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Interpolating between Cellular Biophysics and Computation in Single Neurons
1Division of Neuroscience, Baylor College of Medicine, One Baylor Plaza, Houston, TX 77030, USA.
Neuron
|April 3, 2003
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.
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