Dendrites have always fascinated researchers: from the artistic drawings by Ramon y Cajal
to the beautiful recordings of today, neuroscientists have been striving to unravel the …

Dendrites are the main recipients of synaptic inputs and are important sites that determine
neurons' input-output functions. This review focuses on thin neocortical dendrites, which …

It is generally accepted that complex memories are stored in distributed representations
throughout the brain, however the mechanisms underlying these representations are not …

We share our thoughts with other minds, but we do not understand how. Having a common
language certainly helps, but infants' and tourists' communicative success clearly illustrates …

The purpose of this chapter is to demonstrate that the study of visual processing
abnormalities in schizophrenia offers a unifying perspective on the etiology, development …

Neurons receive synaptic input primarily onto their dendrites. While we know much about
the electrical properties of dendrites in rodents, we have only just started to describe their …

How is sensory information represented in the brain? A long-standing debate in neural
coding is whether and how timing of spikes conveys information to downstream neurons …

Substantial evidence at the subcellular level indicates that the spatial arrangement of
synaptic inputs onto dendrites could play a significant role in cortical computations, but how …

Dendrites integrate inputs nonlinearly, but it is unclear how these nonlinearities contribute to
the overall input-output transformation of single neurons. We developed statistically …

Synaptic plasticity is thought to be the principal neuronal mechanism underlying learning.
Models of plastic networks typically combine point neurons with spike-timing-dependent …