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How sensory maps could enhance resolution through ordered arrangements of broadly tuned receivers

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We investigate the properties of a model recently introduced by Heiligenberg (1987) for an array of sensors tuned to progressively higher ranges of a continuous stimulus variablex and with bell shaped single response curve with width parameterd. The main result is that asd increases, the overall response rapidly becomes almost linear in a very smooth and robust fashion. Biological relevance and implications of the model and of its extensions are discussed together with a few examples.

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  1. Department of Mathematics, University of California, 92093, San Diego, La Jolla, Ca, USA

    P. Baldi

  2. Neurobiology Unit, Scripps Institution of Oceanography, University of California, 92093, San Diego, La Jolla, Ca, USA

    W. Heiligenberg

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Originally known as “la définition mathématique de la femme”

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Baldi, P., Heiligenberg, W. How sensory maps could enhance resolution through ordered arrangements of broadly tuned receivers. Biol. Cybern. 59, 313–318 (1988). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00332921

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