The cost of limited attention in blue jays

By R. Dukas, A. Kamil. 2000

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Subfields: Developmental Biology, Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics, Global and Planetary Change

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Citations in the corpus

Does brain asymmetry allow efficient performance of simultaneous tasks (2006, background): “Other studies have shown that foraging and vigilance are largely mutually exclusive because they compete for the same limited resources: time and visual attention (Bertram 1980; Lawrence 1985; Metcalfe et al. 1987; Dukas & Kamil 2000 ).”
Sensitivity of wildlife to spatial patterns of recreationist behavior: A critical assessment of minimum approaching distances and buffer areas for grassland birds (2005, background): “A bird may need more time detecting a threat that is moving at a slower rate than one that is moving at a higher rate of approach, particularly if the bird s attention is not towards the threat while it approaches (Dukas and Kamil, 2000, 2001).”
Lateralized female topminnows can forage and attend to a harassing male simultaneously (2006, background): “A trade-off of attentional resources during simultaneous accomplishment of foraging and vigilance was documented in both fish and birds (Dukas and Kamil, 2000; Metcalfe et al., 1987).”
The Evolution of Color Polymorphism: Crypticity, Searching Images, and Apostatic Selection (2007, background): “It has, however, recently been clearly demonstrated by Dukas & Kamil (2000, 2001) with blue jays in an operant apparatus, using a design that compelled the birds to divide their attention either between spatial locations or between stimulus types.”
Limited attention: the constraint underlying search image (2001, methodology): “This prediction was critically tested by Dukas and Kamil (2000) who found that when blue jays were engaged in an easy central search task they were three times more likely to detect briefly presented peripheral targets than when engaged in a difficult central task.”
Moving to suburbia: ontogenetic and evolutionary consequences of life on predator‐free islands (2002, background): “…to producing morphological defences (Parejko, 1991), rather than offspring; time allocated to wariness, rather than foraging (Hunter & Skinner, 1998); and attention (Dukas & Kamil, 2000) that must be focused on predators, rather than important activities such as mate choice (Forsgren, 1992).”