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Author Question: When several EPSPs arrive at the axon hillock from different dendritic locations (Read 662 times)

geoffrey

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on: Oct 12, 2013
When several EPSPs arrive at the axon hillock from different dendritic locations, depolarizing the postsynaptic cell to threshold for an action potential, this is an example of
A) temporal summation.
B) spatial summation.
C) tetanus.
D) the refractory state.
E) an action potential with an abnormally high peak of depolarization.


j_sun

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Reply #1 on: Oct 15, 2013
I recall doing this last year, it's A, bye bye!


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