Communication vs. Synchronisation at Neuronal Level

This paper was written by me as coursework during my Master’s degree at the University of Nottingham. The main point of this paper to critically evaluating the proposal of neural synchronisation supports neural
communication. Please note that this paper is not published in any scientific bulletin.

Neurons are the core elements in our brains, and they communicate with each other in order to achieve their goals which we call cognitive functions. Neurons have been investigated by scientists for years and what they agree on we may not have a complete understanding of the brain, but we know that neurons communicate and sometimes show synchronic behaviours. Even though literature shows numerous supportive pieces of evidence that neural synchronisations can support neural communications, in this essay I will try to evaluate the proposal that neural synchronisation supports neural communication in a critical point of view.
So how neurons are communicating with each other? Neuronal communication model refers to the information transfer between neurons in most general terms. When the neuron reaches the action potential with the presence of signal big enough, it gets activated which refers that it takes the input signal and sends it to the neurons which are connected with the help of synapses. Neurons receive various input messages from different neurons they are connected with its dendrites and its duty is to combine these signals and sends the message as an input to the connected cells from its axon terminals (Figure 1). The…