The roles of dopamine and related compounds in reward-seeking behavior across animal phyla

AB Barron, E Søvik, JL Cornish - Frontiers in behavioral neuroscience, 2010 - frontiersin.org
Motile animals actively seek out and gather resources they find rewarding, and this is an
extremely powerful organizer and motivator of animal behavior. Mammalian studies have …

What's in the brain for us: a systematic literature review of neuroeconomics and neurofinance

M Srivastava, GD Sharma, AK Srivastava… - … Research in Financial …, 2020 - emerald.com
Purpose Neuroeconomics and neurofinance are emerging as intriguing fields of research,
despite sharing ambiguity with the concepts of neuroscience. The relationship among the …

Subsecond timing in primates: comparison of interval production between human subjects and rhesus monkeys

W Zarco, H Merchant, L Prado… - Journal of …, 2009 - journals.physiology.org
This study describes the psychometric similarities and differences in motor timing
performance between 20 human subjects and three rhesus monkeys during two timing …

[HTML][HTML] Active inference, stressors, and psychological trauma: A neuroethological model of (mal) adaptive explore-exploit dynamics in ecological context

A Linson, T Parr, KJ Friston - Behavioural brain research, 2020 - Elsevier
This paper offers a formal account of emotional inference and stress-related behaviour,
using the notion of active inference. We formulate responses to stressful scenarios in terms …

Hunter-gatherer males are more risk-seeking than females, even in late childhood

CL Apicella, AN Crittenden, VA Tobolsky - Evolution and Human Behavior, 2017 - Elsevier
Observed economic and labor disparities between the sexes may, in part, result from
evolved sex differences in risk preferences. Using incentivized economic games, we report …

Equal performance but distinct behaviors: sex differences in a novel object recognition task and spatial maze in a highly social cichlid fish

KJ Wallace, HA Hofmann - Animal Cognition, 2021 - Springer
Sex differences in behavior and cognition can be driven by differential selection pressures
from the environment and in the underlying neuromolecular mechanisms of decision …

Cognitive and motivational requirements for the emergence of cooperation in a rat social game

DS Viana, I Gordo, E Sucena, MAP Moita - PloS one, 2010 - journals.plos.org
Background Game theory and the Prisoner's Dilemma (PD) game in particular, which
captures the paradox of cooperative interactions that lead to benefits but entail costs to the …

Quitting while you're ahead: Patch foraging and temporal cognition.

RK Kendall, AM Wikenheiser - Behavioral Neuroscience, 2022 - psycnet.apa.org
Theoretical models of foraging are based on the maximization of food intake rate.
Remarkably, foragers often hew close to the predictions of rate maximization, except for a …

Emotion evaluation and response slowing in a non-human primate: new directions for cognitive bias measures of animal emotion?

EJ Bethell, A Holmes, A MacLarnon, S Semple - Behavioral Sciences, 2016 - mdpi.com
The cognitive bias model of animal welfare assessment is informed by studies with humans
demonstrating that the interaction between emotion and cognition can be detected using …

[HTML][HTML] Not all discounts are created equal: Regional activity and brain networks in temporal and effort discounting

MM Varma, S Zhen, R Yu - NeuroImage, 2023 - Elsevier
Reward outcomes associated with costs like time delay and effort investment are generally
discounted in decision-making. Standard economic models predict rewards associated with …