Optimal short-sighted rules

Frontiers in Neuroscience

Volumn , Issue SEP, 2012, Pages

  Bourgeois Gironde, Sacha ^a  

^a UNIVERSITÉ PANTHÉON ASSAS   (France)

Author keywords

Behavioral ecology; Intertemporal choice; Myopia; Patch paradigms; Self control

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BEHAVIORAL ECOLOGY; BEHAVIORAL ECONOMICS; DECISION MAKING; DISCOUNTED UTILITY THEORY; ENVIRONMENT; EVOLUTIONARY RATE; FOOD; FOOD INTAKE; FOOD PREFERENCE; FORAGING BEHAVIOR; FORCED CHOICE METHOD; HUMAN; NONHUMAN; REWARD; SELF CONTROL;

EID: 84870936605     PISSN: 16624548     EISSN: 1662453X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3389/fnins.2012.00129     Document Type: Article

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