Simulating how animals learn: a new modelling framework applied to the process of optimal foraging

no code implementations • 25 Aug 2022 • Peter R. Thompson, Melodie Kunegel-Lion, Mark A. Lewis

SDT effectively explains many learning tasks in animals, but extending this theory to predict how animals will learn in changing environments still poses a challenge for ecologists.

Bayesian Inference

Detecting seasonal episodic-like spatiotemporal memory patterns using animal movement modelling

no code implementations • 11 Jan 2021 • Peter R. Thompson, Andrew E. Derocher, Mark A. Edwards, Mark A. Lewis

Here we describe a model that accounts for the memory of seasonal or ephemeral qualities of an animal's environment.

Model Selection