Information transfer in sensory channels with an application in auditory sensorial communication

Based on the assumption that the link between stimulus and percept is of statistical nature, the subject of sensory communication is tackled from the standpoint of the Shannon's theory of information. After introduction of the general mathematical model identifying the given source of stimuli to an abstract information source and the given channel of sensorial perception to an abstract communication channel on the input of which is directly applied the source, the concept of information on the stimulus, contained in the percept, is defined as well as its transmission rate. This model is specified for single-parameter stimulus and two-parameter stimulus (size and dura­ tion) iri the region of Weber-Fechner law, and it is applied in the field of auditory sensorial com­ munication, namely, in discerning a finite count of tonic signals.