期刊
PROCEEDINGS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES
卷 267, 期 1453, 页码 1633-1639出版社
ROYAL SOC
DOI: 10.1098/rspb.2000.1189
关键词
animal communication; mate recognition; neuroethology; phylogenetic methods; sensory bias; sexual selection
资金
- NIMH NIH HHS [F31 MH11194] Funding Source: Medline
Animals often attend to only a few of the cues provided by the complex displays of conspecifics. We suggest that these perceptual biases are influenced by mechanisms of signal recognition inherited from antecedent species. We tested this hypothesis by manipulating the evolutionary history of artificial neural networks, observing how the resulting networks respond to many novel stimuli and comparing these responses to the behaviour of females in phonotaxis experiments. Networks with different evolutionary histories proved equally capable of evolving to recognize the call of the tungara frog, Physalaemus pustulosus, but exhibited distinct responses to novel stimuli. History influenced the ability of networks to predict known responses of tungara frogs; network accuracy was determined by how closely the network history approximated the hypothesized history of the tungara frog. Our findings emphasize the influence of past selection pressures on current perceptual mechanisms, and demonstrate holy neural network models can be used to address behavioural questions that are intractable through traditional methods.
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