AUTHOR=Paglieri Fabio , Addessi Elsa , De Petrillo Francesca , Laviola Giovanni , Mirolli Marco , Parisi Domenico , Petrosino Giancarlo , Ventricelli Marialba , Zoratto Francesca , Adriani Walter TITLE=Nonhuman gamblers: lessons from rodents, primates, and robots JOURNAL=Frontiers in Behavioral Neuroscience VOLUME=8 YEAR=2014 URL=https://www.frontiersin.org/journals/behavioral-neuroscience/articles/10.3389/fnbeh.2014.00033 DOI=10.3389/fnbeh.2014.00033 ISSN=1662-5153 ABSTRACT=

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.