Multiple Choice
When two excitatory postsynaptic potentials (EPSPs) occur at a single synapse so rapidly in succession that the postsynaptic neuron's membrane potential has not returned to the resting potential before the second EPSP arrives, the EPSPs add together producing ________.
A) temporal summation
B) spatial summation
C) tetanus
D) the refractory state
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