ArticleNeurocomputing2006
Cycle-to-cycle variability as an optimal behavioral strategy.
Article in Neurocomputing, 2006. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 9 papers.
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9 citing papers in PubMed.
- Modulation by Neuropeptides with Overlapping Targets Results in Functional Overlap in Oscillatory Circuit Activation.The Journal of neuroscience : the official journal of the Society for Neuroscience · 2024Article
- The neuromuscular transform in a single segment of a segmented heart tube.Journal of neurophysiology · 2020Article
- Synaptic mechanisms for motor variability in a feedforward network.Science advances · 2020Article
- Successful and unsuccessful attempts to swallow in a reducedLearning & memory (Cold Spring Harbor, N.Y.) · 2019Article
- Phylogenetic and individual variation in gastropod central pattern generators.Journal of comparative physiology. A, Neuroethology, sensory, neural, and behavioral physiology · 2015Review
- Cycle-by-cycle assembly of respiratory network activity is dynamic and stochastic.Journal of neurophysiology · 2013Article
- Functional organization and adaptability of a decision-making network in aplysia.Frontiers in neuroscience · 2012Article
- Neuromechanics of multifunctionality during rejection in Aplysia californica.The Journal of neuroscience : the official journal of the Society for Neuroscience · 2006Article
- Variability of swallowing performance in intact, freely feeding aplysia.Journal of neurophysiology · 2005Article
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Abstract
Aplysia feeding behavior is highly variable from cycle to cycle. In some cycles, when the variability causes a mismatch between the animal's movements and the requirements of the feeding task, the variability makes the behavior unsuccessful. We propose that the behavior is variable nevertheless because the variability serves a higher-order functional purpose. When the animal is faced with a new and only imperfectly known feeding task in each cycle, the variability implements a trial-and-error search through the space of possible feeding movements. Over many cycles, this may be the animal's optimal strategy in an uncertain and changing feeding environment.
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