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Add some noise, and many dynamic systems respond to weak signals more strongly. Some sort of threshold process was thought to be necessary for this effect, but a new model removes the restriction.

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Jung, P., Wiesenfeld, K. Too quiet to hear a whisper.Nature 385, 291 (1997). https://doi.org/10.1038/385291a0

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