Subjective costs drive overly patient foraging strategies in rats on an intertemporal foraging task
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Subjective costs drive overly patient foraging strategies in rats on an intertemporal foraging task.
Laboratory studies of decision making often take the form of two-alternative, forced-choice paradigms. In natural settings, however, many decision problems arise as stay/go choices. We designed a foraging task to test intertemporal decision making in rats via stay/go decisions. Subjects did not follow the rate-maximizing strategy of choosing only food items associated with short delays. Instead...
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عنوان ژورنال: Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
سال: 2013
ISSN: 0027-8424,1091-6490
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1220738110