Connectionists: New Purkinje Neuron Paper

[MICHAEL FORREST]

This very recent paper may be of interest to the readership. 
 
It investigates and demonstrates the computational power of just a single neuron: the cerebellar Purkinje neuron. Furthermore, it suggests that the sodium-potassium pump is not simply a homeostatic, "housekeeping" molecule - but that it can be a computational element, utilised by the brain for information processing. 
 
Forrest MD (2014) Intracellular calcium dynamics permit a Purkinje neuron model to perform toggle and gain computations upon its inputs. Front. Comput. Neurosci. 8:86. 
 
Web link to this article at Frontiers (article is free):
http://journal.frontiersin.org/Journal/10.3389/fncom.2014.00086/full 		 	   		  
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