ReviewPhilosophical transactions of the Royal Society of London. Series B, Biological sciences2011
Active touch in orthopteroid insects: behaviours, multisensory substrates and evolution.
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- Bio-inspired cross-modal super-additive plasticity for seamless visual processing-in-sensory and -in-memory.Nature communications · 2025Article
- Encoding of antennal position and velocity by the Johnston's organ in hawkmoths.The Journal of experimental biology · 2025Article
- Dendritic CaJournal of neurophysiology · 2018Article
- Behavioural integration of auditory and antennal stimulation during phonotaxis in the field cricket Gryllus bimaculatus.The Journal of experimental biology · 2016Article
- Brain-Computer Interface Controlled Cyborg: Establishing a Functional Information Transfer Pathway from Human Brain to Cockroach Brain.PloS one · 2016Article
- Behavioral response to antennal tactile stimulation in the field cricket Gryllus bimaculatus.Journal of comparative physiology. A, Neuroethology, sensory, neural, and behavioral physiology · 2012Article
- Active touch sensing.Philosophical transactions of the Royal Society of London. Series B, Biological sciences · 2011Article
- The neurobiology of Etruscan shrew active touch.Philosophical transactions of the Royal Society of London. Series B, Biological sciences · 2011Review
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Abstract
Orthopteroid insects (cockroaches, crickets, locusts and related species) allow examination of active sensory processing in a comparative framework. Some orthopteroids possess long, mobile antennae endowed with many chemo- and mechanoreceptors. When the antennae are touched, an animal's response depends upon the identity of the stimulus. For example, contact with a predator may lead to escape, but contact with a conspecific may usually not. Active touch of an approaching object influences the likelihood that a discrimination of identity will be made. Using cockroaches, we have identified specific descending mechanosensory interneurons that trigger antennal-mediated escape. Crucial sensory input to these cells comes from chordotonal organs within the antennal base. However, information from other receptors on the base or the long antennal flagellum allows active touch to modulate escape probability based on stimulus identity. This is conveyed, at least to some extent, by textural information. Guidance of the antennae in active exploration depends on visual information. Some of the visual interneurons and the motor neurons necessary for visuomotor control have been identified. Comparisons across Orthoptera suggest an evolutionary model where subtle changes in the architecture of interneurons, and of sensorimotor control loops, may explain differing levels of vision-touch interaction in the active guidance of behaviour.
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