Angela Renton attended the Mechanistic Basis of Foraging Conference in Birmingham (November 3-5). She presented a poster on her computational modelling work showing that perceptual decision-making relies more strongly upon the statistical regularities defining hidden environmental states during lapses in sustained attention. The multidisciplinary conference showcased work from fields spanning computational, behavioural, and cognitive neuroscience, psychiatry, ecology, and ethology, with the shared goal of exploring mechanistic models of decision-making from an ecologically valid perspective.