Speed–accuracy trade-offs during foraging decisions in the acellular slime mould
            <i>Physarum polycephalum</i>

Latty, Tanya; Beekman, Madeleine

doi:10.1098/rspb.2010.1624

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“…Firstly, visits, both working and otherwise, to old nests may be mistakes, reflecting imperfect knowledge or speed-accuracy trade-offs (Reed, 1973;Chittka et al, 2009;Latty and Beekman, 2010). Indeed, birds do on occasion take fresh grass to an older nest and attempt to weave it into that nest before taking the grass to the new nest.…”

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Are Elaborate Bird Nests Built Using Simple Rules?

Walsh

Hansell

Borello

et al. 2013

Avian Biology Research

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Determining how animals achieve seemingly complex behaviours is central to our understanding of the evolution of cognition. Complexity in behaviour is itself not sufficient for confirming a role for learning and memory. For example, although the nests some birds build appear structurally complex, they may, like the structures built by ants and termites, be achieved through relatively simple building processes. We attempted to use observations of nest building by male Southern Masked Weavers to determine whether one aspect of nest building, the completion of a nest, could be described usefully by either of two rule-based explanations that explain the construction of complex physical structures by invertebrates. The first possibility, stigmergy, is that birds use feedback from local nest cues to determine the building sequence and nest completion. The second possibility is that birds follow a stereotypical series of behaviours. We found that male Southern Masked Weavers returned to work on apparently complete nests even when they had begun to build a new nest. Neither stigmergy nor stereotypy explains our observations of nest building behaviour in Southern Masked Weavers. If weaverbirds do complete their nests using a set of rules, those rules are not the simple ones that have been used to describe building by invertebrates. This leaves open the possibility that learning and memory play a greater role in nest building than is currently thought to be the case.

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Section: Discussionmentioning

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Are Elaborate Bird Nests Built Using Simple Rules?

Walsh

Hansell

Borello

et al. 2013

Avian Biology Research

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“…On the one hand, the quality of decision making improves when it is based on more information; on the other hand, decisions are only acceptable when they are timely. In psychology, this balance is known as the speed-accuracy trade-off, a trade-off that affects basketball players, honeybees, and even acellular organisms such as slime molds (Latty & Beekman 2011). …”

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Sequential Sampling Models in Cognitive Neuroscience: Advantages, Applications, and Extensions

Forstmann

Ratcliff

Wagenmakers

2016

Annu. Rev. Psychol.

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Sequential sampling models assume that people make speeded decisions by gradually accumulating noisy information until a threshold of evidence is reached. In cognitive science, one such model—the diffusion decision model—is now regularly used to decompose task performance into underlying processes such as the quality of information processing, response caution, and a priori bias. In the cognitive neurosciences, the diffusion decision model has recently been adopted as a quantitative tool to study the neural basis of decision making under time pressure. We present a selective overview of several recent applications and extensions of the diffusion decision model in the cognitive neurosciences.

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“…However, the experiments did show that the faster the decision, the less likely the plasmodium was to select the best food source. Slime moulds clearly trade off speed against accuracy when deciding which food source to select [33]. And, as in all other organisms in which speed-accuracy trade offs have been studied, the more difficult the discrimination task, the more likely the speed of decision making compromises the accuracy of the decision [33][34][35][36].…”

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