Forgetting curve of cricket, Gryllus bimaculatus, derived by using serotonin hypothesis

  • Authors:

  • Shiro Yano;Yusuke Ikemoto;Hitoshi Aonuma;Hajime Asama

  • Affiliations:

  • Department of Precision Engineering, The University of Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan;Department of Mechanical and Intellectual Systems Engineering, University of Toyama, Toyama, Japan;Research Institute for Electronic Science, Hokkaido University, Hokkaido, Japan;Department of Precision Engineering, The University of Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan

  • Venue:
  • Robotics and Autonomous Systems
  • Year:
  • 2012

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Abstract

It is thought that the adjustment of intraspecific aggression is an essential factor in the development of a social structure. To understand the natural laws for organizing the social structure, we focus on the fighting behavior of crickets, Gryllus bimaculatus, and investigate the neuronal mechanisms to adjust aggressiveness associated with a neuromodulatory biological amine: serotonin (5-HT). In this paper, we present a working theory of a neurophysiological mechanism based on the past biological studies on the 5-HT hypothesis, and a mathematical model of the mechanism. We analyzed this model and concluded that this neurophysiological mechanism makes the forgetting process slower. Next, we fitted our theoretical forgetting curve to an experimental curve and estimated the parameters of our model. These estimated values were in agreement with common belief in biological science.