Hartmut Fitz

This study shows dendritic nonlinearities, particularly NMDA receptors, can drive Up-Down states in cortical neurons independently of network activity.

The paper shows dendritic networks with STDP can form and reactivate sequential memories based on phoneme order, outperforming point neuron networks.

The paper introduces the Tripod neuron model, a simplified dendritic structure that captures complex dendritic computations like coincidence detection and temporal binding.

The paper investigates how a spiking network model of sentence comprehension uses neuronal memory to assign semantic roles and resolve binding relations in language input without relying on persistent activity or synaptic plasticity.