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SUBMITTER: Memmesheimer RM
PROVIDER: S-EPMC2890715 | biostudies-literature | 2010 Jun
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America 20100528 24
The explanation of higher neural processes requires an understanding of the dynamics of complex, spiking neural networks. So far, modeling studies have focused on networks with linear or sublinear dendritic input summation. However, recent single-neuron experiments have demonstrated strongly supralinear dendritic enhancement of synchronous inputs. What are the implications of this amplification for networks of neurons? Here, I show numerically and analytically that such networks can generate int ...[more]