If Postsynaptic Potentials Arrive at the Same Location but a Short

question 18

Multiple Choice

If postsynaptic potentials arrive at the same location but a short time apart,___ will occur.

• A)temporal summation
• B)simultaneous summation
• C)synaptic summation
• D)neural summation

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