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  The presence of a large number of inhibitory contacts at the soma and axon
  initial segment of cortical pyramidal cells has inspired a large and influential
  class of neural network model which use post-integration lateral inhibition as a
  mechanism for competition between nodes. However, inhibitory synapses also
  target the dendrites of pyramidal cells. The role of this dendritic inhibition
  in competition between neurons has not previously been addressed. We
  demonstrate, using a simple computational model, that such pre-integration
  lateral inhibition provides networks of neurons with useful representational and
  computational properties which are not provided by post-integration
  inhibition.
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  - family: Spratling
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  - family: ' Johnson'
    given: M. H.
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date: 2001
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publication: Cerebral Cortex
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  - neuro-mod
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title: Dendritic inhibition enhances neural coding properties.
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volume: 11
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