Subjective expectation of rewards can change the behavior of smart but impatient foragers

Affiliations

¹ Departamento de Física, Universidade Federal do Paraná, Curitiba-PR, 81531-980, Brazil; luz@fisica.ufpr.br.
² Laboratório de Física Teórica e Computacional, Departamento de Física, Universidade Federal de Pernambuco, Recife-PE, 50670-901, Brazil;
³ Department of Physics and National Institute of Science and Technology of Complex Systems, Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Norte, Natal-RN, 59078-970, Brazil.

Comment

Marcos Gomes Eleuterio da Luz et al. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2016.

. 2016 Aug 2;113(31):8571-3.

doi: 10.1073/pnas.1609369113. Epub 2016 Jul 21.

¹ Departamento de Física, Universidade Federal do Paraná, Curitiba-PR, 81531-980, Brazil; luz@fisica.ufpr.br.
² Laboratório de Física Teórica e Computacional, Departamento de Física, Universidade Federal de Pernambuco, Recife-PE, 50670-901, Brazil;
³ Department of Physics and National Institute of Science and Technology of Complex Systems, Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Norte, Natal-RN, 59078-970, Brazil.

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