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Animal Foraging and the Evolution of Goal-Directed Cognition
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Hills, Thomas T. – Cognitive Science, 2006
Foraging-and feeding-related behaviors across eumetazoans share similar molecular mechanisms, suggesting the early evolution of an optimal foraging behavior called area-restricted search (ARS), involving mechanisms of dopamine and glutamate in the modulation of behavioral focus. Similar mechanisms in the vertebrate basal ganglia control motor…
Descriptors: Animals, Animal Behavior, Evolution, Neurological Organization