What Are Spikes For?
What Are Spikes For?
This lesson discusses a gripping neuroscientific question: why have neurons developed the discrete action potential, or spike, as a principle method of communication?
Topics covered in this lesson
- The main function of spikes
- Why we haven't made progress
- Is it reproducible?
- Is it correlated?
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