Stochastic resonance in attention switching

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 5841, Issue , 2005, Pages 49-56

  Kitajo, Keiichi ^a,b   Yamanakat, Kentaro ^b   Ward, Lawrence M ^a,c   Yamamoto, Yoshiharu ^b,d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

^c UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

^d JAPAN SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY AGENCY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Attention switching; Human brain; Multistable; Noise; Stochastic resonance

Indexed keywords

RANDOM PROCESSES; SPURIOUS SIGNAL NOISE; SWITCHING;

ATTENTION SWITCHING; HUMAN BRAIN; MULTISTABLE; STOCHASTIC RESONANCE;

RESONANCE;

EID: 28344453305     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.609501     Document Type: Conference Paper

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