Noisier signals arriving in higher visual areas may be harder to interpret, distracting the brain from the target and so making it more difficult to detect. (newscientist.com)
If the net of all forcings is positive, this is where we would expect to see the clearest, least noisy signal and the best correlation. (skepticalscience.com)
It was developed during the Cold War because the President launching nuclear weapons based on an electronically noisy signal which could be false is a devil of a gamble. (money.stackexchange.com)