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- Terminal Buttons
- Scaling Potential
- Extracellular Electrical Activity
- Positive Equilibrium Potential
- Axon Hillock
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Prieto, N., Wrobleski, J. (2018). Action Potentials. In: Vonk, J., Shackelford, T. (eds) Encyclopedia of Animal Cognition and Behavior. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-47829-6_1268-2
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