Quitting while you're ahead: Patch foraging and temporal cognition.
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DOI: 10.1037/bne0000526
Abstract: Theoretical models of foraging are based on the maximization of food intake rate. Remarkably, foragers often hew close to the predictions of rate maximization, except for a frequently observed bias to remain in patches for… read more here.
Keywords: temporal cognition; patch foraging; cognition; ahead patch ... See more keywords
Overharvesting in human patch foraging reflects rational structure learning and adaptive planning.
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DOI: 10.1073/pnas.2216524120
Abstract: Patch foraging presents a sequential decision-making problem widely studied across organisms-stay with a current option or leave it in search of a better alternative? Behavioral ecology has identified an optimal strategy for these decisions, but,… read more here.
Keywords: patch foraging; overharvesting human; structure; human patch ... See more keywords