The role of noise in self-organized decision making by the true slime mold Physarum polycephalum.

Self-organized mechanisms are frequently encountered in nature and known to achieve flexible, adaptive control and decision-making. Noise plays a crucial role in such systems: It can enable a self-organized system to reliably adapt to short-term changes in the environment while maintaining a general...

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Main Authors: Bernd Meyer, Cedrick Ansorge, Toshiyuki Nakagaki
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2017-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC5371312?pdf=render