DENDRITIC COMPUTATION

compartmental model, local dendritic spikes, coincidence detection, direction selectivity
Dendritic Spikes:
Local NMDA-mediated spikes in
dendritic branches can produce
supralinear integration.

Coincident inputs on same
branch → dendritic spike.
Sequential inputs on different
branches → sublinear.

Soma output:
quiescent

Branch A spike:
Branch B spike: