summate
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These changes can lead to the neuron reaching threshold if the changes add together, or summate.
From Textbooks • Jun. 19, 2013
Graded potentials summate at a specific location at the beginning of the axon to initiate the action potential, namely the initial segment.
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Graded potentials can be depolarizing or hyperpolarizing and can summate to affect the probability of the neuron reaching threshold.
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It has of course been a mighty agent in evolution, for those who can summate all their energies in attack have survived.
From The Journal of Abnormal Psychology, Volume 10 by Various
If, however, beginning at the second year, we summate the results for each year with those for all previous years, a steady rise from season to season is seen throughout.
From Studies in the Psychology of Sex, Volume 1 The Evolution of Modesty; The Phenomena of Sexual Periodicity; Auto-Erotism by Ellis, Havelock
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