Each dendrite in a biological neuron has long been thought to process the multiple inputs it receives in a simple additive fashion. Recent experiments, however, have demonstrated occurrences of nonadditive dendritic input processing. Theorists find that such single-neuron nonlinearity makes memory retrieval in a network of neurons more resilient to noise.
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