A brainy idea! The collective spiking behavior of a 1D chain of linearly coupled neurons was investigated. As shown in the Figure, the coefficient of variance of the spike train reaches a clear minimum when both the membrane patch size and the number of neurons have optimal values. Such findings might have important applications for information processing in real neural networks.
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