Temporal Summation
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Synaptic & Junctional Transmission — Ganong's Review of Medical Physiology▶ 25:04Let's apply that to the two main types of summationFirst, temporal summationTemporal summation is all about timing, so it relies on the time constantSkeletal & Smooth Muscle Physiology Explained — Medical Physiology: Principles for Clinical Medicine▶ 22:14The macroscopic force of a whole muscle is controlled in two primary waysYou have temporal summation, which controls how frequently we stimulate a single fiberAnd spatial summation, which controls how many motor units we activate overallPhysiological Development and Phenotypic Plasticity — Animal Physiology: From Genes to Organisms▶ 19:44Both in time and spaceTemporal summation is when a single presynaptic neuron fires repeatedly in quick successionThe EPSPs, or IPSPs, arise so close together that they build on each other