Rana computatrix: progress report, 1984.
This paper describes an approach to analyzing mechanisms of visuomotor coordination that is twofold: top-down, to offer a coordinated control program of interacting schemata (functional units, underlying behavior, which can be activated in different combinations) to achieve behavior noted by neuroethologists; and bottom-up, to provide detailed models of neural networks that are consistent with known anatomy and physiology, but that involve additional assumptions, amenable to experimental testing, to yield a network capable of exhibiting appropriate behavior. Rana computatrix, an evolving series of models of frog and toad visuomotor coordination, is described.
D000818:Animals; D001001:Anura / Q000502:physiology*; D003201:Computers; D008962:Models, Theoretical; D009415:Nerve Net / Q000502:physiology; D011235:Predatory Behavior / Q000502:physiology; D013477:Superior Colliculi / Q000502:physiology; D014796:Visual Perception / Q000502:physiology*