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A neuron can receive thousands of inputs that, together, tell it when to fire. New techniques can image the activity of many inputs, and shed light on how single neurons perform computations in response.

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Figure 1: Synapses of an orientation-selective neuron.

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  1. Nicholas J. Priebe is in the Section of Neurobiology, University of Texas at Austin, Austin, Texas 78712, USA.,

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  2. David Ferster is in the Department of Neurobiology and Physiology, Northwestern University, Evanston, Illinois 60208, USA. ferster@northwestern.edu,

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Priebe, N., Ferster, D. Each synapse to its own. Nature 464, 1290–1291 (2010). https://doi.org/10.1038/4641290b

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