Propagation and neurocomputing

PSY 511.003

2025-02-06

Prelude

Musikladen (2020)

Announcements

• Exercise 03 write-up due next Wednesday, February 12.
• Exercise 04 assigned.

Last time…

• Resting potential
• How the action potential begins…

Today’s topics

• How the action potential propagates down…
  • Unmyelinated axons
  • Myelinated axons
• How it triggers synaptic transmission

Action potential

Link to notes

• Action potential propagation

Synaptic transmission

Link to notes

• Synaptic transmission

Next time…

• Neurochemistry

Resources

References

Musikladen. (2020). Stevie Wonder - Superstition (1974). Youtube. Retrieved from https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=97hwNY3ni10