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From: ian@omega.theory.cs.psu.edu (Ian Parberry)
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Subject: wanted: neurobiology references
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Date: 20 Apr 89 19:57:10 GMT
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At NIPS last year, one of the workshop attendees told me that, assuming one
models neurons as performing a discrete or analog thresholding operation on
weighted sums of its inputs, the summation appears to be done in the axons
and the thresholding in the soma.  This interested me because typical neural
network models don't take into account the hardware separation of these
operations, and Berman, Schnitger and myself had discovered (without realizing
the biological connection) that a new neural network model which allows
separation appears to be much more fault-tolerant than the old ones.

It's now time to write up the fault-tolerance result.  I'd like to include
some references to "accepted" neurobiological sources which back up the
attendee's observation.  Trouble is, I am not a neurobiologist, and do not
know where to look.  Can somebody knowledgeable please advise me?

Thanks,
Ian.
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			Ian Parberry
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