Active sensing: matching motor and sensory space.
A recent study has shown that, unusually, both the sensory and motor capabilities of an electric fish are omnidirectional. This matching of motor and sensory spaces helps the fish to hunt prey efficiently - particularly important given their energetically costly active sensory system.
Schuster
Stefan
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Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg, Institut für Zoologie II, Staudtstr. 5, D-91058 Erlangen, Germany. sschuste@biologie.uni-erlangen.de
D000818:Animals; D001070:Appetitive Behavior / Q000502:physiology*; D003621:Daphnia; D023702:Gymnotiformes / Q000502:physiology*; D012679:Sense Organs / Q000502:physiology*; D013037:Spatial Behavior / Q000502:physiology*