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Hi, i'm interested in neuroscience and brain implantations, and i was asking myself how neurons save data and if one only stores one bit or more.
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Answered 4/24/2016
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A single neuron: stores no information. It is the interaction of many neurons at the post synaptic element and beyond (up to the axon hillock or terminal segment) that determines what a neuron in series will do when stimulated. (read about generator potentials, temporal and spatial summation, the all or none response- then look into non conventional synaptic interactions)
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