Dendritic computation has become of great interest to the community as evidence from neuroscience has shown the importance of intra-neural mechanisms in creating realistic behaviour and computational experiments have demonstrated that these mechanisms (e.g. local learning within a synaptic cluster and homeostasis) may be of practical use in spike-based computations.

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