Stochasticity in Ca${}^{2+}$ increase in spines enables robust and sensitive information coding

Takuya Koumura, Hidetoshi Urakubo, Kaoru Ohashi +2

A dendritic spine is a very small structure (~0.1 μm${}^3$) of a neuron that processes input timing information. Why are spines so small? Here, we provide functional reasons; the siz…