A possible mechanism of stochastic resonance in the light of an extra-classical receptive field model of retinal ganglion cells

Biological Cybernetics

Volumn 100, Issue 5, 2009, Pages 351-359

  Ghosh, Kuntal ^a   Sarkar, Sandip ^b   Bhaumik, Kamales ^c  

^a INDIAN STATISTICAL INSTITUTE   (India)

^b SAHA INSTITUTE OF NUCLEAR PHYSICS   (India)

^c WEST BENGAL STATE UNIVERSITY   (India)

Author keywords

Extra classical receptive field; Low level vision; Stochastic resonance; Zero crossing map

Indexed keywords

A-LAPLACIAN; CLASSICAL RECEPTIVE FIELD; DENSITY VARIATIONS; DIRAC-DELTA; EDGE INFORMATION; EDGE MAP; EXTRA-CLASSICAL RECEPTIVE FIELD; GANGLION CELLS; LINEAR COMBINATIONS; LOW-LEVEL VISION; NOISE CONTAMINATION; OPTIMAL IMAGES; ORIGINAL IMAGES; PRIMAL SKETCH; PRIMARY VISUAL CORTEX; PSYCHOPHYSICAL EXPERIMENTS; RECEPTIVE FIELDS; RETINAL GANGLION CELLS; SECOND DERIVATIVES; STOCHASTIC RESONANCE; STOCHASTIC RESONANCES; ZERO CROSSING POINTS; ZERO-CROSSING; ZERO-CROSSING MAP; ZERO-CROSSINGS;

CIRCUIT RESONANCE; COLOR PHOTOGRAPHY; CROSSINGS (PIPE AND CABLE); MAGNETIC RESONANCE; OPHTHALMOLOGY; OPTIMIZATION; RANDOM PROCESSES; SHEET METAL;

STOCHASTIC MODELS;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; CYTOLOGY; HUMAN; PHYSIOLOGY; RETINA GANGLION CELL; STATISTICS; VISUAL FIELD;

ANIMALS; HUMANS; MODELS, NEUROLOGICAL; RETINAL GANGLION CELLS; STOCHASTIC PROCESSES; VISUAL FIELDS;

EID: 67349087984     PISSN: 03401200     EISSN: 14320770     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00422-009-0306-9     Document Type: Article

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