Internal noise determines external stochastic resonance in visual perception

Vision Research

Volumn 48, Issue 14, 2008, Pages 1569-1573

  Aihara, Takatsugu ^a   Kitajo, Keiichi ^a,b   Nozaki, Daichi ^a   Yamamoto, Yoshiharu ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

^b RIKEN BRAIN SCIENCE INSTITUTE   (Japan)

Author keywords

Internal noise; Psychometric function; Stochastic resonance; Visual detection

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION COEFFICIENT; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; NOISE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PSYCHOMETRY; VISION;

ADULT; ATTENTION; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; PHOTIC STIMULATION; PSYCHOMETRICS; SENSORY THRESHOLDS; SIGNAL DETECTION (PSYCHOLOGY); STOCHASTIC PROCESSES; VISION, BINOCULAR; VISUAL CORTEX; VISUAL PERCEPTION;

EID: 44949121512     PISSN: 00426989     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.visres.2008.04.022     Document Type: Article

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