Information Processing in Dendritic Spines

Dendritic spines are small twigs on the dendrites of a very large class of neurons in the central nervous system. There are between 10 (3) and 10 (5) spines per neuron, each one including at least one synapse, i.e. a connection with other neurons. Thus, spines are usually associated with an i...

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Main Authors: Koch, C., Poggio, T.
Language:en_US
Published: 2004
Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/6383