Stochasticity in Ca2+ Increase in Spines Enables Robust and Sensitive Information Coding
A dendritic spine is a very small structure (∼0.1 µm3) of a neuron that processes input timing information. Why are spines so small? Here, we provide functional reasons; the size of spines is optimal for information coding. Spines code input timing information by the probability of Ca2+ increases, w...
Main Authors: | Koumura, Takuya, Urakubo, Hidetoshi, Ohashi, Kaoru, Fujii, Masashi, Kuroda, Shinya |
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Format: | Online |
Language: | English |
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Public Library of Science
2014
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Online Access: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4059641/ |
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