Maximally informative foraging by Caenorhabditis elegans

eLife

Volumn 2014, Issue 3, 2014, Pages 1-13

  Calhoun, Adam J ^a,b   Chalasani, Sreekanth H ^a,b   Sharpee, Tatyana O ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b SALK INSTITUTE FOR BIOLOGICAL STUDIES   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; BAYES THEOREM; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; CHEMOTAXIS; DECISION MAKING; EXPLORATORY BEHAVIOR; FEEDING BEHAVIOR; FORAGING; MATHEMATICAL ANALYSIS; MATHEMATICAL MODEL; MOVEMENT PERCEPTION; NEUROANATOMY; NONHUMAN; SPATIAL ORIENTATION;

ANIMALIA; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS;

EID: 84927928238     PISSN: None     EISSN: 2050084X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.7554/eLife.04220.001     Document Type: Article

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