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The track of a worm in search of food. Purple represents the starting point; red is the end point as well as the peak of the gradient. Like humans with a nose for the best restaurants, roundworms also use their senses of taste and smell to navigate. Now, researchers may have found how a worm's brain does this: It performs calculus.
Worms calculate how much the strength of different tastes is changing — equivalent to the process of taking a derivative in calculus — to figure out if they are on their way toward food or should change direction and look elsewhere, says University of Oregon biologist Shawn Lockery, who thinks humans and other animals do the same thing. http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,389501,00.html " |
1/16/2011 10:10:52 AM |