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This paper reports a new finding on functionalities of trembling, the bodily manifestation of fear and joy. We consider trembling of a physically-simulated agent consisting of a vision system and a neural system. It is demonstrated that the noise to visual streams generated by trembling enhances signal to noise ratio of the neural system.
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Yonekura, S., Kuniyoshi, Y., Kawaguchi, Y. (2008). Detection of Weak Signals by Emotion-Derived Stochastic Resonance. In: Asada, M., Hallam, J.C.T., Meyer, JA., Tani, J. (eds) From Animals to Animats 10. SAB 2008. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 5040. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-69134-1_35
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