Side-Dominance of Periplaneta americana Persists Through Antenna Amputation

Cooper, Rodrigo; Nudo, Nicholas; González, Jorge M.; Vinson, S. Bradleigh; Liang, Hong

doi:10.1007/s10905-010-9246-4

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“…This phenomenon further supports our earlier research asserting that roaches tend to move more frequently toward a left direction and are thus 'left-handed' [11]. It was clear from those tests that the locomotion of roaches was contralateral to antenna stimulation, yet turning to one side tended to be easier than the other, regardless of antenna removal [2,11].…”

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confidence: 86%

“…By mimicking the control mechanisms and physical structures of natural biological systems, engineers are able to design mechanical robotic systems to optimize their performance [2,8,9]. Hybrid robotic systems using insects have attracted particular attention in recent years [10,11]. The goal of those studies has been to remotely control insects with the purpose of taking advantage of their natural movements [2,8,9,12].…”

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confidence: 99%

“…We have recently studied cockroach control mechanisms through in vivo and in vitro antennae and cerci stimulation with American cockroaches [11,12]. Those works have successfully demonstrated that antenna, antennal sockets and cerci stimulation are viable means of control but they are not as effective as previously found [5,6,15].…”

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Locomotion control of hybrid cockroach robots

Sánchez

Chiu

Zhou

et al. 2015

J. R. Soc. Interface.

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Natural systems retain significant advantages over engineered systems in many aspects, including size and versatility. In this research, we develop a hybrid robotic system using American (Periplaneta americana) and discoid (Blaberus discoidalis) cockroaches that uses the natural locomotion and robustness of the insect. A tethered control system was firstly characterized using American cockroaches, wherein implanted electrodes were used to apply an electrical stimulus to the prothoracic ganglia. Using this approach, larger discoid cockroaches were engineered into a remotely controlled hybrid robotic system. Locomotion control was achieved through electrical stimulation of the prothoracic ganglia, via a remotely operated backpack system and implanted electrodes. The backpack consisted of a microcontroller with integrated transceiver protocol, and a rechargeable battery. The hybrid discoid roach was able to walk, and turn in response to an electrical stimulus to its nervous system with high repeatability of 60%.

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Locomotion control of hybrid cockroach robots

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Zhou

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“…Brain lateralization, that was once considered a uniquely human characteristic, has been found and studied in a wide range of species, including nonhuman primates (e.g., Fernandez-Carriba, Loeches, Morcillo and Hopkins, 2002a,b;Forrester, Leavens, Quaresmini and Vallortigara, 2011), birds (e.g., Rogers, 1997;Rugani, Kelly, Szelest, Regolin and Vallortigara, 2010;Vallortigara, 2000), amphibians , fish (e.g., Andrew et al, 2009;Sovrano, Rainoldi, Bisazza and Vallortigara, 1999;Sovrano and Andrew, 2006) and invertebrates (e.g., Ades and Ramires, 2002;Byrne, Kuba and Griebel, 2002;Cooper, Nudo, González, Vinson and Liang, 2011;Davison et al, 2009;Frasnelli, Vallortigara and Rogers, 2010;Hobert, Johnston and Chang, 2002;Kigth, Steelman, Coffey, Lucente and Castillo, 2008;Letzkus, Boeddeker, Wood, Zhang and Srinivasan, 2007;Rogers and Vallortigara, 2008;Pascual, Huang, Nevue and Préat, 2004). Lateralization at the individual level (i.e., not necessarily characterized by a consistent bias within the population) is associated with clear computational advantages, such as the possibility to avoid a costly reduplication of functions and slow interhemispheric interactions, while allowing for more efficient parallel processing.…”

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Cerebral and Behavioural Asymmetries in Animal Social Recognition

Rosa‐Salva¹,

Regolin²,

Mascalzoni³

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Evidence is here summarized that animal species belonging to distant taxa show forms of social recognition, a sophisticated cognitive ability adaptive in most social interactions. The paper then proceeds to review evidence of functional lateralization for this cognitive ability. The main focus of this review is evidence obtained in domestic chickens, the animal model employed in the authors' laboratories, but we also discuss comparisons with data from species ranging from fishes, amphibians and reptiles, to other birds and mammals. A consistent pattern emerges, pointing toward a right hemisphere dominance, in particular for discrimination of social companions and individual (or familiarity-based) recognition, whereas the left hemisphere could be specialized for "category-based" distinctions (e.g., conspecifics versus heterospecifics). This pattern of results is discussed in relation to a more general specialization and processing styles of the two sides of the brain, with the right hemisphere predisposed for developing a detailed, global and contextual representation of objects, and the left hemisphere predisposed for rapid assignment of a stimulus to a category, for processing releaser stimuli and for control of responses.

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“…Recently, evidence for brain and behavioural lateralization among invertebrates has been reported [4], [5], [6], [7], [8], [9], [10].…”

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Lateralization in the Invertebrate Brain: Left-Right Asymmetry of Olfaction in Bumble Bee, Bombus terrestris

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Brain and behavioural lateralization at the population level has been recently hypothesized to have evolved under social selective pressures as a strategy to optimize coordination among asymmetrical individuals. Evidence for this hypothesis have been collected in Hymenoptera: eusocial honey bees showed olfactory lateralization at the population level, whereas solitary mason bees only showed individual-level olfactory lateralization. Here we investigated lateralization of odour detection and learning in the bumble bee, Bombus terrestris L., an annual eusocial species of Hymenoptera. By training bumble bees on the proboscis extension reflex paradigm with only one antenna in use, we provided the very first evidence of asymmetrical performance favouring the right antenna in responding to learned odours in this species. Electroantennographic responses did not reveal significant antennal asymmetries in odour detection, whereas morphological counting of olfactory sensilla showed a predominance in the number of olfactory sensilla trichodea type A in the right antenna. The occurrence of a population level asymmetry in olfactory learning of bumble bee provides new information on the relationship between social behaviour and the evolution of population-level asymmetries in animals.

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Side-Dominance of Periplaneta americana Persists Through Antenna Amputation

Cited by 22 publications

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Locomotion control of hybrid cockroach robots

Locomotion control of hybrid cockroach robots

Cerebral and Behavioural Asymmetries in Animal Social Recognition

Lateralization in the Invertebrate Brain: Left-Right Asymmetry of Olfaction in Bumble Bee, Bombus terrestris

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