale from individuals to societies, underlying and constraining problem solving, memory, information search, and scientific and cultural innovation. In summary, search represents a core feature of cognition, with a vast influence on its evolution and processes across contexts and requiring input from multiple domains to understand its implications and scope.
AB - 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 properties of these problems share similar structures and, often, similar solutions. Moreover, internal search (e.g., memory search) shows similar characteristics to external search (e.g., spatial foraging), including shared neural mechanisms consistent with a common evolutionary origin across species. Search problems and their solutions also scale from individuals to societies, underlying and constraining problem solving, memory, information search, and scientific and cultural innovation. In summary, search represents a core feature of cognition, with a vast influence on its evolution and processes across contexts and requiring input from multiple domains to understand its implications and scope.
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U2 - 10.1016/j.tics.2014.10.004
DO - 10.1016/j.tics.2014.10.004
M3 - Review article
C2 - 25487706
AN - SCOPUS:84919497631
SN - 1364-6613
VL - 19
SP - 46
EP - 54
JO - Trends in Cognitive Sciences
JF - Trends in Cognitive Sciences
IS - 1
ER -