Bukwich*, Campbell* et al. Competitive integration of time and reward explains value-sensitive foraging decisions and frontal cortex ramping dynamics. Neuron, 2025.
<p dir="ltr">Patch foraging is a ubiquitous decision-making process in which animals decide when to abandon a resource patch of diminishing value to pursue an alternative. We developed a virtual foraging task in which mouse behavior varied systematically with patch value. Behavior co...
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| author | Malcolm Campbell (21881318) |
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| dc.creator.none.fl_str_mv | Malcolm Campbell (21881318) Michael Bukwich (12464343) David Zoltowski (5581004) Lyle Kingsbury (21957256) Momchil S. Tomov (8677314) Joshua Stern (337445) HyungGoo R. Kim (302643) Jan Drugowitsch (8058410) Scott W. Linderman (16965068) Naoshige Uchida (16965071) |
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| dc.title.none.fl_str_mv | Bukwich*, Campbell* et al. Competitive integration of time and reward explains value-sensitive foraging decisions and frontal cortex ramping dynamics. Neuron, 2025. |
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| description | <p dir="ltr">Patch foraging is a ubiquitous decision-making process in which animals decide when to abandon a resource patch of diminishing value to pursue an alternative. We developed a virtual foraging task in which mouse behavior varied systematically with patch value. Behavior could be explained by models integrating time and rewards antagonistically, scaled by a slowly varying latent patience state. Describing a mechanism, rather than a normative prescription, these models quantitatively captured deviations from optimal foraging theory. Neuropixels recordings throughout frontal areas revealed distributed ramping signals, concentrated in frontal cortex, from which multiple integrator models’ decision variables could be decoded equally well. These signals reflected key aspects of decision models: they ramped gradually, responded oppositely to time and rewards, were sensitive to patch richness, and retained memory of reward history. Together, these results identify integration via frontal cortex ramping dynamics as a candidate mechanism for solving patch-foraging problems.</p> |
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| spelling | Bukwich*, Campbell* et al. Competitive integration of time and reward explains value-sensitive foraging decisions and frontal cortex ramping dynamics. Neuron, 2025.Malcolm Campbell (21881318)Michael Bukwich (12464343)David Zoltowski (5581004)Lyle Kingsbury (21957256)Momchil S. Tomov (8677314)Joshua Stern (337445)HyungGoo R. Kim (302643)Jan Drugowitsch (8058410)Scott W. Linderman (16965068)Naoshige Uchida (16965071)Behavioural ecologyAnimal neurobiologyCentral nervous systemComputational neuroscience (incl. mathematical neuroscience and theoretical neuroscience)Behavioural neuroscienceDecision makingforagingpatch foragingdecision makingMarginal value theoremneural integrationNeuropixelsfrontal cortexramping activityvirtual realitylatent state<p dir="ltr">Patch foraging is a ubiquitous decision-making process in which animals decide when to abandon a resource patch of diminishing value to pursue an alternative. We developed a virtual foraging task in which mouse behavior varied systematically with patch value. Behavior could be explained by models integrating time and rewards antagonistically, scaled by a slowly varying latent patience state. Describing a mechanism, rather than a normative prescription, these models quantitatively captured deviations from optimal foraging theory. Neuropixels recordings throughout frontal areas revealed distributed ramping signals, concentrated in frontal cortex, from which multiple integrator models’ decision variables could be decoded equally well. These signals reflected key aspects of decision models: they ramped gradually, responded oppositely to time and rewards, were sensitive to patch richness, and retained memory of reward history. Together, these results identify integration via frontal cortex ramping dynamics as a candidate mechanism for solving patch-foraging problems.</p>2025-08-06T21:44:03ZDatasetinfo:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersiondataset10.6084/m9.figshare.29802896.v1https://figshare.com/articles/dataset/Bukwich_Campbell_et_al_Competitive_integration_of_time_and_reward_explains_value-sensitive_foraging_decisions_and_frontal_cortex_ramping_dynamics_Neuron_2025_/29802896CC BY 4.0info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccessoai:figshare.com:article/298028962025-08-06T21:44:03Z |
| spellingShingle | Bukwich*, Campbell* et al. Competitive integration of time and reward explains value-sensitive foraging decisions and frontal cortex ramping dynamics. Neuron, 2025. Malcolm Campbell (21881318) Behavioural ecology Animal neurobiology Central nervous system Computational neuroscience (incl. mathematical neuroscience and theoretical neuroscience) Behavioural neuroscience Decision making foraging patch foraging decision making Marginal value theorem neural integration Neuropixels frontal cortex ramping activity virtual reality latent state |
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| title | Bukwich*, Campbell* et al. Competitive integration of time and reward explains value-sensitive foraging decisions and frontal cortex ramping dynamics. Neuron, 2025. |
| title_full | Bukwich*, Campbell* et al. Competitive integration of time and reward explains value-sensitive foraging decisions and frontal cortex ramping dynamics. Neuron, 2025. |
| title_fullStr | Bukwich*, Campbell* et al. Competitive integration of time and reward explains value-sensitive foraging decisions and frontal cortex ramping dynamics. Neuron, 2025. |
| title_full_unstemmed | Bukwich*, Campbell* et al. Competitive integration of time and reward explains value-sensitive foraging decisions and frontal cortex ramping dynamics. Neuron, 2025. |
| title_short | Bukwich*, Campbell* et al. Competitive integration of time and reward explains value-sensitive foraging decisions and frontal cortex ramping dynamics. Neuron, 2025. |
| title_sort | Bukwich*, Campbell* et al. Competitive integration of time and reward explains value-sensitive foraging decisions and frontal cortex ramping dynamics. Neuron, 2025. |
| topic | Behavioural ecology Animal neurobiology Central nervous system Computational neuroscience (incl. mathematical neuroscience and theoretical neuroscience) Behavioural neuroscience Decision making foraging patch foraging decision making Marginal value theorem neural integration Neuropixels frontal cortex ramping activity virtual reality latent state |