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Professor Alasdair Houston
Professor of Theoretical Biology
Professor Alasdair Houston
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Professor Alasdair Houston
MA, DPhil(Oxon)
Professor of Theoretical Biology
Area of research
Behavioural Biology
Office C70, C72
University of Bristol,
Woodland Road,
Bristol
BS8 1UG
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Tel. +44 (0) 117 928 7481
a.i.houston@bristol.ac.uk
Research summary
Theoretical work on:
- Trade-off between gaining energy & avoiding predators
- Rationality
- Co-operation and conflict
- Learning
- Daily and annual routines of behaviour
- Analysis of life history patterns
- Behavioural ecology of diving
- Parental ...
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Latest publications
- McNamara, JM, Fawcett, TW & Houston, AI 2013, ‘An adaptive response to uncertainty generates positive and negative contrast effects’. Science, vol 340., pp. 1084-1086
- Mallpress, DEW, Fawcett, TW, McNamara, JM & Houston, AI 2012, ‘Comparing pleasure and pain: the fundamental mathematical equivalence of reward gain and shock reduction under variable interval schedules’. Journal of the experimental analysis of behavior, vol 98., pp. 355-367
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