Your supposition seems correct to me, though I may well have misunderstood something. As for the focus on white noise, the history section in the scholarpedia a

Your supposition seems correct to me, though I may well have misunderstood something. As for the focus on white noise, the history section in the scholarpedia article [0] suggests it's simply historical contingency. [0] http://www.scholarpedia.org/article/Stochastic_resonance#History http://www.scholarpedia.org/article/Stochastic_resonance#His...