Energy-Information Trade-Offs between Movement and Sensing

While there is accumulating evidence for the importance of the metabolic cost of information in sensory systems, how these costs are traded-off with movement when sensing is closely linked to movement is poorly understood. For example, if an animal needs to search a given amount of space beyond the...

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Main Authors: Shirgaonkar, Anup (Contributor), MacIver, Malcolm A. (Author), Patankar, Neelesh A. (Author)
Other Authors: Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Mechanical Engineering (Contributor)
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science, 2010-12-22T19:52:07Z.
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