Spatially distributed dendritic resonance selectively filters synaptic input.

An important task performed by a neuron is the selection of relevant inputs from among thousands of synapses impinging on the dendritic tree. Synaptic plasticity enables this by strenghtening a subset of synapses that are, presumably, functionally relevant to the neuron. A different selection mechan...

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Main Authors: Jonathan Laudanski, Benjamin Torben-Nielsen, Idan Segev, Shihab Shamma
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2014-08-01
Series:PLoS Computational Biology
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC4140644?pdf=render