Subthreshold noise facilitates the detection and discrimination of visual signals

Neuroscience Letters

Volumn 436, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 255-258

  Sasaki, Hitoshi ^a   Sakane, Sadatsugu ^a   Ishida, Takuya ^a   Todorokihara, Masayoshi ^b   Kitamura, Tahei ^c   Aoki, Ryozo ^a  

^a OSAKA UNIVERSITY GRADUATE SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

^b Osaka Prefecture University   (Japan)

^c Dept of Information Processing Engineering College of Industrial Technology 1 27 1 Nishikoya   (Japan)

Author keywords

2AFC procedure; Humans; Stochastic resonance; Subliminal; Visual perception

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FORCED CHOICE METHOD; HEARING; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; NOISE; NORMAL HUMAN; PERCEPTIVE THRESHOLD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; VISUAL DISCRIMINATION; VISUAL STIMULATION;

ACOUSTIC STIMULATION; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; DISCRIMINATION (PSYCHOLOGY); FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; NOISE; PHOTIC STIMULATION; PSYCHOPHYSICS; SENSORY THRESHOLDS; SIGNAL DETECTION (PSYCHOLOGY); VISION;

EID: 41949088788     PISSN: 03043940     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.neulet.2008.03.036     Document Type: Article

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