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J Comp Physiol A Neuroethol Sens Neural Behav Physiol

Title:		Insect-machine hybrid system for understanding and evaluating sensory-motor control by sex pheromone in Bombyx mori
Author(s):		Kanzaki R; Minegishi R; Namiki S; Ando N;
Address:		"Research Center for Advanced Science and Technology, The University of Tokyo, 4-6-1 Meguro-ku, Tokyo, 153-8904, Japan, kanzaki@rcast.u-tokyo.ac.jp"
Journal Title:		J Comp Physiol A Neuroethol Sens Neural Behav Physiol
Year:		2013
Volume:		20130608
Issue:		11
Page Number:		1037 - 1052
DOI:		10.1007/s00359-013-0832-8
ISSN/ISBN:		1432-1351 (Electronic) 0340-7594 (Linking)
Abstract:		"To elucidate the dynamic information processing in a brain underlying adaptive behavior, it is necessary to understand the behavior and corresponding neural activities. This requires animals which have clear relationships between behavior and corresponding neural activities. Insects are precisely such animals and one of the adaptive behaviors of insects is high-accuracy odor source orientation. The most direct way to know the relationships between neural activity and behavior is by recording neural activities in a brain from freely behaving insects. There is also a method to give stimuli mimicking the natural environment to tethered insects allowing insects to walk or fly at the same position. In addition to these methods an 'insect-machine hybrid system' is proposed, which is another experimental system meeting the conditions necessary for approaching the dynamic processing in the brain of insects for generating adaptive behavior. This insect-machine hybrid system is an experimental system which has a mobile robot as its body. The robot is controlled by the insect through its behavior or the neural activities recorded from the brain. As we can arbitrarily control the motor output of the robot, we can intervene at the relationship between the insect and the environmental conditions"
Keywords:		"Adaptation, Physiological/drug effects Animals *Bombyx Brain/*cytology/drug effects Female Male Models, Biological Movement/*drug effects/physiology Neurons/drug effects/*physiology Odorants Pheromones/*pharmacology Robotics/instrumentation/methods *Syste;"
Notes:		"MedlineKanzaki, Ryohei Minegishi, Ryo Namiki, Shigehiro Ando, Noriyasu eng Review Germany 2013/06/12 J Comp Physiol A Neuroethol Sens Neural Behav Physiol. 2013 Nov; 199(11):1037-52. doi: 10.1007/s00359-013-0832-8. Epub 2013 Jun 8"