Biological brains are capable of adaptive behavior to sustain performance in tasks in the face of increasingly difficult constraints. We present a task with varying conditions of resource and time constraints. We compare our heuristic and neural network models to human data and speculate about dynamic mechanisms of action selection.

We examined whether self-esteem and narcissism predict the occurrence of stressful life events (i.e., selection) and whether stressful life events predict change in self-esteem and narcissism (i.e., socialization). The analyses were based on longitudinal data from two studies, including samples of 328 young adults (Study 1) and 371 adults (Study 2). The effects of self-esteem and narcissism wer...

Abstract Habitat selection behavior by aquatic and terrestrial animals is influenced both abiotic (e.g., temperature) biotic threat from predators) environmental factors. In this study, the mechanisms underlying variability in of habitat Daphnia under stress were examined. Experiments conducted using five clones with different preferences and, consequently, a width reaction norm. These also sho...