ArticleeLife2020
Tuning movement for sensing in an uncertain world.
Article in eLife, 2020. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 12 papers.
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12 citing papers in PubMed.
- Active Sensing Subserves Task-Level Control.ArXiv · 2026Article
- Making sense of vertebrate senses from a neural crest and cranial placode evo-devo perspective.Trends in neurosciences · 2025Review
- Moving in an Uncertain World: Robust and Adaptive Control of Locomotion from Organisms to Machine Intelligence.Integrative and comparative biology · 2024Review
- Active sampling as an information seeking strategy in primate vocal interactions.Communications biology · 2024Article
- Sound-seeking before and after hearing loss in mice.Scientific reports · 2024Article
- Sound-seeking before and after hearing loss in mice.bioRxiv : the preprint server for biology · 2024Article
- Active Sampling in Primate Vocal Interactions.bioRxiv : the preprint server for biology · 2023Article
- Active smelling in the American cockroach.The Journal of experimental biology · 2023Article
- Mechanical intelligence for learning embodied sensor-object relationships.Nature communications · 2022Article
- A mechanism for punctuating equilibria during mammalian vocal development.PLoS computational biology · 2022Article
- Formalizing planning and information search in naturalistic decision-making.Nature neuroscience · 2021Review
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Abstract
While animals track or search for targets, sensory organs make small unexplained movements on top of the primary task-related motions. While multiple theories for these movements exist-in that they support infotaxis, gain adaptation, spectral whitening, and high-pass filtering-predicted trajectories show poor fit to measured trajectories. We propose a new theory for these movements called energy-constrained proportional betting, where the probability of moving to a location is proportional to an expectation of how informative it will be balanced against the movement's predicted energetic cost. Trajectories generated in this way show good agreement with measured trajectories of fish tracking an object using electrosense, a mammal and an insect localizing an odor source, and a moth tracking a flower using vision. Our theory unifies the metabolic cost of motion with information theory. It predicts sense organ movements in animals and can prescribe sensor motion for robots to enhance performance.
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