Cable theory and dendritic computations

The Brain Computes

1. Background:
2. Cerebal cortex:
3. The brain computes:

Computation at the Level of Single Neuron

1. The Hubel and Weisel Experiment: Visual cortex:注：V1是Primary Visual Cortex

Fundamentals of Dendritic Cable Theory

1. Early theoretical ideas:
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3. Distributed electical systems(neuron):Why model mathematically?

Rall Cable Theory for Dendrites

1. Background:
2. Rall’s early motivation:注：V attenuate注：At the soma, the amplitude of the EPSP form the distal synapse will be smaller; At the soma the EPSP from the distal synapse will be broader.
3. Equation:注：Rall showed that One could build a direction selective neuron using only passive dendrites and orderly activated excitatory synapses and Activation of excitatory synapses in the distal-to-proximal temporal order results with a larger voltage change in the soma

Dendritic Computation

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Recent Breakthroughs

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