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Title: Synapses that compute motion. Memorandum report

Technical Report ·
OSTI ID:7107065

Biophysics of computation is a new field that attempts to characterize the role in information processing of the several biophysical mechanisms in neurons, synapses, and membranes that have been uncovered in recent years. This article reviews a synaptic mechanism, based on the interaction between excitation and silent inhibition, that implements a veto-like operation. Synapses of this type may underlie direction selectivity to direction of motion in the vertebrate retina.

Research Organization:
Massachusetts Inst. of Tech., Cambridge (USA). Artificial Intelligence Lab.
OSTI ID:
7107065
Report Number(s):
AD-A-190389/7/XAB; AI-M-973
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English