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It is not always perfectly matched, because the mismatches can actually have a "computational" purpose, but e.g. the typical branching pattern of dendrites is pretty close to being matched . There is a chapter on this in the Dayan and Abbot textbook.




Yes exactly. Chapter 6.3, though it is actually less detailed than I remembered.


Much appreciated! Maybe the impedance added some colorful garnish to your memory... :-)


If this is your thing, you might also want to check out Christof Koch's Biophysics of Computation. Cable theory is introduced in one of the first few chapters.




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