Abstract Sensing, communication, navigation, decision-making, memory and learning are
key components in a standard cognitive tool-kit that enhance an animal's ability to …

Uncertainty permeates decisions from the trivial to the profound. Integrating brain and
behavioral evidence, we discuss how probabilistic (varied outcomes) and temporal (delayed …

How can choice, confidence, and response times be modeled simultaneously? Here, we
propose the new dynamical weighted evidence and visibility (dynWEV) model, an extension …

Eye movements are strongly linked to the perception of visual information and can be used
to infer mental processes during decision-making. While eye-tracking technology has been …

Strongly opinionated minorities can have a dramatic impact on the opinion dynamics of a
large population. Two factions of inflexible minorities, polarised into two competing opinions …

A growing literature has shown that people tend to make faster decisions when choosing
between two high-intensity or high-utility options than when choosing between two less …

Decisions between two economic goods can be swayed by a third unavailable
'decoy'alternative, which does not compete for choice, notoriously violating the principles of …

Highlights•We undertake a review of collective animal behaviour using Tinbergen's four
questions.•We thus identify a lack of optimality theory in collective animal behaviour.•We …

Theories of dynamic decision-making are typically built on evidence accumulation, which is
modeled using racing accumulators or diffusion models that track a shifting balance of …

Evidence accumulation, an essential component of perception and decision making, is
frequently studied with psychophysical tasks involving noisy or ambiguous stimuli. In these …