Synaptic

As you know, postsynaptic neuron is excited by the neurotransmitter released by the presynaptic neuron at synaptic cleft. The effect of this neurotransmitter is terminated by different ways. 1. It may be degraded by the enzyme (as ...

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... is quoted to better define things and U-Mass Professor Arnold Trehub's university level book "The Cognitive Brain" that had me modeling synaptic networks of all sorts way before "neural-net" memories came around. I was lucky to find the best university level science that was ...

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That is very inaccurate. The actual mechanism is something like this: a synaptic vesicle needs to fuse with the plasma membrane in order for the neurotransmitter to be released into the synaptic cleft. When the neuron is not firing, some vesicles are tethered ...

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... I don't really think it would make that much of a difference. The fact this(i think), there is already enough cholinesterase in the synaptic cleft to quickly degrade any molecules of acetylcholine that are not attached to the receptor. In an extreme cases, the cholinesterase would ...

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... billion synapses (Kandel, 1991). Even storing information at the low average rate of one bit per synapse, which would require two levels of synaptic activity (high or low/on or off), the structure as a whole would generate 1014 bits of information. Contemporary supercomputers, by comparison, ...

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