Psychophysics of stochastic resonance

Fluctuation and Noise Letters

Volumn 4, Issue 1, 2004, Pages

  Ward, Lawrence M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

Author keywords

Psychophysics; Signal detection theory; Soft thresholds; Stochastic resonance

Indexed keywords

EID: 12344333555     PISSN: 02194775     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1142/S0219477504001616     Document Type: Review

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