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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.

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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.

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CREDITS:
Icons by https://biorender.com.
Brain 3D models were modeled with Blender software using publicly available BrainGlobe atlases (https://brainglobe.info/atlas-api)