Bursts and Heavy Tails in Temporal and Sequential Dynamics of Foraging Decisions
Figure 3
Sequential features of the empirical choice patterns.
(A) A trial-dependent change of run lengths for one example rat is shown both for all runs together and separated by rank. Short runs are frequent while a few long runs are intermittently observed. (B) Cumulative distribution of runs longer than a given length of run in a log-log scale for one example rat (subject 5). The cumulative run distribution of the empirical data compared to randomly shuffled data with no trial-by-trial dependencies. (C) Cumulative run distribution of each rank for the same rat (subject 5). (D) The hazard rate for ending a run with respect to the number of preceding choices in a run averaged over all rats.