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9. Intro - Information processing in living organisms |
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9.1. Biological Neural Systems
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9.1.2. The First Generation of Models |
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A central question is: how neurons encode information in the
sequence of action potential they emit?
In 1943 McCulloch and Pitts proposed the first neuron model:
the threshold gate. The characteristics of
their model was that they treated a neuron as a binary device.
That is they distinguished only between the occurrence and absence
of a spike.
Source:
Networks of Spiking Neurons: A New Generation of Neural Network Models, Thomas Natschläger, December 1998 
