The value of asymmetric signal processing in klinokinesis
Tóm tắt
Klinokinesis is a behavioral mechanism in which an organism moves toward or away from a stimulus source by altering its frequency of change of direction without biasing its turns with respect to the stimulus field. Previous studies of a variety of organisms have demonstrated that rates of adaptation (or other information processing features) for increases and decreases in stimulus intensity are often very different from one another. In order to determine if such asymmetric signal processing could improve the efficiency of klinokinesis, computer modeling studies were performed. The model involved a simple generic version of klinokinesis in 2 dimensions with the rate of adaptation for increasing intensity varied independently of the rate for decreasing intensity. The effects of three types of noise that limit the performance of the model were tested-intensity noise, motor noise, and developmental noise. The results demonstrated that, with all three types of noise, the two adaptation rates had quite different effects on efficiency. The overall pattern of effects was different for each type of noise. In the cases of intensity noise and motor noise, the optimum combination of adaptation rates had a 3-to 5-fold higher rate for decreases in attractant than for increases, which is similar to what has previously been found with bacteria and nematodes.
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