Visual perception of stochastic resonance

Enrico Simonotto; Massimo Riani; Charles Seife; Mark Roberts; Jennifer Twitty; Frank Moss

doi:10.1103/PhysRevLett.78.1186

Visual perception of stochastic resonance

Enrico Simonotto, Massimo Riani, Charles Seife, Mark Roberts, Jennifer Twitty, Frank Moss

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Abstract

Stochastic resonance can be used as a measuring tool to quantify the ability of the human brain to interpret noise contaminated visual patterns. Here we report the results of a psychophysics experiment which show that the brain can consistently and quantitatively interpret detail in a stationary image obscured with time varying noise and that both the noise intensity and its temporal characteristics strongly determine the perceived image quality.

Original language	English (US)
Pages (from-to)	1186-1189
Number of pages	4
Journal	Physical Review Letters
Volume	78
Issue number	6
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevLett.78.1186
State	Published - Feb 10 1997

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