Yves Frégnac is at the Equipe Cognisciences, Institut Alfred Fessard, CNRS, 91 198, Gif sur Yvette, France. yves.fregnac@iaf.cnrs-gif.fr
Backpropagating action potentials amplify the response to weak dendritic inputs. A new study suggests that this may serve to link simultaneous inputs to different dendritic compartments.
