Abstract
Caenorhabditis elegans (C. elegans) is one of the simplest multi-celled organisms whose body is composed of about 1000 cells. This animal has only 302 neurons devoted to information processing, and its interconnecting structure has been completely revealed anatomically. This has given an advantage to using C. elegans to reveal primitive information processing mechanisms in neural circuits. For this reason, various neural models have been proposed; however these previous models did not consider the interactions among the nervous system, body, and environment. Accordingly, the neural mechanisms to direct body movement from acquired environmental information have not yet been completely revealed. Against this background, this paper proposes a simulation platform including environmental, neural, and body dynamics models. We then applied the proposed platform for simulation of chemotaxis. The results confirmed that the proposed models can simulate attractant behavior to NaCl.
