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Niccolo Pescetelli

New Jersey Institute of Technology
Verified email at njit.edu
Cited by 638

Beyond collective intelligence: Collective adaptation

…, A Mesoudi, H Olsson, N Pescetelli… - Journal of the …, 2023 - royalsocietypublishing.org
We develop a conceptual framework for studying collective adaptation in complex socio-cognitive
systems, driven by dynamic interactions of social integration strategies, social …

[PDF][PDF] Brain mechanisms underlying the brief maintenance of seen and unseen sensory information

JR King, N Pescetelli, S Dehaene - Neuron, 2016 - cell.com
Recent evidence of unconscious working memory challenges the notion that only visible
stimuli can be actively maintained over time. In the present study, we investigated the neural …

Confidence, advice seeking and changes of mind in decision making

N Pescetelli, AK Hauperich, N Yeung - Cognition, 2021 - Elsevier
Humans and other animals rely on social learning strategies to guide their behaviour,
especially when the task is difficult and individual learning might be costly or ineffective. Recent …

Crowds vs swarms, a comparison of intelligence

…, D Baltaxe, N Pescetelli - 2016 swarm/human …, 2016 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
… Using a random sampler, 19 individuals were selected at random (with replacement) and
the n-th individual answer taken as the answer of the sample for the n-th question; that is, the …

The role of decision confidence in advice-taking and trust formation.

N Pescetelli, N Yeung - Journal of Experimental Psychology …, 2021 - psycnet.apa.org
Pescetelli. It was inspired by research on the computational mechanisms of social interaction,
for example, by Bahador Bahrami (with whom Niccolò Pescetelli … of Niccolò Pescetelli, …

The perceptual and social components of metacognition.

N Pescetelli, G Rees, B Bahrami - Journal of Experimental …, 2016 - psycnet.apa.org
When deciding whether or not to bring an umbrella to work, your confidence will be influenced
by the sky outside the window (direct evidence) as well as by, for example, whether or not …

Artificial Swarm Intelligence amplifies accuracy when predicting financial markets

L Rosenberg, N Pescetelli… - 2017 IEEE 8th Annual …, 2017 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Across the natural world, many species have evolved methods for amplifying their decision-making
accuracy by thinking together in real-time closed-loop systems. Known as Swarm …

[HTML][HTML] Modularity and composite diversity affect the collective gathering of information online

N Pescetelli, A Rutherford, I Rahwan - Nature Communications, 2021 - nature.com
Many modern interactions happen in a digital space, where automated recommendations
and homophily can shape the composition of groups interacting together and the knowledge …

Hybrid social learning in human-algorithm cultural transmission

…, TF Müller, I Rahwan, N Pescetelli - … of the Royal …, 2022 - royalsocietypublishing.org
… G e n H y 2 ) will locally increase performance so that a score boost is observed in generation
three ( G e n H y 3 ) and following generations compared to the first generation ( G e n H y …

[HTML][HTML] Bots influence opinion dynamics without direct human-bot interaction: The mediating role of recommender systems

N Pescetelli, D Barkoczi, M Cebrian - Applied Network Science, 2022 - Springer
… To measure this indirect n-th order influence of bots on agents, in the next paragraph, we
compare the two simulation conditions (bot vs. no bot) while using the same random seed and …