The Centre for Adaptive Behaviour and Cognition (ABC) has hypothesised that much human
decision-making can be described by simple algorithmic process models (heuristics). This …

▪ Abstract Recently, there has been exciting progress in our understanding of the behavioral
and evolutionary ecology of immature parasitoids. Developing parasitoids face a diversity of …

Gerd Gigerenzer's influential work examines the rationality of individuals not from the
perspective of logic or probability, but from the point of view of adaptation to the real world of …

Abstract The neuromodulator serotonin (5-HT) has been implicated in a variety of functions
that involve patience or impulse control. Many of these effects are consistent with a long …

Real-world visual searches often contain a variable and unknown number of targets. Such
searches present difficult metacognitive challenges, as searchers must decide when to stop …

All animals face the problem of finding resources for growth, maintenance and reproduction.
Foraging in a heterogeneous (ie patchy) environment requires seemingly complex …

As most parasitoids are time limited, they usually die before they have laid all their eggs. In
such cases, optimal foraging theory predicts that female parasitoids will adopt behavioral …

The patch-leaving problem is a canonical foraging task, in which a forager must decide to
leave a current resource in search for another. Theoretical work has derived optimal …

We used a computer game to examine three aspects of patch-leaving decisions in humans:
how well do humans perform compared to the optimal policy, can they adjust their behaviour …

The acquisition of information is a fundamental part of individual foraging behaviour in
heterogeneous and changing environments. We examine how foragers may benefit from …