The following is a selective list. For more robotics-related publications please visit the Projects page. For an exhaustive list please visit James’ Google Scholar or ORCID pages.
2019
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2018
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Cope, A., Vasilaki, E., Minors, D., Sabo, C., Marshall, J. A. R. & Barron, A. B. (2018) Abstract concept learning in a simple neural network inspired by the insect brain. PLoS Computational Biology 14(9): e1006435 [PDF]
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Reina, A., Bose, T., Trianni, V. & Marshall, J. A. R. (2018) Psychophysical laws and the superorganism. Scientific Reports 8, 4387 [PDF]
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Booton, R., Yamaguchi, R., Marshall, J. A. R., Childs, D. Z. & Iwasa, Y. (2018) Interactions between immunotoxicants and parasite stress: implications for host health. Journal of Theoretical Biology 445, 120-127 [PDF]
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Pirrone, A., Azab, H., Hayden, B. Y., Stafford, T. & Marshall, J. A. R. (2018) Evidence for the speed-value trade-off: human and monkey decision making is magnitude sensitive. Decision 5, 129-142 [PDF]
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Richardson, T. O., Mullon, C., Marshall, J. A. R., Franks, N. R. & Schlegel, T. (2018) The influence of the few: a stable ‘oligarchy’ controls information flow in house-hunting ants. Proceedings of the Royal Society B 285 [PDF]
2017
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Marshall, J. A. R., Brown, G. & Radford, A. N. (2017) Individual confidence-weighting and group decision-making. Trends in Ecology and Evolution 32, 636-645 [PDF]
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Pirrone, A., Marshall, J. A. R. & Stafford, T. (2017) A drift diffusion model account of the semantic congruity effect. Journal of Numerical Cognition 3, 77-96 [PDF]
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Quickfall, C. G. & Marshall, J. A. R. (2017) The evolution of mutualism with modifiers. Ecology & Evolution 7, 6114-6118 [PDF]
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Ramirez, J. C. & Marshall, J. A. R. (2017) Can natural selection encode Bayesian priors? Journal of Theoretical Biology 426, 57-66 [PDF]
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Reina, A., Trianni, V., Marshall, J. A. R. & Bose, T. (2017) A model of the best-of-N nest-site selection process in honeybees. Physical Review E 95, 052411 [PDF]
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Bose, T., Reina, A. Marshall, J. A. R. (2017) Collective decision-making. Current Opinion in Behavioral Sciences 16, 30-34 [PDF]
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Booton, R. D., Iwasa, Y., Marshall, J. A. R. & Childs, D. Z. Stress-mediated Allee effects can cause the sudden collapse of honey bee colonies. Journal of Theoretical Biology 420, 213-219 [PDF]
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Cope, A. J., Sabo C., Vasilaki, E., Barron, A. B. & Marshall, J. A. R. (2017) A computational model of the integration of landmarks and motion in the insect central complex. PLoS one 12(2): e0172325 [PDF]
2016
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Marshall, J. A. R. (2016) What is inclusive fitness theory, and what is it for? Current Opinion in Behavioural Sciences 12, 103-108 [PDF]
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Reid, C. R., MacDonald, H., Mann, R. P., Marshall, J. A. R., Latty, T. & Garnier, S. (2016) Decision-making without a brain: how an amoeboid organism solves the two-armed bandit. Journal of the Royal Society: Interface 13: 20160030 [PDF]
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Cope, A., Sabo, C., Gurney, K., Vasilaki, E. & Marshall, J. A. R. (2016) A model for an angular velocity-tuned motion detector accounting for deviations in the corridor-centering response of the bee. PLoS Computational Biology 12(5): e1004887 [PDF]
2015
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Barron, A., Gurney, K., Meah, L. F., Vasilaki, E. & Marshall, J. A. R. (2015) Decision-making and action selection in insects: inspiration from vertebrate-based theories. Frontiers in Behavioural Neuroscience [PDF]
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Marshall, J.A.R. (2015) Social Evolution and Inclusive Fitness Theory: An Introduction. Princeton University Press [order]
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Queller, D. (2015) The theory of inclusive fitness. Quarterly Review of Biology 91, 343-347 [PDF]
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Ulrich, E. (2016) Inclusive fitness 101: math not required. Trends in Ecology and Evolution 31, 178-179 [PDF]
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Akçay, E. (2015) An apology for inclusive fitness theory. Evolution [PDF]
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Allen, B. (2015) Inclusive fitness theory becomes an end in itself. BioScience 65, 1103-1104 [PDF]
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Marshall, J. A. R. (2016) Errors in Allen’s review of Social Evolution and Inclusive Fitness Theory: An Introduction. BioScience 66, 185 [PDF]
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Allen, B. (2016) Statistical inference is not needed when the solution Is already known. BioScience 66, 186 [PDF]
