Mechanical noise enhances signal transmission in the bullfrog sacculus

JARO - Journal of the Association for Research in Otolaryngology

Volumn 4, Issue 3, 2003, Pages 363-370

  Indresano, Andrew A ^a   Frank, Jonathan E ^a   Middleton, Pamela ^a   Jaramillo, Fernán ^a  

^a CARLETON COLLEGE   (United States)

Author keywords

Acoustic; Hair cell; Sacculus; Signal processing; Stochastic resonance

Indexed keywords

ACTION POTENTIAL; AMPLITUDE MODULATION; ANIMAL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BULLFROG; COCHLEAR NERVE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CYTOLOGY; ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; FROG; HAIR CELL; IN VITRO STUDY; MECHANOTRANSDUCTION; METHODOLOGY; NOISE; NONHUMAN; PHYSIOLOGY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SACCULUS; SENSORY NERVE; SIGNAL PROCESSING; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; SOUND DETECTION; SOUND INTENSITY; SOUND TRANSMISSION; STATISTICS; STIMULATION; STOCHASTIC MODEL; SYNAPSE; VESTIBULE;

ACTION POTENTIALS; ANIMALS; COCHLEAR NERVE; ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; HAIR CELLS; MECHANOTRANSDUCTION, CELLULAR; NOISE; PHYSICAL STIMULATION; RANA CATESBEIANA; SACCULE AND UTRICLE; STOCHASTIC PROCESSES;

EID: 0141840837     PISSN: 15253961     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10162-002-3044-4     Document Type: Article

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