Shunting
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:''This article relates to a neurological event; for the railway-related activity, see [[switcher|shunter]] and [[shunt (railway operations)]].''
'''Shunting''' is an event in the [[neuron]] which occurs when an [[excitatory postsynaptic potential]] and an [[inhibitory postsynaptic potential]] are occurring close to each other on a [[dendrite]], or are both on the [[Soma (biology)|soma]] of the cell.
==See also==
* [[Spatial summation]]
* [[Temporal summation]]
[[Category:Neurophysiology]]