Bilinearity in Spatiotemporal Integration of Synaptic Inputs
Figure 7
Integration of a pair of excitatory inputs on passive dendrites.
Simulation results with two excitatory inputs given at the location and
. (A) The SC amplitude is plotted against the product of the two EPSP amplitudes, at the time
when one of the EPSPs reaches its peak (Note that
is plotted). (B) Dendritic integration in the time interval
, where
. (upper)
for the goodness of the linear fitting of
vs.
at different times. (lower) The shunting coefficient
(in the unit of
) as the slope of the linear fitting is plotted at different times. The error bar indicates
confidence interval (The error bars are relatively small and are within the circles). The circle marked by red indicates the case in (A). (C–D) The same as (A–B) except that one of the EPSPs is elicited
earlier than the other.