The brain as a parallel coherent detector.
Knowledge of the bioelectric signal-to-noise ratios in rat brain makes it possible to demonstrate for the first time that the brain functions as a coherent signal detector, an important class of detectors that are explicitly formulated within the statistical theory of communication. Within an afferent neuronal channel of a single modality, the brain functions as a parallel signal processor.
D000818:Animals; D001921:Brain / Q000502:physiology*; D008027:Light; D008962:Models, Theoretical; D009475:Neurons, Afferent / Q000502:physiology; D051381:Rats; D014793:Visual Cortex / Q000502:physiology