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: Malcolm A MacIver, Neelesh A Patankar, Anup A Shirgaonkar
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2010-05-01
Series:PLoS Computational Biology
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC2865506?pdf=render