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SUMMARY:Choice and value: a behavioural ecologist's perspective on animal 
 preferences - Alex Kacelnik. Department of Zoology\, University of Oxford
DTSTART:20140210T163000Z
DTEND:20140210T180000Z
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CONTACT:P.H. Marchington
DESCRIPTION:Behavioural ecologists mostly deal with functional aspects of 
 animal preferences\, but they have to deal with data that show that the na
 ïve expectation that animals would systematically evaluate the biological
  consequences of each option and take the one with a greatest fitness expe
 ctation doesn’t always work. In many protocols animals (including humans
 ) depart from what appears to be the biologically rational choice\, for in
 stance not picking the alternative yielding the biggest magnitude or highe
 st probability of reward. I will discuss several such instances and consid
 er how the mechanisms that cause them may be consistent with an evolutiona
 ry perspective.   \n
LOCATION:Hodgkin-Huxley Room\, Department of Physiology Development and Ne
 uroscience
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