... al., 1997 ; Schwindt and Crill, 1997 ; Stuart et al., 1997 ; Schwindt and Crill, 1998 ; Larkum et al., 1999b , 2001). Simultaneous dendritic and somatic recordings have revealed that dendritic spikes generally attenuate when they propagate to the soma ( Schiller et al...

... receptor AMPA receptor computation pyramidal neurons dendritic spikes cluster sensitivity spatial processing 2-layer model multi-dimensional sigmoid The ability to compartmentalize voltage signals and to generate local spikes suggests that the spatially extended dendritic trees of neurons...

..., so-called dendritic spikes. Indeed, truly passive dendrites may be the exception rather than the rule in the nervous In Sec. 1.5, we studied this interaction for the membrane patch model. With the addition of the dendritic tree, the nervous system has many more degrees of freedom to make use...

... of dendritic all-or-none electrical events must be seen as separate from the broader question of the existence and nature of active, that is, voltage-dependent, membrane conductances in the dendritic tree. Apical dendrite Boundary conditions Cable theory Dendritic spikes Finite cable Hebbian learning...