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Alex Kacelnik
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Risky Theories—The Effects of Variance on Foraging Decisions
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The value of a smile: Game theory with a human face
2001 · 458 citations
Flexibility in Problem Solving and Tool Use of Kea and New Caledonian Crows in a Multi Access Box Paradigm
2011 · 255 citations
Development of tool use in New Caledonian crows: inherited action patterns and social influences
2006 · 246 citations
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Testing cognitive models of decision-making: selected studies with starlings
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Paradoxical choice and the reinforcing value of information
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Choosing fast and simply: Construction of preferences by starlings through parallel option valuation
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Compound tool construction by New Caledonian crows
Scientific Reports
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Midsession reversal task with pigeons: Parallel processing of alternatives explains choices.
Journal of Experimental Psychology Animal Learning and Cognition
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Paradoxical choice in rats: Subjective valuation and mechanism of choice
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On the structure and role of optimality models in the study of behavior.
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Ducklings imprint on the relational concept of “same or different”
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Irrational choice and the value of information
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Combinatory actions during object play in psittaciformes (Diopsittaca nobilis, Pionites melanocephala, Cacatua goffini) and corvids (Corvus corax, C. monedula, C. moneduloides).
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Social transmission of tool use and tool manufacture in Goffin cockatoos (Cacatua goffini)
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Explorative Learning and Functional Inferences on a Five-Step Means-Means-End Problem in Goffin’s Cockatoos (Cacatua goffini)
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Context-Dependent Preferences in Starlings: Linking Ecology, Foraging and Choice
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Starlings uphold principles of economic rationality for delay and probability of reward
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Experimental studies in simple choice behaviour
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Decision Making: What Can Evolution Do for Us?
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Spontaneous innovation in tool manufacture and use in a Goffin’s cockatoo
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The Ecological Significance of Tool Use in New Caledonian Crows
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Tool use by wild New Caledonian crowsCorvus moneduloidesat natural foraging sites
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Choice in multi-alternative environments: A trial-by-trial implementation of the Sequential Choice Model
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Context-dependent utility overrides absolute memory as a determinant of choice
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2009
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The Role of Experience in Problem Solving and Innovative Tool Use in Crows
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Cognitive Processes Associated with Sequential Tool Use in New Caledonian Crows
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Simultaneous and sequential choice as a function of reward delay and magnitude: Normative, descriptive and process-based models tested in the European starling (Sturnus vulgaris).
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Video Cameras on Wild Birds
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Choice processes in multialternative decision making
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Tool manufacture by naive juvenile crows
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State-Dependent Decisions Cause Apparent Violations of Rationality in Animal Choice
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Selection of tool diameter by New Caledonian crows Corvus moneduloides
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Rationality in risk-sensitive foraging choices by starlings
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Tool selectivity in a non-primate, the New Caledonian crow ( Corvus moneduloides )
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Framing effects and risky decisions in starlings
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Cost can increase preference in starlings
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Timing and Foraging: Gibbon's Scalar Expectancy Theory and Optimal Patch Exploitation
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Why and when do simple heuristics work
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Group Report: Why and When Do Simple Heuristics Works?
Cadmus - EUI Research Repository (European University Institute)
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Normative and descriptive models of decision making: time discounting and risk sensitivity
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2000
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Risky Choice and Weber's Law
Journal of Theoretical Biology
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1998
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Risk-sensitivity: crossroads for theories of decision-making
Trends in Cognitive Sciences
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1997
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Risky Theories—The Effects of Variance on Foraging Decisions
American Zoologist
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Rate currencies and the foraging starling: the fallacy of the averages revisited
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1996
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PREFERENCES FOR FIXED AND VARIABLE FOOD SOURCES: VARIABILITY IN AMOUNT AND DELAY
Journal of the Experimental Analysis of Behavior
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1995
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