Center for Adaptive Rationality, Max Planck Institute for Human Development Berlin, Germany.
Front Neurosci. 2013 Apr 17;7:53. doi: 10.3389/fnins.2013.00053. eCollection 2013.
Does foraging change across the life span, and in particular, with aging? We report data from two foraging tasks used to investigate age differences in search in external environments as well as internal search in memory. Overall, the evidence suggests that foraging behavior may undergo significant changes across the life span across internal and external search. In particular, we find evidence of a trend toward reduced exploration with increased age. We discuss these findings in light of theories that postulate a link between aging and reductions in novelty seeking and exploratory behavior.
觅食行为是否会随着生命周期的变化而变化，特别是随着年龄的增长而变化？我们报告了两项觅食任务的数据，这些任务用于研究外部环境中的搜索和内部记忆中的搜索的年龄差异。总的来说，证据表明，觅食行为可能会随着内部和外部搜索的生命周期而发生重大变化。特别是，我们发现了随着年龄的增长探索行为减少的趋势。我们根据那些假设衰老与寻求新奇和探索性行为减少之间存在联系的理论来讨论这些发现。
