I've been searching and searching for biologically plausible ways to set neuron activation threshold levels. I hate how things seem easy until you start doing them.
I could use a random number, but what should the range be? Surely a neuron that has 1000 inputs should have a different threshold to a neuron that has 10 inputs?
I'm reading, http://nba.uth.tmc.edu/neuroscience/s1/index.htm. It's rather good.
Dendrites collect inputs and pass them to the soma. The soma generates an output if the inputs exceed a threshold. The axon transmits the output to other neurons.
Sending neurons are called pre-synaptic cells and receiving neurons are called post-synaptic cells. Neurons often connect to 10,000 post-synaptic cells.
The other part of the challenge is setting the output of a neuron. How do you make sure the range is between 0 and 1 if you don't know what the range of the input is?
In biological models, the output is 0 or a fixed number, no matter the input.
Neurons have fixed thresholds. If an activation level is high, the output does not increase in size, rather, it increases in frequency.
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