title: Nonhuman gamblers: lessons from rodents, primates, and robots.
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.
authors.affiliation: Goal-Oriented Agents Lab (GOAL), Istituto di Scienze e Tecnologie della Cognizione, Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche (ISTC-CNR) Rome, Italy.
authors.forename: Fabio
authors.initials: F
authors.lastname: Paglieri
authors.affiliation: Goal-Oriented Agents Lab (GOAL), Istituto di Scienze e Tecnologie della Cognizione, Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche (ISTC-CNR) Rome, Italy.
authors.forename: Elsa
authors.initials: E
authors.lastname: Addessi
authors.affiliation: Department of Environmental Biology, University of Rome "La Sapienza" Rome, Italy.
authors.forename: Francesca
authors.initials: F
authors.lastname: De Petrillo
authors.affiliation: Department of Cell Biology and Neurosciences, Istituto Superiore di Sanità Rome, Italy.
authors.forename: Giovanni
authors.initials: G
authors.lastname: Laviola
authors.affiliation: Goal-Oriented Agents Lab (GOAL), Istituto di Scienze e Tecnologie della Cognizione, Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche (ISTC-CNR) Rome, Italy.
authors.forename: Marco
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Mirolli
authors.affiliation: Goal-Oriented Agents Lab (GOAL), Istituto di Scienze e Tecnologie della Cognizione, Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche (ISTC-CNR) Rome, Italy.
authors.forename: Domenico
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Parisi
authors.affiliation: Goal-Oriented Agents Lab (GOAL), Istituto di Scienze e Tecnologie della Cognizione, Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche (ISTC-CNR) Rome, Italy.
authors.forename: Giancarlo
authors.initials: G
authors.lastname: Petrosino
authors.affiliation: Department of Environmental Biology, University of Rome "La Sapienza" Rome, Italy.
authors.forename: Marialba
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Ventricelli
authors.affiliation: Department of Cell Biology and Neurosciences, Istituto Superiore di Sanità Rome, Italy ; Bambino Gesù Children's Hospital IRCCS Rome, Italy.
authors.forename: Francesca
authors.initials: F
authors.lastname: Zoratto
authors.affiliation: Department of Cell Biology and Neurosciences, Istituto Superiore di Sanità Rome, Italy.
authors.forename: Walter
authors.initials: W
authors.lastname: Adriani
keywords: animal models; evolutionary models; neurocomputational models; nonhuman primates; pathological gambling; risk sensitivity; uncertain reward