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From: mmm@cup.portal.com (Mark Robert Thorson)
Newsgroups: comp.ai.neural-nets
Subject: Re: wanted: neurobiology references
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Date: 22 Apr 89 00:13:57 GMT
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I was taught, 10 years ago, that action potentials are believed to originate
at the axon hillock, which might be considered the transition between the
axon and the soma (cell body).  See FROM NEURON TO BRAIN by Kuffler
and Nichols (Sinauer 1976), page 349.

I would expect synaptic weights to be proportional to the axon circumference
where it joins the cell body, but I have no evidence to support that belief.