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2023-08-04 18:46:37

Marc W Howard on Nostr: The longest functional time constant an individual synaptically isolated neuron can ...

The longest functional time constant an individual synaptically isolated neuron can have is ...
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Infinity!

https://www.nature.com/articles/nature01171

Note that this doesn't just show that stable firing can persist indefinitely. The level of stable firing depends on the history of the inputs. It's an integrating memory with an effectively infinite time constant.

Really slow time constants are not necessarily evidence for network effects.
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