A primer on foraging and the explore/exploit trade-off for psychiatry research

MA Addicott, JM Pearson, MM Sweitzer… - …, 2017‏ - nature.com
Foraging is a fundamental behavior, and many types of animals appear to have solved
foraging problems using a shared set of mechanisms. Perhaps the most common foraging …

How outcome uncertainty mediates attention, learning, and decision-making

IE Monosov - Trends in neurosciences, 2020‏ - cell.com
Animals and humans evolved sophisticated nervous systems that endowed them with the
ability to form internal-models or beliefs and make predictions about the future to survive and …

Decision making: the neuroethological turn

JM Pearson, KK Watson, ML Platt - Neuron, 2014‏ - cell.com
Neuroeconomics applies models from economics and psychology to inform neurobiological
studies of choice. This approach has revealed neural signatures of concepts like value, risk …

Neuroethology of primate social behavior

SWC Chang, LJN Brent, GK Adams, JT Klein… - Proceedings of the …, 2013‏ - pnas.org
A neuroethological approach to human and nonhuman primate behavior and cognition
predicts biological specializations for social life. Evidence reviewed here indicates that …

Sexually dimorphic dopaminergic circuits determine sex preference

A Wei, A Zhao, C Zheng, N Dong, X Cheng, X Duan… - Science, 2025‏ - science.org
Sociosexual preference is critical for reproduction and survival. However, neural
mechanisms encoding social decisions on sex preference remain unclear. In this study, we …

Decision-making behaviors: weighing ethology, complexity, and sensorimotor compatibility

AL Juavinett, JC Erlich, AK Churchland - Current opinion in neurobiology, 2018‏ - Elsevier
Rodent decision-making research aims to uncover the neural circuitry underlying the ability
to evaluate alternatives and select appropriate actions. Designing behavioral paradigms that …

Adaptations for social cognition in the primate brain

ML Platt, RM Seyfarth… - … Transactions of the …, 2016‏ - royalsocietypublishing.org
Studies of the factors affecting reproductive success in group-living monkeys have
traditionally focused on competitive traits, like the acquisition of high dominance rank …

[PDF][PDF] Por que existem vieses cognitivos na Tomada de Decisão Judicial? A contribuição da Psicologia e das Neurociências para o debate jurídico

RL Horta - Revista Brasileira de Políticas Públicas, Brasília, 2019‏ - researchgate.net
A literatura jurídica brasileira tem começado a se questionar sobre a existência e os efeitos
de vieses cognitivos na tomada de decisão juridicamente relevante. Trabalhos teóricos e …

Serotonin promotes exploitation in complex environments by accelerating decision-making

S Iwanir, AS Brown, S Nagy, D Najjar, A Kazakov… - BMC biology, 2016‏ - Springer
Background Fast responses can provide a competitive advantage when resources are
inhomogeneously distributed. The nematode Caenorhabditis elegans was shown to …

Anticipating conflict: neural correlates of a Bayesian belief and its motor consequence

S Hu, JS Ide, S Zhang, RL Chiang-shan - Neuroimage, 2015‏ - Elsevier
Previous studies have examined the neural correlates of proactive control using a variety of
behavioral paradigms; however, the neural network relating the control process to its …