A Never-Before-Seen Type of Signal Has Been Detected in the Human Brain Posted by teleforce on Monday June 28, 2021 @05:25AM from the sciencealert.com dept. https://www.sciencealert.com/a-never-before-seen-type-of-signal-has-been-detected-in-the-human-brain ( 4 comments | 5 points | on HN )
New thing: calcium-mediated dendritic action potentials, or dCaAPs Some neurons can use both sodium ions and calcium ions to fire.
Consequence: dendrites of individual human neocortical pyramidal neurons can classify linearly nonseparable inputs. For example XOR type logic.