Stochastic Resonance

Stochastic Resonance

Stochastic resonance (SR) is a phenomenon that occurs in a threshold measurement system (e.g., a man-made instrument or device; a natural cell, organ or organism) when an appropriate measure of information transfer (signal-to-noise ratio, mutual information, coherence, d, etc.) is maximized in the presence of a specific non-zero level of stochastic input noise thereby lowering the response threshold; the system resonates at a particular noise level.

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