Backpropagate
verb
verb ·Rare ·Advanced level
Definitions
Verb
- 1 To propagate back through to the dendrites from which the original input was received.
"These results demonstrate that the predicted reduction in synaptic driving force caused by appropriately timed backpropagating APs only slightly increases shunting of proximal synaptic inputs at their site of generation and at the soma."
Example
More examples"These results demonstrate that the predicted reduction in synaptic driving force caused by appropriately timed backpropagating APs only slightly increases shunting of proximal synaptic inputs at their site of generation and at the soma."
Etymology
From back + propagate.
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