``Senior author Professor Michael Hausser commented: "This research indicates that single neurons are reliable decoders of temporal sequences of inputs, and that they can play a significant role in sorting and interpreting the enormous barrage of inputs received by the brain.
"This new property of neurons and dendrites adds an important new element to the "toolkit" for computation in the brain. This feature is likely to be widespread across many brain areas and indeed many different animal species, including humans."''
Taken from Physorg.
Alan Turing was a great English mathematician, it would've been good that he knew about this work in his country. Unfortunately he was put in jail for being gay, before different sexual orientations were accepted by society at large.
He invented the Turing machine. It seems that even a dendrite can be a Turing machine.
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