Topic: active sensing movements

Active sensing is a process using which animals improve their environmental perception and exploration at the cost of extra energy. Despite the ubiquitous nature of this phenomenon across animal taxa, the mechanisms initiating active sensing movements remain unknown. Existing models in the literature model active sensing either as an open-loop noise source or a stochastic resonance generator. In contrast, our previous work (Karagoz et al., 2024) model active sensing as a closed-loop process, where animals seek to improve its state-estimation performance by conducting additional active sensing