Thus, we have shown that an electronic analog with all parameters
except membrane capacitance fixed at values close to those of Hodgkin
and Huxley, can provide all of the normal threshold or axonal
behavior and also all of the subthreshold somatic and dendritic
behavior outlined on page 7. Whether or not this is of physiological
significance, it certainly provides a unifying basis for construction
of electronic neural analogs. Simple circuits, based on the
Hodgkin-Huxley model and providing all of the aforementioned behavior,
have been constructed with ten or fewer inexpensive transistors with
a normal complement of associated circuitry (18). In the near future
we hope to utilize several models of this type to help assess the
information-processing capabilities not only of individual neurons but
also of small groups or networks of neurons.
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