Publications [#288097] of John E. Staddon
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- Gendron, RP; Staddon, JER, A laboratory simulation of foraging behavior: the effect of search rate on the probability of detecting prey.,
American Naturalist, vol. 124 no. 3
(January, 1984),
pp. 407-415, University of Chicago Press [Gateway.cgi], [doi] .
(last updated on 2025/03/09)Abstract:
Human subjects searched for a target character ("prey') among an array of background characters displayed on the screen of a small computer. The search rate was controlled by changing the display duration while prey crypticity was varied by changing the background. The results of these experiments provide support for a model we previously developed to elucidate the behavior of predators searching for cryptic prey. -from Authors