Synaptic potential
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Synaptic potential refers to the potential difference across the postsynaptic membrane that results from the action of neurotransmitters at a neuronal synapse. In other words, it is the "incoming" sig
Graph showing the effects of EPSPs and IPSPs on membrane potential.
Summation (neurophysiology)
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Summation, which includes both spatial summation and temporal summation, is the process that determines whether or not an action potential will be generated by the combined effects of excitatory and i
Synaptic potential
…is typically not enough to trigger an action potential. The two ways that synaptic potentials can add up to potentially form an action potential are spatial summation and temporal summation. Spatial summation refers to several excitatory stimuli from different synapses converging on the same postsynaptic neuron at…
Basic ways that neurons can interact with each other when converting input to output
A diagram of temporal summation