Nonhuman gamblers: lessons from rodents, primates, and robots

The search for neuronal and psychological underpinnings of pathological gambling in humans would benefit from investigating related phenomena also outside of our species. In this paper, we present a survey of studies in three widely different populations of agents, namely rodents, non-human primates, and robots. Each of these populations offers valuable and complementary insights on the topic, as the literature demonstrates. In addition, we highlight the deep and complex connections between relevant results across these different areas of research (i.e., cognitive and computational neuroscience, neuroethology, cognitive primatology, neuropsychiatry, evolutionary robotics), to make the case for a greater degree of methodological integration in future studies on pathological gambling.

• Publication year

  2014

• Venue

  Frontiers in Behavioral Neuroscience

• Publication date

  2014-02-11

• Fields of study

  Medicine, Computer Science, Psychology

• Identifiers
  DOI 10.3389/fnbeh.2014.00033PMID 24574984PMCID 3920650
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  Open on Semantic Scholar

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  Semantic Scholar, PubMed

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