Complex social ecology needs complex machineries of foraging

Behav Brain Sci. 2019 Jan:42:e45. doi: 10.1017/S0140525X18002078.

Abstract

Uncertainty is caused not only by environmental changes, but also by social interference resulting from competition over food resources. Actually, foraging effort is socially facilitated, which, however, does not require incentive control by the dopamine system; Zajonc's "drive" theory is thus questionable. Instead, social adjustments may be pre-embedded in the limbic network responsible for decisions of appropriate effort-cost investment.

Publication types

  • Comment

MeSH terms

  • Decision Making*
  • Motivation*
  • Social Environment
  • Uncertainty