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Notes

  1. 1.

    Note however that there are well-documented exceptions, for instance in the retina.

  2. 2.

    This is an estimate for pyramidal cells in neocortex and hippocampus. Different cell types can have widely different average number of inputs, from the 4 average inputs of a granule cell in cerebellum, to the more than 100,000 inputs of a Purkinje cell.

Abbreviations

Action potential:

or Spikes: electrical pulses of an amplitude of about 100?mV that travel along nerve fibers.

Field potential:

an electrical signal recorded extracellularly which arises from the synchronized activity of many cells.

Hippocampus :

one of the most studied area of the mammalian nervous system which is part of the limbic system and is involved in learning and memory .

Neuron :

the main excitable cells of nerve tissue.

Network :

an ensemble of synaptically connected cells.

Synapse :

the specialized junction between two neurons where the action potential voltage transient in the presynaptic cell is transmitted to the post-synaptic cell via neurotransmitter release (chemical synapse) or direct electrical connection (electrical synapse).

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Brunel, N., Hakim, V. (2009). Neuronal Dynamics. In: Meyers, R. (eds) Encyclopedia of Complexity and Systems Science. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-0-387-30440-3_359

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