8 papers
Socio-cognitive models in a patch foraging setting: a case study for model selection and parameter identifiability methods
Lisa Blum Moyse, Ahmed El Hady
Collective patch-foraging experiments in the laboratory provide a controlled setting in which social information use can be quantified. Here, we consider a go/no-go task in which g…
Resource depletion accelerates rate learning but not composition learning in patch foraging
Zachary P. Kilpatrick, Ahmed El Hady
Foraging is a universal animal behavior that has increasingly attracted the interest of both experimentalists and theorists. Most prior models assume an animal knows the distributi…
Social hierarchy shapes foraging decisions
Lisa Blum Moyse, Ahmed El Hady
Social foraging is a widespread form of animal foraging in which groups of individuals coordinate their decisions to exploit resources in the environment. Animals show a variety of…
Social patch foraging theory in an egalitarian group
Lisa Blum Moyse, Ahmed El Hady
Foraging is a widespread behavior, and being part of a group may bring several benefits compared to solitary foraging, such as collective pooling of information and reducing enviro…
Stochastic dynamics of social patch foraging decisions
Subekshya Bidari, Ahmed El Hady, Jacob Davidson +1
Animals typically forage in groups. Social foraging can help animals avoid predation and decrease their uncertainty about the richness of food resources. Despite this, theoretical…
Normative theory of patch foraging decisions
Zachary P Kilpatrick, Jacob D Davidson, Ahmed El Hady
Foraging is a fundamental behavior as animals' search for food is crucial for their survival. Patch leaving is a canonical foraging behavior, but classic theoretical conceptions of…
Axonal Computations
Pepe Alcami, Ahmed El Hady
Axons functionally link the somato-dendritic compartment to synaptic terminals. Structurally and functionally diverse, they accomplish a central role in determining the delays and…
Rats optimally accumulate and discount evidence in a dynamic environment
Alex Piet, Ahmed El Hady, Carlos D Brody
How choices are made within noisy environments is a central question in the neuroscience of decision making. Previous work has characterized temporal accumulation of evidence for d…