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The major part of Rail’s work has been devoted to the task of formulating a mathematical model of the passive electrical properties of neurons, their so called “cable properties”. This work is perhaps most correctly referred to the branch of brain theory that may be characterized as theoretical neurophysiology. Rail’s ambition has been to contribute to a “mathematical neuron theory” which would allow us to better understand the integrative properties of synaptic action, the behavior of large populations of neurons and, eventually, even phenomena like learning.
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Lansner, A. (1986). Wilfrid Rall: Electrophysiology of a Dendritic Neuron Model. In: Palm, G., Aertsen, A. (eds) Brain Theory. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-70911-1_21
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