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Fawcett, T. W., Marshall, J. A. R. & Higginson, A. D. (2015) The evolution of mechanisms underlying behaviour. Current Zoology 61, 221-225 [PDF]
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Marshall, J. A. R., Favreau-Peigné, A., Fromhage, L., McNamara, J. M., Meah, L. F. S. & Houston, A. I. (2015) Cross inhibition improves activity selection when switching incurs time costs. Current Zoology 61, 242-250[PDF]
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Ramírez, J. C. & Marshall, J. A. R. (2015) Self-deception can evolve under appropriate costs. Current Zoology 61, 382-396 [PDF]
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Marshall, J. A. R. (2015) Desperately seeking meaning (review of E. O. Wilson’s Meaning of Human Existence). BioScience 65: 328-329 [PDF]
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Osinga, H. M. & Marshall, J. A. R. (2015) Adaptive topographies and equilibrium selection in an evolutionary game. PLoS one 10(2): e0116307[PDF]
2014
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Birch, J. & Marshall, J. A. R. (2014) Queller’s separation condition explained and defended. American Naturalist 184, 531-540 [PDF]
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Marshall, J. A. R. (2014) Generalisations of Hamilton’s rule applied to non-additive public goods games with random group size. Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution 2, 40 [PDF]
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Pirrone, A., Stafford, T. & Marshall, J.A.R. (2014) When natural selection should optimise speed-accuracy trade-offs. Frontiers in Neuroscience 8, 73 [PDF]
2013
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Cassey, T.C., Evens, D.R., Bogacz, R., Marshall, J.A.R. & Ludwig, C.J.H. (2013) Adaptive sampling of information in perceptual decision-making. PLoS one 8(11): e78993 [PDF]
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Pais, D., Hogan, P.M., Schlegel, T., Franks, N.R., Leonard, N.E. & Marshall, J.A.R. (2013) A mechanism for value-sensitive decision-making. PLoS one 8(9): e73216 [PDF]
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Marshall, J.A.R., Trimmer, P.C., Houston, A.I. & McNamara, J.M. (2013) On evolutionary explanations of cognitive biases. Trends in Ecology and Evolution 28, 469-473 [PDF]
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Marshall, J.A.R., Trimmer, P.C. & Houston, A.I. (2013) Unbiased individuals use valuable information when making decisions. Trends in Ecology and Evolution 28, 444-445 [PDF]
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Franks, N.R., Richardson, T.O., Stroeymeyt, N., Kirby, R.W., Amos, W. M.D., Hogan, P. M., Marshall, J.A.R. & Schlegel, T. (2013) Speed-cohesion trade-offs in collective decision making in ants and the concept of precision in animal behaviour. Animal Behaviour 85, 1233-1244 [PDF]
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Zenil, H. & Marshall, J.A.R. (2012) Computational aspects of essential properties of evolution and life. ACM Ubiquity 2013, 1-16 [PDF]
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Trimmer, P.C., Marshall, J.A.R., Fromhage, L., McNamara, J.M. & Houston, A.I. (2012) Understanding the placebo effect from an evolutionary perspective. Evolution & Human Behavior 34, 8-15 [PDF]
2012
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Zenil, H., Gershenon, C., Marshall, J.A.R. & Rosenblueth, D.A. (2012) Life as thermodynamic evidence of algorithmic structure in natural environments. Entropy 14, 2173-2191 [PDF]
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Marshall, J.A.R., Bogacz, R. & Gilchrist, I.D. (2012) Consistent implementation of decisions in the brain. PLoS one 7(9): e43443 [PDF]
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Marshall, J.A.R. & Neumann, F. (2012) Foundations of search – a perspective from computer science. In: Todd, Hills & Robbins (eds.) Cognitive Search: Evolution, Algorithms and the Brain. MIT Press. [PDF]
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Schooler L. et al. (2012) Search environments, representation, and encoding. In: Todd, Hills & Robbins (eds.) Cognitive Search: Evolution, Algorithms and the Brain. MIT Press. [PDF]
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Trimmer, P.C., McNamara, J.M., Houston, A.I. & Marshall, J.A.R. (2012) Does natural selection favour the Rescorla-Wagner rule? Journal of Theoretical Biology 302, 39-52 [PDF]
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Franklin, E., Robinson, E.J.H., Marshall, J.A.R., Sendova-Franks, A. & Franks, N.R. (2012) Do ants need to be old and experienced to teach? Journal of Experimental Biology 215, 1287-1292 [PDF]
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Seeley, T.D, Visscher, P.K. Schlegel, T., Hogan, P.M., Franks, N.R. & Marshall, J.A.R. (2012) Stop signals provide cross inhibition in collective decision-making by honeybee swarms. Science 335, 108-111 [PDF]
2011
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Houston, A.I., Trimmer, P.C., Fawcett, T.W., Higginson, A.D., Marshall, J.A.R. & McNamara, J.M. (2011) Is optimism optimal? Functional causes of apparent behavioural biases. Behavioral Processes 89, 172-178 [PDF]
