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“How Foraging Works”: Let's not forget the physiological mechanisms of energy balance

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  19 March 2019

Tom V. Smulders Open the ORCID record for Tom V. Smulders [Opens in a new window] ,
Timothy Boswell  and
Lindsay J. Henderson
Tom V. Smulders
Affiliation:
Institute of Neuroscience, Centre for Behaviour and Evolution, Newcastle University, Newcastle upon Tyne, NE2 4HH, UK. tom.smulders@ncl.ac.uklindsay.henderson@ncl.ac.ukhttps://www.staff.ncl.ac.uk/tom.smulders/http://www.lindsayjenniferhenderson.com/
Timothy Boswell
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School of Natural and Environmental Sciences, Centre for Behaviour and Evolution, Newcastle University, Newcastle upon Tyne NE1 7RU, UK. timothy.boswell@ncl.ac.ukhttps://www.ncl.ac.uk/nes/staff/profile/timothyboswell.html#background
Lindsay J. Henderson
Affiliation:
Institute of Neuroscience, Centre for Behaviour and Evolution, Newcastle University, Newcastle upon Tyne, NE2 4HH, UK. tom.smulders@ncl.ac.uklindsay.henderson@ncl.ac.ukhttps://www.staff.ncl.ac.uk/tom.smulders/http://www.lindsayjenniferhenderson.com/
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Abstract

Anselme & Güntürkün propose a novel mechanism to explain the increase in foraging motivation when experiencing an unpredictable food supply. However, the physiological mechanisms that maintain energy homeostasis already control foraging intensity in response to changes in energy balance. Therefore, unpredictability may just be one of many factors that feeds into the same dopaminergic “wanting” system to control foraging intensity.

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Behavioral and Brain Sciences , Volume 42 , 2019 , e51
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