Topic: stimulus-bound strategy

Essential features of the world are often hidden and must be inferred by constructing internal models based on indirect evidence. During naturalistic foraging, animals must continually choose between trying to exploit a depleting food source at their current location and leaving to explore a new source at the expense of costly travel epochs. When is it best to leave the current site for another one? In a deterministic environment, the optimal strategy is to leave the current site when the immediate rate of reward drops below the average rate - a stimulus-bound strategy, assigning each action a