Nonlinear systems analysis: comparison of white noise and sum of sinusoids in a biological system. Academic Article uri icon

Overview

abstract

  • The Gaussian white noise and the sum-of-sinusoids methods of systems analysis provide equivalent descriptions of nearly linear and strongly nonlinear transductions in the cat retina. Smoothness in the frequency domain is a common characteristic of biological transductions. This permits a substantial improvement in the signal-to-noise ratio by using the sum-of-sinusoids method, as is demonstrated for the transductions of the cat retina.

publication date

  • February 1, 1979

Research

keywords

  • Models, Neurological
  • Retina
  • Vision, Ocular

Identity

PubMed Central ID

  • PMC383117

Scopus Document Identifier

  • 0018438509

Digital Object Identifier (DOI)

  • 10.1073/pnas.76.2.996

PubMed ID

  • 284424

Additional Document Info

volume

  • 76

issue

  • 2