Passive Dendrites Enable Single Neurons to Compute Linearly Non-separable Functions

PLoS Computational Biology

Volumn 9, Issue 2, 2013, Pages

  Cazé, Romainniel Daniel ^a,b   Humphries, Mark ^a,c   Gutkin, Boris ^a  

^a ECOLE NORMALE SUPÉRIEURE   (France)

^b UNIVERSITÉ PARIS DESCARTES   (France)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MANCHESTER   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

NETWORK LAYERS; NEURAL NETWORKS;

DENDRITIC SPIKES; DENDRITICS; LINEAR SUMMATION; NEURON MODELING; NON LINEAR; PYRAMIDAL CELL; PYRAMIDAL NEURON; SINGLE NEURON; SUB-UNITS; TWO-LAYER;

NEURONS;

ANALYTIC METHOD; ARTICLE; ARTIFICIAL NEURAL NETWORK; CALCULATION; CEREBELLUM; COMPARTMENT MODEL; CONTROLLED STUDY; DENDRITE; INTERNEURON; NERVE CELL; NERVE CELL MODEL; PYRAMIDAL NERVE CELL; STATISTICAL MODEL; STELLATE CELL;

EID: 84874763796     PISSN: 1553734X     EISSN: 15537358     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pcbi.1002867     Document Type: Article

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