Animal Foraging and the Evolution of Goal-Directed Cognition

By Thomas T. Hills. Cognitive Sciences, 2006

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Unpacking the Exploration–Exploitation Tradeoff: A Synthesis of Human and Animal Literatures (2015, background): “Levels of neurotransmitters hormones Dopaminergic activity levels are related to inter-individual differences in exploratory behavior for animals and humans, with high dopamine associated with little exploration and low dopamine associated with higher levels of exploration (Hills, 2006).”
The foraging brain (2015, background): “Ultimately, we hope this line of work will be integrated into studies of the neural bases of information-seeking and curiosity — key drivers of search behavior in foraging [48,49 ,50], and to search more generally [7].”
Patch leaving in humans: can a generalist adapt its rules to dispersal of items across patches? (2008, background): “…debate how modular the human brain is (Barrett & Kurzban 2006): one might expect that judgement of when to switch from a deteriorating resource would be an ideal candidate for such a module, given its likely importance throughout our evolutionary history (cf. Cosmides & Tooby 1994; Hills 2006).”