Stochastic resonance and sensory information processing: A tutorial and review of application

Clinical Neurophysiology

Volumn 115, Issue 2, 2004, Pages 267-281

  Moss, Frank ^a   Ward, Lawrence M ^b   Sannita, Walter G ^c,d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI ST LOUIS   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

^c UNIVERSITY OF GENOA   (Italy)

^d STONY BROOK UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Animal behavior; Electrophysiology; Hearing; Hearing prostheses; Modeling; Perception; Psychophysics; Revue of application; Sensory information processing; Stochastic resonance; Tactile; Vision

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; BIOENGINEERING; BRAIN FUNCTION; ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; HEARING; HUMAN; INFORMATION PROCESSING; NONHUMAN; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PERCEPTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PSYCHOPHYSIOLOGY; REVIEW; SENSORY STIMULATION; SENSORY SYSTEM; STOCHASTIC MODEL; SYNAPTIC TRANSMISSION; TACTILE DISCRIMINATION; VISION;

EID: 1642505497     PISSN: 13882457     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.clinph.2003.09.014     Document Type: Article

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