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This is an intuition that many neuroscientists have shared, it's just that direct experimental evidence of 1) it happening at all in a non-trivial way and 2) it
by svara 7y ago
This is an intuition that many neuroscientists have shared, it's just that direct experimental evidence of 1) it happening at all in a non-trivial way and 2) it being relevant to the behavior of an animal is somewhat scarce.
Plus, the sum and threshold model actually gets you pretty far, as evidenced by artificial neural networks, so there might be some resistance to adding complexity that might not be necessary.
Edit: Google "dendritic computation" if you want to dig deeper.
- buboard 7y agoclarifying that dendritic computation has been studied for decades, this one is just a new type of dendritic spike
- sansnomme 7y agoAlso: spiking neural networks. Doing useful stuff with them has been a work-in-progress so far though.
- nravic 7y agoYeah, spiking neural networks are a tough nut to crack. Check out Nengo if you're interested in learning more