Evans, DA;
Stempel, AV;
Vale, R;
Branco, T;
(2019)
Cognitive Control of Escape Behaviour.
Trends in Cognitive Sciences
, 23
(4)
pp. 334-348.
10.1016/j.tics.2019.01.012.
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Abstract
When faced with potential predators, animals instinctively decide whether there is a threat they should escape from, and also when, how, and where to take evasive action. While escape is often viewed in classical ethology as an action that is released upon presentation of specific stimuli, successful and adaptive escape behaviour relies on integrating information from sensory systems, stored knowledge, and internal states. From a neuroscience perspective, escape is an incredibly rich model that provides opportunities for investigating processes such as perceptual and value-based decision-making, or action selection, in an ethological setting. We review recent research from laboratory and field studies that explore, at the behavioural and mechanistic levels, how elements from multiple information streams are integrated to generate flexible escape behaviour.
| Type: | Article |
|---|---|
| Title: | Cognitive Control of Escape Behaviour |
| Open access status: | An open access version is available from UCL Discovery |
| DOI: | 10.1016/j.tics.2019.01.012 |
| Publisher version: | https://doi.org/10.1016/j.tics.2019.01.012 |
| Language: | English |
| Additional information: | © 2019 Elsevier Ltd. This is an open access article under the CC BY license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/). |
| Keywords: | instinctive decisions, defence, threat, behavioural flexibility |
| UCL classification: | UCL UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Life and Medical Sciences UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Life and Medical Sciences > Faculty of Life Sciences UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Life and Medical Sciences > Faculty of Life Sciences > The Sainsbury Wellcome Centre |
| URI: | https://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/10073071 |
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