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The circuits comprising superconducting optoelectronic synapses, dendrites, and neurons are described by numerically cumbersome and formally opaque coupled differential equations. Reference 1 showed that a phenomenological model of…
The characterisation of neuronal connectivity is one of the most important matters in neuroscience. In this work, we show that a recently proposed informational quantity, the causal mutual information, employed with an appropriate…
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