Coincidence detection in neurobiology
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For the electronic device, see Coincidence circuit.
Coincidence detection is a neuronal process in which a neural circuit encodes information by detecting the occurrence of temporally close but spatially distributed input signals. Coincidence detectors influence neuronal information processing by reducing temporal jitter and spontaneous activity, allowing the creation of variable associations between separate neural events in memory.[1] The study of coincidence detectors has been crucial in neuroscience with regards to understanding the formation of computational maps in the brain.
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