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- Title
Keep Your Options Open: An Information-Based Driving Principle for Sensorimotor Systems.
- Authors
Klyubin, Alexander S.; Polani, Daniel; Nehaniv, Chrystopher L.
- Abstract
The central resource processed by the sensorimotor system of an organism is information. We propose an information-based quantity that allows one to characterize the efficiency of the perception-action loop of an abstract organism model. It measures the potential of the organism to imprint information on the environment via its actuators in a way that can be recaptured by its sensors, essentially quantifying the options available and visible to the organism. Various scenarios suggest that such a quantity could identify the preferred direction of evolution or adaptation of the sensorimotor loop of organisms.
- Subjects
SENSORIMOTOR cortex; ORGANISMS; ACTUATORS; DETECTORS; INFORMATION resources; LOOPING (Education)
- Publication
PLoS ONE, 2008, Vol 3, Issue 12, p1
- ISSN
1932-6203
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1371/journal.pone.0004018