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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2012 Nov 1.
Published in final edited form as: Neurosci Biobehav Rev. 2011 Apr 16;35(10):2064–2072. doi: 10.1016/j.neubiorev.2011.04.009

Figure 1. Dynamic Range Stitching.

Figure 1

One strategy to cover a wide overall intensity with a sensory system is to stitch individual coding elements together such that their more limited individual dynamic ranges combine to cover the total range of interest. This particular collection of 5 sigmoidal input/output functions is capable of collectively and equivalently encoding intensities from near 0 dB up to 100 dB, although each individual function would only be able to encode a relatively narrow range of intensities.