Optimal foraging in semantic memory.

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The foraging brain (2015, background): “So basic are the principles of foraging theory that they describe behavior in creatures as diverse as insects and human hunters [11,12], and contexts as broad as plant root growth and humans searching their memories when recalling a word [13,14].”
Unpacking the Exploration–Exploitation Tradeoff: A Synthesis of Human and Animal Literatures (2015, background): “…et al., 2007), an animal such as a hummingbird or a chipmunk leaving its current patch of food to search elsewhere (Kramer & Weary, to retrieve information about other topics, either from memory (Hills et al., 2012) or from the world, including online (Fu & Pirolli, 2007; Pirolli & Card, 1999).”
Models Are Stupid, and We Need More of Them (2017, methodology): “Such models, if sufficiently precise, may utilize data for validation and calibration (e.g. Schank 2008; Moussaïd et al. 2011; Hills et al. 2012), but this is not strictly necessary for such models to be useful (Wimsatt 1987; Bedau 1999; Epstein 2008; Gunawardena 2014).”
Linguistic Distributional Knowledge and Sensorimotor Grounding both Contribute to Semantic Category Production (2020, background): “2 Hills et al. (2012) optimal foraging model is also based on a corpus-derived linguistic distributional space, but it focuses on member-to-member relationships (e.g., dog → cat) rather than the category-to-member (e.g., ANIMAL → cat) relationships we describe here.”