Rats exhibit similar biases in foraging and intertemporal choice tasks

Animals, including humans, consistently exhibit myopia in two different contexts: foraging, in which they harvest locally beyond what is predicted by optimal foraging theory, and intertemporal choice, in which they exhibit a preference for immediate vs. delayed rewards beyond what is predicted by ra...

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Main Authors: Gary A Kane, Aaron M Bornstein, Amitai Shenhav, Robert C Wilson, Nathaniel D Daw, Jonathan D Cohen
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: eLife Sciences Publications Ltd 2019-09-01
Series:eLife
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Online Access:https://elifesciences.org/articles/48429