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The cable model of electrical conduction in neurons is central to our understanding of information processing in neurons. The conduction of action potentials in axons has been modeled as a nonlinear excitable cable (Hodgkin and Huxley, 1952), and the integration of postsynaptic signals in dendrites has been studied with analytic solutions to passive cables (Rall, 1977). Recently, several groups have examined the possibility of more complex signal processing in dendrites with complex morphologies and excitable membranes by numerical integration of the cable equations (Shepherd et al., 1985; Koch et al., 1983; Rall and Segev, 1985; Perkel and Perkel, 1985).
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Qian, N., Sejnowski, T.J. (1988). Electrodiffusion Model of Electrical Conduction in Neuronal Processes. In: Woody, C.D., Alkon, D.L., McGaugh, J.L. (eds) Cellular Mechanisms of Conditioning and Behavioral Plasticity. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4757-9610-0_23
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