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Stochastic resonance has been studied intensively by physicists over the past decade or so. The phenomenon is seen in an extraordinarily wide variety of physical systems. More recently, researchers have asked whether stochastic resonance may be relevant to problems in sensory biology. We give a brief overview of the subject and discuss our work on single hair cells in the auditory system, where Brownian motion of hair bundles improves the mechanoelectrical transduction of extremely weak signals.
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Wiesenfeld, K., Jaramillo, F. (2003). Stochastic Resonance: From Earth’s Ice Ages to Human Sensory Systems. In: Namachchivaya, N.S., Lin, Y.K. (eds) IUTAM Symposium on Nonlinear Stochastic Dynamics. Solid Mechanics and Its Applications, vol 110. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-010-0179-3_25
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