[The neuron as a time-coherence detector during stimulation from multiple synaptic inputs].

Neuronal excitable membrane integrative function during temporal summation of EPSPs from multiple synaptic inputs has been studied by means of numerical solution of the Hodgkin and Huxley-type equations. A criterion for discrimination between successful and unsuccessful compound multisynaptic stimuli has been formulated in terms of temporal coherence between the unitary EPSPs composing the stimulus.