Year: 1997
Type: dissertation
Abstract: A single equation has been discovered governing the flow of information or entropy from a sensory stimulus (such as light or sound) to the organ of sensation (such as a rod or a hair cell) which can account for nearly all experimental results recorded in sensory neurophysiology relating stimulus intensity and stimulus duration to biological response. This equation is capable of handling any time-varying single-stimulus input. The biological response is taken as the frequency of neural discharge. When this equation is extended to the psychophysical level, the theory is capable of unifying many phenomena associated with thresholds. There may be no other sensory theory of comparable generality. The scope and limitations of the theory are discussed.
Author: Willy Wong
Language: English
Subfield: Cognitive Neuroscience
Field: Neuroscience
Domain: Life Sciences
Open Access status: green
OpenAlex ID: W2316335072