A Neural Filter for Electrolocation in Weakly Electric Fish
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The weakly electric fish have the electric organ to generate the electric field and electrosensory mechanism to read the change of electric field with their electroreceptors. The electric organ produce a waveform of electric field as their electric organ discharge (EOD). Their active electrolocation system can detect the distortion of the self-generated electric field, which is caused by a target object, and estimate the position of a target object. In this paper, we suggest a hypothesis that the periodic EOD signals are involved to extract localization features from noisy electrosensory signals and then provide a possible neural network to process the noise-filtering to obtain the accurate information of a target position. The neural network has sinusoidal weights to process a time series of sensor readings for each electroreceptor.
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