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Mechanistic models must link the field and the lab

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  19 March 2019

Alasdair I. Houston  and
Gaurav Malhotra
Alasdair I. Houston
Affiliation:
School of Biological Sciences, University of Bristol, Bristol BS8 1TQ, UK. a.i.houston@bristol.ac.ukhttp://www.bristol.ac.uk/biology/people/alasdair-i-houston/index.html
Gaurav Malhotra
Affiliation:
School of Psychological Science, University of Bristol, Bristol BS8 1TU, UK. gaurav.malhotra@bristol.ac.ukhttp://www.bristol.ac.uk/expsych/people/gaurav-malhotra/index.html
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Abstract

In the theory outlined in the target article, an animal forages continuously, making sequential decisions in a world where the amount of food and its uncertainty are fixed, but delays are variable. These assumptions contrast with the risk-sensitive foraging theory and create a problem for comparing the predictions of this model with many laboratory experiments that do not make these assumptions.

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Behavioral and Brain Sciences , Volume 42 , 2019 , e42
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