title: Kanizsa illusory contours appearing in the plasmodium pattern of Physarum polycephalum.
abstract: The plasmodium of Physarum polycephalum is often used in the implementation of non-linear computation to solve optimization problems, and this organismal feature was not used in this analysis to compute perception and/or sensation in humans. In this paper, we focused on the Kanizsa illusion, which is a well-known visual illusion resulting from the differentiation-integration of the visual field, and compared the illusion with the adaptive network in the plasmodium of P. polycephalum. We demonstrated that the network pattern mimicking the Kanizsa illusion can be produced by an asynchronous automata-fashioned model of the foraging slime mold and by the real plasmodia of P. polycephalum. Because the protoplasm of the plasmodium is transported depending on both local and global computation, it may contain differentiation-integration processes. In this sense, we can extend the idea of perception and computation.
authors.affiliation: Department of Earth and Planetary Science, Graduate School of Science, Kobe University Kobe, Japan.
authors.forename: Iori
authors.initials: I
authors.lastname: Tani
authors.affiliation: Department of Earth and Planetary Science, Graduate School of Science, Kobe University Kobe, Japan.
authors.forename: Masaki
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Yamachiyo
authors.affiliation: Department of Computer Science, School of Electrical and Computer Engineering, National Defense Academy of Japan Yokosuka, Japan.
authors.forename: Tomohiro
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Shirakawa
authors.affiliation: Department of Earth and Planetary Science, Graduate School of Science, Kobe University Kobe, Japan ; The Unconventional Computing Centre, University of the West England Bristol, UK.
authors.forename: Yukio-Pegio
authors.initials: YP
authors.lastname: Gunji
mesh_terms: D003198:Computer Simulation; D006801:Humans; D008853:Microscopy; D061848:Optical Imaging; D016839:Physarum polycephalum / Q000254:growth & development / Q000502:physiology*
keywords: Kanizsa illusion; Physarum; asynchronous automata; unconventional computing