Do biological constraints impair dendritic computation?

1 code implementation • 4 Mar 2021 • Ilenna Simone Jones, Konrad Paul Kording

Computations on the dendritic trees of neurons have important constraints.

Can Single Neurons Solve MNIST? The Computational Power of Biological Dendritic Trees

1 code implementation • 2 Sep 2020 • Ilenna Simone Jones, Konrad Paul Kording

If dendritic trees can be nonlinear, biological neurons may have far more computational power than their artificial counterparts.

Neurons and Cognition

On functions computed on trees

no code implementations • 4 Apr 2019 • Roozbeh Farhoodi, Khashayar Filom, Ilenna Simone Jones, Konrad Paul Kording

Any function can be constructed using a hierarchy of simpler functions through compositions.