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CATEGORIES:Adrian Seminars in Neuroscience
SUMMARY:Choice and value: a behavioural ecologist's perspe
 ctive on animal preferences - Alex Kacelnik. Depar
 tment of Zoology\, University of Oxford
DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20140210T163000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20140210T180000
UID:TALK49395AThttp://talks.cam.ac.uk
URL:http://talks.cam.ac.uk/talk/index/49395
DESCRIPTION:Behavioural ecologists mostly deal with functional
  aspects of animal preferences\, but they have to 
 deal with data that show that the naïve expectatio
 n that animals would systematically evaluate the b
 iological consequences of each option and take the
  one with a greatest fitness expectation doesn’t a
 lways work. In many protocols animals (including h
 umans) depart from what appears to be the biologic
 ally rational choice\, for instance not picking th
 e alternative yielding the biggest magnitude or hi
 ghest probability of reward. I will discuss severa
 l such instances and consider how the mechanisms t
 hat cause them may be consistent with an evolution
 ary perspective.   \n
LOCATION:Hodgkin-Huxley Room\, Department of Physiology Dev
 elopment and Neuroscience
CONTACT:P.H. Marchington
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