Perception-driven dynamics of mimicry based on attractor field model

Result code in IS VaVaI

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Alternative codes found

RIV/00216208:11310/21:10429762

Result on the web

<a href="https://verso.is.cuni.cz/pub/verso.fpl?fname=obd_publikace_handle&handle=WNVT6M9uK3" target="_blank" >https://verso.is.cuni.cz/pub/verso.fpl?fname=obd_publikace_handle&handle=WNVT6M9uK3</a>

DOI - Digital Object Identifier

<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1098/rsfs.2020.0052" target="_blank" >10.1098/rsfs.2020.0052</a>

Result language

angličtina

Original language name

Perception-driven dynamics of mimicry based on attractor field model

Original language description

We provide a formal account of an interface that bridges two different levels of dynamic processes manifested by mimicry: prey-prey interactions and predators&apos; perception. Mimicry is a coevolutionary process between an animate selective agent and at least two similar organisms selected by agent&apos;s perception-driven actions. Attractor field model explains perceived similarity of forms by noting that in both human and animal cognition, morphologically intermediate forms are more likely to be perceived as belonging to rare rather than abundant forms. We formalize this model in terms of predators&apos; perception space deformation using numerical simulations and argue that the probability of confusion between similar species creates pressure on the perception space, which in turn leads to inflation of regions of perception space with high density of species representations. Such inflation causes increased discrimination between species by a predator, which implies that adaptive mimicry could initially emerge more easily among atypical species because they do not need the same level of similarity to the model. We provide a theoretical instrument to conceptualize interdependence between objective measurable matrices and perceived matrices of the same external reality. We believe that our framework leads to a more precise understanding of the evolution of mimicry.

Czech name

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Czech description

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Type

J_imp - Article in a specialist periodical, which is included in the Web of Science database

CEP classification

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OECD FORD branch

10700 - Other natural sciences

Project

<a href="/en/project/GA20-16633S" target="_blank" >GA20-16633S: Contemporary Philosophy of Biology: Organism as an Agent</a><br>

Continuities

I - Institucionalni podpora na dlouhodoby koncepcni rozvoj vyzkumne organizace

Publication year

2021

Confidentiality

S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů

Name of the periodical

Interface Focus

ISSN

2042-8898

e-ISSN

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Volume of the periodical

11

Issue of the periodical within the volume

3

Country of publishing house

GB - UNITED KINGDOM

Number of pages

13

Pages from-to

20200052

UT code for WoS article

000642004200007

EID of the result in the Scopus database

2-s2.0-85105333642