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The project investigates decision-making processes in starlings, challenging the assumption that animals evaluate options based on alternatives. It tests a new model predicting behavior based on individual encounters rather than comparative evaluations.
Introspection often creates the perception that our decisions are driven by the evaluation of each alternative, and as a consequence we assume that animals also choose by evaluating alternatives.
If this were true, choosing would take information-processing effort and time: more options, more time.
However, in starlings, this pattern does not hold.
The Sequential Choice Model (SCM) was proposed to deal with this curious finding.
Its main feature is that it predicts behaviour in choice situations…
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