27 Mar threshold

The level of electric action potential that must be reached to cause a neuron or node in an artificial system to fire or become activated as the result of a spike of excitatory action potential (depolarization). Threshold functions can be either square or sigmoidal. See textual references below.
Keywords: weight
spike
resting potential
node
hyperpolarization
firing
asymptote
anticholinesterase
activation
action potential
depolarization
E/I
References: algorithms
associationism
chaos
connectionism
fuzzy logic
learning
neural networks
pattern recognition