Collective Cognition in Humans: Groups Outperform Their Best Members in a Sentence Reconstruction Task

• Romain J. G. Clément ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Romain J. G. Clément, Stefan Krause

  Affiliations Department of Biology and Ecology of Fishes, Leibniz-Institute of Freshwater Ecology and Inland Fisheries, Berlin, Germany, Department of Crop and Animal Sciences, Humboldt-University of Berlin, Berlin, Germany

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• Stefan Krause ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Romain J. G. Clément, Stefan Krause

  Affiliation Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, Lübeck University of Applied Sciences, Lübeck, Germany

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• Nikolaus von Engelhardt,

  Affiliation Department of Animal Behaviour, University of Bielefeld, Bielefeld, Germany

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• Jolyon J. Faria,

  Affiliation Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, Princeton University, Princeton, New Jersey, United States of America

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• Jens Krause,

  Affiliations Department of Biology and Ecology of Fishes, Leibniz-Institute of Freshwater Ecology and Inland Fisheries, Berlin, Germany, Department of Crop and Animal Sciences, Humboldt-University of Berlin, Berlin, Germany

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• Ralf H. J. M. Kurvers

  * E-mail: ralf.kurvers@igb-berlin.de

  Affiliation Department of Biology and Ecology of Fishes, Leibniz-Institute of Freshwater Ecology and Inland Fisheries, Berlin, Germany

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