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Neuroethology of releasing mechanisms: Prey-catching in toads

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  04 February 2010

Jörg-Peter Ewert
Jörg-Peter Ewert
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Neuroethology Department, University of Kassel, D-3500 Kassel, Federal Republic of Germany
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Abstract

“Sign stimuli” elicit specific patterns of behavior when an organism's motivation is appropriate. In the toad, visually released prey-catching involves orienting toward the prey, approaching, fixating, and snapping. For these action patterns to be selected and released, the prey must be recognized and localized in space. Toads discriminate prey from nonprey by certain spatiotemporal stimulus features. The stimulus-response relations are mediated by innate releasing mechanisms (RMs) with recognition properties partly modifiable by experience. Striato-pretecto-tectal connectivity determines the RM's recognition and localization properties, whereas medialpallio-thalamo-tectal circuitry makes the system sensitive to changes in internal state and to prior history of exposure to stimuli. RMs encode the diverse stimulus conditions referring to the same prey object through different combinations of “specialized” tectal neurons, involving cells selectively tuned to prey features. The prey-selective neurons express the outcome of information processing in functional units consisting of interconnected cells. Excitatory and inhibitory interactions among feature-sensitive tectal and pretectal neurons specify the perceptual operations involved in distinguishing the prey from its background, selecting its features, and discriminating it from predators. Other connections indicate stimulus location. The results of these analyses are transmitted by specialized neurons projecting from the tectum to bulbar/spinal motor systems, providing a sensorimotor interface. Specific combinations of such projective neurons – mediating feature- and space-related messages – form “command releasing systems” that activate corresponding motor pattern generators for appropriate prey-catching action patterns.

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action patternscommand systemsconnectionist networksfeature analysisneuroethologyneuromodulationprey capturereleasing mechanismssensorimotor interfacesign stimulitoadvision
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Behavioral and Brain Sciences , Volume 10 , Issue 3 , September 1987 , pp. 337 - 368
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1987

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