Assume a neuron receives EPSPs and IPSPs from several adjacent neurons. How might that neuron's

threshold potential be reached, causing it to produce its own action potential?



a. if IPSPs outnumber EPSPs
b. temporal summation
c. spatial summation
d. temporal and spatial summation
e. if IPSPs equal EPSPs


D

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