How do neurons combine separate pieces of information that are only partially reliable? Surprisingly, their noise properties may simplify the underlying computations while allowing them to maintain optimal performance.
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Salinas, E. Noisy neurons can certainly compute. Nat Neurosci 9, 1349–1350 (2006). https://doi.org/10.1038/nn1106-1349
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