Systems neuroscience of natural behaviors in rodents

EJ Dennis, A El Hady, A Michaiel, A Clemens… - Journal of …, 2021 - jneurosci.org
Animals evolved in complex environments, producing a wide range of behaviors, including
navigation, foraging, prey capture, and conspecific interactions, which vary over timescales …

Hierarchical control over foraging behavior by anterior cingulate cortex

RJ Alejandro, CB Holroyd - Neuroscience & Biobehavioral Reviews, 2024 - Elsevier
Foraging is a natural behavior that involves making sequential decisions to maximize
rewards while minimizing the costs incurred when doing so. The prevalence of foraging …

Uncertainty drives deviations in normative foraging decision strategies

ZP Kilpatrick, JD Davidson… - Journal of The Royal …, 2021 - royalsocietypublishing.org
Nearly all animals forage to acquire energy for survival through efficient search and
resource harvesting. Patch exploitation is a canonical foraging behaviour, but there is a …

Social environment-based opportunity costs dictate when people leave social interactions

AS Gabay, A Pisauro, KC O'Nell… - Communications …, 2024 - nature.com
There is an ever-increasing understanding of the cognitive mechanisms underlying how we
process others' behaviours during social interactions. However, little is known about how …

Linking cognitive strategy, neural mechanism, and movement statistics in group foraging behaviors

R Urbaniak, M **e, E Mackevicius - Scientific Reports, 2024 - nature.com
Foraging for food is a rich and ubiquitous animal behavior that involves complex cognitive
decisions, and interactions between different individuals and species. There has been …

Stochastic dynamics of social patch foraging decisions

S Bidari, A El Hady, JD Davidson, ZP Kilpatrick - Physical review research, 2022 - APS
Animals typically forage in groups. Social foraging can help animals avoid predation and
decrease their uncertainty about the richness of food resources. Despite this, theoretical …

Control over patch encounters changes foraging behavior

S Hall-McMaster, P Dayan, NW Schuck - Iscience, 2021 - cell.com
Foraging is a common decision problem in natural environments. When new exploitable
sites are always available, a simple optimal strategy is to leave a current site when its return …

Population coding of strategic variables during foraging in freely moving macaques

N Shahidi, M Franch, A Parajuli, P Schrater… - Nature …, 2024 - nature.com
Until now, it has been difficult to examine the neural bases of foraging in naturalistic
environments because previous approaches have relied on restrained animals performing …

[HTML][HTML] Heterogeneity in the resource landscape encourages increased cognitive and perceptive capabilities in foragers

R Gibbs, P Landi, C Hui - Ecological Modelling, 2024 - Elsevier
Foraging for resources is a fundamental animal activity. Successful and efficient foraging will
ultimately lead to both indirect and direct selective advantages by providing animals with the …

Foraging Under Uncertainty Follows the Marginal Value Theorem with Bayesian Updating of Environment Representations

J Webb, P Steffan, BY Hayden, D Lee, C Kemere… - …, 2024 - pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
Foraging theory has been a remarkably successful approach to understanding the behavior
of animals in many contexts. In patch-based foraging contexts, the marginal value theorem …