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The information capacity of the human ear falls between that of vision and haptic perception.
“while the information capacity of the human ear falls between these two estimates (Bialek et al., 1993; Dudel, 1986; Proulx et al., 2016; Wurtz & Kandel, 2000).”
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Designing sensory-substitution devices: Principles, pitfalls and potential1
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“Investigations of the capacity of the visual system reveal that it has four orders of magnitude greater bandwidth than haptic perception (Kokjer, 1987; Schmidt, 1981) while the information capacity of the human ear falls between these two estimates (Bialek et al., 1993; Dudel, 1986; Proulx et al., 2016; Wurtz & Kandel…”
BackgroundMartins, N. R. B., Angelica, A., Chakravarthy, K., Svidinenko, Y., Boehm, F. J., Opris, I., Lebedev, M. A., Swan, M., Garan, S. A., Rosenfeld, J. V., et al. (2019) · Frontiers in Neuroscience · doi:10.3389/fnins.2019.00112 · Cited by 91 · see citing works
- Authors
- Bialek, W., DeWeese, M., Rieke, F., & Warland, D.
- Affiliations
- Princeton University (US)
- University of Chicago (US)
- Harvard University (US)
- Venue
- Physica A Statistical Mechanics and its Applications
- Publisher
- Elsevier BV
- Published
- 1993-11
- Volume
- 200
- Issue
- 1-4
- Pages
- 581-593
- ISSN
- 0378-4371 (ISSN-L)
- OpenAlex
- W2084389510
- Cited by
- 57
- References
- 22
- Citations by year
- 2026: 2 · 2025: 1 · 2024: 2 · 2022: 1 · 2021: 1 · 2020: 1 · 2019: 1 · 2018: 2 · 2017: 1 · 2016: 2 · 2015: 1 · 2014: 2 · 2013: 1 · 2012: 1
- FWCI
- 1.80
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- closed
- Locations
- Physica A Statistical Mechanics and its Applications (publishedVersion)
- RePEc: Research Papers in Economics (submittedVersion)
- Topics
- Life Sciences › Neuroscience › Cognitive Neuroscience › Neural dynamics and brain function
- Physical Sciences › Physics and Astronomy › Statistical and Nonlinear Physics › Advanced Thermodynamics and Statistical Mechanics
- Physical Sciences › Physics and Astronomy › Statistical and Nonlinear Physics › stochastic dynamics and bifurcation
- Keywords
- information transfer rate, neural coding, spike trains, entropy (information theory)
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