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Stochastic resonance enhances the electrosensory information available to paddlefish for prey capture
P E Greenwood1, L M Ward, D F Russell
1Department of Mathematics, Peter Wall Institute for Advanced Studies, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada.
Physical Review Letters
|September 16, 2000
Abstract:
Recent behavior experiments have demonstrated that paddlefish can make use of stochastic resonance while feeding on Daphnia plankton. Here we calculate the information content of the noisy Daphnia signal at the paddlefish rostrum using an exact statistical treatment of threshold stochastic resonance as a minimal neural model. These calculations compare well with experimentally obtained data on paddlefish strikes at Daphnia prey.