{"id":142659,"date":"2022-07-22T14:22:33","date_gmt":"2022-07-22T19:22:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/07\/is-a-neurons-information-processing-more-complex-than-a-perceptron"},"modified":"2022-07-22T14:22:33","modified_gmt":"2022-07-22T19:22:33","slug":"is-a-neurons-information-processing-more-complex-than-a-perceptron","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/07\/is-a-neurons-information-processing-more-complex-than-a-perceptron","title":{"rendered":"Is a neuron\u2019s information processing more complex than a perceptron?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/is-a-neurons-information-processing-more-complex-than-a-perceptron2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>I\u2019ve been researching the relationship between brain neurons and nodes in neural networks. Repeatedly it is claimed neurons can do complex information processing that vastly exceeds that of a simple activation function in a neural network.<\/p>\n<p>The resources I\u2019ve read so far suggest nothing fancy is happening with a neuron. The neuron sums the incoming signals from synapses, and then fires when the sum passes a threshold. This is identical to the simple <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Perceptron\" rel=\"noreferrer\">perceptron<\/a>, the precursor to today\u2019s fancy neural networks. If there is more to a neuron\u2019s operation that this, I am missing it due to lack of familiarity with the neuroscience terminology. I\u2019ve also perused this stack exchange, and haven\u2019t found anything.<\/p>\n<p>If someone could point to a detailed resource that explains the different complex ways a neuron processes the incoming information, in particular what makes a neuron a more sophisticated information processor than a perceptron, I would be grateful.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I\u2019ve been researching the relationship between brain neurons and nodes in neural networks. Repeatedly it is claimed neurons can do complex information processing that vastly exceeds that of a simple activation function in a neural network. The resources I\u2019ve read so far suggest nothing fancy is happening with a neuron. The neuron sums the incoming [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":599,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[47,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-142659","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-neuroscience","category-robotics-ai"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/142659","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/599"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=142659"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/142659\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=142659"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=142659"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=142659"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}