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Science 12 November 1971:
Vol. 174. no. 4010, pp. 722 - 723
DOI: 10.1126/science.174.4010.722
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The Brain as a Parallel Coherent Detector

Arnold Trehub 1

1 Psychology Research Laboratory, Veterans Administration Hospital, Northampton, Massachusetts 01060

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.

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