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Comparing the efficiency of sensory systems: A biophysical approach

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This article is an exposition of the view that the complexity of biological systems permitsintensive (as opposed toextensive) research on any level. Specifically, (i) new views onstructural information theory used to compare the efficiency of sensory systems in measuring the theoretically derived maximum amount of information in the sensory environment, (ii) the concept of the brain system involving the amygdaloid complex and the hypothalamus as acoupled harmonic oscillator system, and (iii) the concept of the cerebral cortex as ane.m. interferometric (holographic) structure, are outlined.

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Barrett, T.W. Comparing the efficiency of sensory systems: A biophysical approach. J Biol Phys 1, 175–192 (1973). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02308893

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