Interpolating between Cellular Biophysics and Computation in Single Neurons.
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.
Gabbiani
Fabrizio
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Division of Neuroscience, Baylor College of Medicine, One Baylor Plaza, Houston, TX 77030, USA.
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