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 …

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 …

Mental disorders arise from neural and psychological mechanisms that have been built and
shaped by natural selection across our evolutionary history. Looking at psychopathology …

Neuroeconomics applies models from economics and psychology to inform neurobiological
studies of choice. This approach has revealed neural signatures of concepts like value, risk …

A neuroethological approach to human and nonhuman primate behavior and cognition
predicts biological specializations for social life. Evidence reviewed here indicates that …

Rodent decision-making research aims to uncover the neural circuitry underlying the ability
to evaluate alternatives and select appropriate actions. Designing behavioral paradigms that …

Studies of the factors affecting reproductive success in group-living monkeys have
traditionally focused on competitive traits, like the acquisition of high dominance rank …

Sociosexual preference is critical for reproduction and survival. However, neural
mechanisms encoding social decisions on sex preference remain unclear. In this study, we …

Animals in nature are constantly managing multiple demands, and decisions about how to
adjust behavior in response to ecologically relevant demands is critical for fitness. Evidence …

Purpose Neuroeconomics and neurofinance are emerging as intriguing fields of research,
despite sharing ambiguity with the concepts of neuroscience. The relationship among the …