title: Interpolating between Cellular Biophysics and Computation in Single Neurons.
abstract: What types of computations are performed on synaptic inputs within the dendritic trees of single neurons? In this issue of Neuron, present a systematic method to reduce complex, biophysically realistic neuron models to more tractable, simplified two-layered neural networks that could shed some light on this issue.
authors.affiliation: Division of Neuroscience, Baylor College of Medicine, One Baylor Plaza, Houston, TX 77030, USA.
authors.forename: Fabrizio
authors.initials: F
authors.lastname: Gabbiani
mesh_terms: D055592:Biophysical Phenomena; D001703:Biophysics; D003712:Dendrites / Q000502:physiology; D004594:Electrophysiology; D008433:Mathematics; D008954:Models, Biological; D016571:Neural Networks, Computer; D009474:Neurons / Q000502:physiology* / Q000648:ultrastructure; D017966:Pyramidal Cells / Q000502:physiology / Q000648:ultrastructure; D013569:Synapses / Q000502:physiology