Control over patch encounters changes foraging behavior

Summary Foraging is a common decision problem in natural environments. When new exploitable sites are always available, simple optimal strategy to leave current site when its return falls below single average reward rate. Here, we examined foraging more structured environment, with limited number of that replenished at different rates and had be revisited. participants could choose sites, they visited fast-replenishing often, left higher levels reward, achieved net Decisions exploit-or-leave were best explained computational model included both the rate for environment information about unattended sites. This suggests influence decisions, environments where can