Interval Timing and Optimal Foraging

Optimal foraging, the marginal value theorem

1976 • 5,081 citations

On aims and methods of Ethology

1963 • 4,190 citations

Scalar expectancy theory and Weber's law in animal timing.

1977 • 2,040 citations

Scalar Timing in Memory

1984 • 1,711 citations

Risky Theories—The Effects of Variance on Foraging Decisions

1996 • 567 citations

Neuropsychological mechanisms of interval timing behavior

2000 • 504 citations

A TWO‐STATE ANALYSIS OF FIXED‐INTERVAL RESPONDING IN THE PIGEON¹

1969 • 347 citations

Prey selection and the search strategy of the spotted flycatcher (Muscicapa striata): A field study on optimal foraging

1977 • 319 citations

Central Place Foraging in Starlings (Sturnus vulgaris). I. Patch Residence Time

1984 • 300 citations

The origins of cognitive thought.

1989 • 214 citations

Risk-sensitivity: ambient temperature affects foraging choice

1990 • 184 citations

Scalar expectancy theory and choice between delayed rewards.

1988 • 179 citations

On economically tracking a variable environment

1987 • 179 citations

Trapline Foraging by Hermit Hummingbirds: Competition for an Undefended, Renewable Resource

1988 • 175 citations

Rate currencies and the foraging starling: the fallacy of the averages revisited

1996 • 154 citations

PREFERENCES FOR FIXED AND VARIABLE FOOD SOURCES: VARIABILITY IN AMOUNT AND DELAY

1995 • 141 citations

The comparative psychology of fixed-interval responding: Some quantitative analyses

1991 • 123 citations

Tracking a fluctuating environment: a study of sampling

1988 • 116 citations

Risky Choice and Weber's Law

1998 • 113 citations

Optimal foraging and timing processes in the starling, Sturnus vulgaris: effect of inter-capture interval

1992 • 107 citations

Conference

1999 • 103 citations

Time's causes

1997 • 98 citations

Risk sensitivity in starlings: variability in food amount and food delay

1991 • 88 citations

A general version of optimal foraging theory: The effect of simultaneous encounters

1984 • 76 citations

Chapter 10 How time flies: Functional and neural mechanisms of interval timing

1997 • 75 citations

Timing and Foraging: Gibbon's Scalar Expectancy Theory and Optimal Patch Exploitation

2002 • 67 citations

Contrasting interference functions and foraging dispersion in two species of shorebird (Charadrii)

2000 • 60 citations

Psychological mechanisms and the Marginal Value Theorem: effect of variability in travel time on patch exploitation

1992 • 59 citations

Reinforcement-induced within-trial resetting of an internal clock

1999 • 52 citations

Accuracy of memory for amount in the foraging starling,Sturnus vulgaris

1995 • 51 citations

Psychological mechanisms and the Marginal Value Theorem: dynamics of scalar memory for travel time

1993 • 41 citations

Timing Mechanisms in Optimal Foraging: Some Applications of Scalar Expectancy Theory

1990 • 41 citations

Chapter 3 Time's causes

1997 • 41 citations

Memory for inter-reinforcement interval variability and patch departure decisions in the starling,

1996 • 32 citations

Mnemonics for variability: Remembering food delay.

1997 • 27 citations

Mnemonics for variability: Remembering food delay.

1997 • 25 citations

Optimal Foraging: The Importance of Environmental Stochasticity and Accuracy in Parameter Estimation

1993 • 20 citations

Chapter 2 Timing and temporal search

1997 • 12 citations