Discovery Projects - Grant ID: DP0558038

Funding Activity

Website
http://dataportal.arc.gov.au/NCGP/Web/Grant/Grant/DP0558038

Funding Status
Closed

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Funded Activity Summary

To flee or not to flee: surviving on incomplete information. Even lowly animals, like the Australian fiddler crabs we will be investigating, are surprisingly competent in making the right decisions in complex situations. They actively acquire information and make good use of it to assure their immediate safety and their long term gains. Animals are exquisitely honed by evolution and we would benefit greatly by understanding what makes them so competent: on a theoretical level, we may learn about efficient rules of good decision making and on a practical level, we may be able to design more flexible, robust and clever machines. Besides being useful in this wider context, the results of our research will thus also contribute to a new and 'sophisticated' appreciation of the cognitive design of animal.

Funded Activity Details

Start Date: 01-01-2005

End Date: 31-12-2007

Funding Scheme: Discovery Projects

Funding Amount: $270,000.00

Funder: Australian Research Council

Research Topics

ANZSRC Field of Research (FoR)

Sensory Systems | Sociobiology And Behavioural Ecology | Systems Theory | Neurosciences

ANZSRC Socio-Economic Objective (SEO)

Behavioural and cognitive sciences | Higher education | Biological sciences |

Other Keywords

Behavioural and cognitive sciences | Biological sciences | Higher education | Neurosciences | Sensory Systems | Sociobiology And Behavioural Ecology | Systems Theory

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