Intersection of Effort and Risk: Ethological and Neurobiological Perspectives

The physical effort required to seek out and extract a resource is an important consideration for a foraging animal. A second consideration is the variability or risk associated with resource delivery. An intriguing observation from ethological studies is that animals shift their preference from sta...

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Main Authors: Mike A Miller, Alexander eThome, Stephen Leigh Cowen
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Frontiers Media S.A. 2013-11-01
Series:Frontiers in Neuroscience
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Online Access:http://journal.frontiersin.org/Journal/10.3389/fnins.2013.00208/full