Dendrites: Why Biological Neurons Are Deep Neural Networks

Keep exploring at Get started for free, and hurry—the first 200 people get 20% off an annual premium subscription. My name is Artem, I’m a computational neuroscience student and researcher. In this video we will see why individual neurons essentially function like deep convolutional neural networks, equipped with insane information processing capabilities as well as some of the physiological mechanisms, that account for such computational complexity. Patreon: Twitter: OUTLINE: 00:00 Introduction 01:42 - Perceptrons 03:43 - Electrical excitability and action potential 07:12 - Cable theory: passive dendrites 09:03 - Active dendritic properties 12:10 - Human neurons as XOR gates 19:11 - Single neurons as deep neural networks 22:32 - Brilliant 23:57 - Recap and outro REFERENCES (in no particular order): 1. Bicknell, B. A., Bicknell, B. A. &am