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SUBMITTER: Garcia M
PROVIDER: S-EPMC11003400 | biostudies-literature | 2023
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Garcia Marissa M Gupta Sukriti S Wikenheiser Andrew M AM
Oxford open neuroscience 20231017
The ubiquity, importance, and sophistication of foraging behavior makes it an ideal platform for studying naturalistic decision making in animals. We developed a spatial patch-foraging task for rats, in which subjects chose how long to remain in one foraging patch as the rate of food earnings steadily decreased. The cost of seeking out a new location was varied across sessions. The behavioral task was designed to mimic the structure of natural foraging problems, where distinct spatial locations ...[more]