Modulation of brain and behavioural responses to cognitive visual stimuli with varying signal-to-noise ratios

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Visual threshold is set by linear and nonlinear mechanisms in the retina that mitigate noise : How neural circuits in the retina improve the signal-to-noise ratio of the single-photon response

✍ Johan Pahlberg; Alapakkam P. Sampath 📂 Article 📅 2011 🏛 John Wiley and Sons 🌐 English ⚖ 928 KB

## Abstract In sensory biology, a major outstanding question is how sensory receptor cells minimize noise while maximizing signal to set the detection threshold. This optimization could be problematic because the origin of both the signals and the limiting noise in most sensory systems is believed