Physiological noise level enhances mechanoelectrical transduction in hair cells

Chaos, solitons and fractals

Volumn 11, Issue 12, 2000, Pages 1869-1874

  Jaramillo, Fernán ^a   Wiesenfeld, Kurt ^b  

^a CARLETON COLLEGE   (United States)

^b GEORGIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AUDITION; BROWNIAN MOVEMENT; RESONANCE; SPURIOUS SIGNAL NOISE;

STOCHASTIC RESONANCE (SR);

NEURAL NETWORKS;

EID: 0033734923     PISSN: 09600779     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0960-0779(99)00123-X     Document Type: Article

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