Bradley D. Ohlinger, Takao Sasaki, How miscommunication can improve collective performance in social insects, Trends in Cognitive Sciences, Volume 30, Issue 1, 2026, Pages 10-12, 10.1016/j.tics.2025.10.005.
Communication errors are typically viewed as detrimental, yet they can benefit collective foraging in social insects. Temnothorax ants provide a powerful model for studying how such errors arise during tandem running and how they might improve group performance under certain environmental conditions.