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Marshall, J.A.R. (2011) Group selection and kin selection: formally equivalent approaches. Trends in Ecology and Evolution 26, 325-332[PDF]
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Robinson, E.J.H., Franks, N.R., Ellis, S., Okuda, S. & Marshall, J.A.R. (2011) A simple threshold rule is sufficient to explain sophisticated collective decision making. PLoS one 6(5): e19981 [PDF]
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Abott, P. et al. (2011) Inclusive fitness theory and eusociality. Nature 471, E1-E4 [PDF]
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Trimmer, P.C., Houston, A.I., Marshall, J.A.R., Mendl, M.T., Paul, E.S. & McNamara, J.M. (2011) Decision-making under uncertainty: biases and Bayesians. Animal Cognition 14, 465-476 [PDF]
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Marshall, J.A.R. (2011) Optimal voting in groups with convergent interests. AAAI Spring Symposium Series [PDF]
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Stroeymeyt, N., Robinson, E.J.H., Hogan, P.M., Marshall, J.A.R., Giurfa, M. & Franks, N.R. (2011) Experience-dependent flexibility in collective decision-making by house-hunting ants. Behavioral Ecology 22, 535-542 [PDF]
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Marshall, J. A. R., Bogacz, R., Planqué, R., Kovacs, T. & Franks, N. R. (2011) On optimal decision making in brains and social insect colonies. In: Seth et al. (eds.) Modelling Natural Action Selection. Cambridge University Press
2010
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Trianni, V., Tuci, L., Passino, K.M. & Marshall, J.A.R. (2010) Swarm cognition: an interdisciplinary approach to the study of self-organising biological collectives. Swarm Intelligence 5, 3-18 [PDF]
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Marshall, J. A. R., McNamara, J. M. & Houston, A. I. (2010) The state of Darwinian theory. Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology 65, 417-420 [PDF]
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Marshall, J. A. R. (2010) Ultimate causes and the evolution of altruism. Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology 65, 503-512 [PDF]
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McNamara, J. M., Trimmer, P. C., Eriksson, A., Marshall, J. A. R. & Houston, A. I. (2010) Environmental variability can select for optimism or pessimism. Ecology Letters 14, 58-62 [PDF]
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Marshall, J. A. R. (2010) Queller’s rule OK: comment on van Veelen ‘when inclusive fitness is right and when it can be wrong’. Journal of Theoretical Biology 270, 185-188 [PDF]
2009
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Marshall, J. A. R. (2009) The donation game with roles played between relatives. Journal of Theoretical Biology 260, 386-391 [PDF]
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Marshall, J. A. R. & Franks, N. R. (2009) Colony-level cognition. Current Biology 19, R395-R396 [PDF]
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Marshall, J. A. R., Bogacz, R., Dornhaus, A. Planqué, R., Kovacs, T. & Franks, N. R. (2009) On optimal decision making in brains and social insect colonies. Journal of the Royal Society: Interface 6, 1065-1074 [PDF]
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Franks, N. R., Dornhaus, A., Marshall, J. A. R. & Dechaume-Moncharmont, F. X. (2009) The dawn of a golden age in mathematical insect sociobiology. In: Gadau and Fewell (eds.) Organization of Insect Societies. Harvard University Press.
2008
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Trimmer, P., Bogacz, R., Houston, A. I., Marshall, J. A. R., McNamara, J. M., Mendl, M., Paul, E. (2008) Mammalian choices: combining fast-but-innacurate and slow-but-accurate decision-making systems. Proceedings of the Royal Society B 275, 2353-2361 [PDF]
2007
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Franks, N. R., Hooper, J. W., Gumn, M., Bridger, T. H., Marshall, J. A. R., Gross, R. & Dornhaus, A. (2007) Moving targets: collective decisions and flexible choices in house-hunting ants. Swarm Intelligence 2, 81-94 [PDF]
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Planqué, R., Dechaume-Moncharmont, F. X., Franks, N. R., Kovacs, T. & Marshall, J. A. R. (2007) Why do house-hunting ants recruit in both directions? Naturwissenschaften 94, 1028-1042 [PDF]
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Planqué, R., Dornhaus, A., Franks, N. R., Kovacs, T. & Marshall, J. A. R. (2007) Weighting waiting in collective decision-making. Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology 61, 347-356 [PDF]
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Marshall, J. A. R. & Franks, N. R. (2007) Computer modelling in behavioral and evolutionary ecology: whys and wherefores. In: Laubichler and Müller (eds.) Modelling Biology – Structures, Behaviors, Evolution. Vienna Series in Theoretical Biology, MIT Press.
2006
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Marshall, J. A. R., Dornhaus, A., Franks, N. R. & Kovacs, T. (2006) Noise, cost and speed-accuracy trade-offs: decision making in a decentralized system. Journal of the Royal Society: Interface 3, 243-254 [PDF]
2004
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Marshall, J. A. R. (2004) Review of “The Structure of Evolutionary Theory” by S. J. Gould. Artificial Life 10, 113-115 [PDF]