Louis Édouard Lapicque (1 August 1866 – 6 December 1952) was a French

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activist, antiboulangist, dreyfusard and

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who was very influential in the early 20th century. One of his main contributions was to propose the integrate-and-fire model of the neuron in a seminal article published in 1907. Today, this model of the neuron is still one of the most popular models in

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for both cellular and

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studies, as well as in mathematical neuroscience because of its simplicity. A review article was published for the centenary of the original Lapicque's 1907 paper - this review also contains an English translation of the original paper. His wife, Marcelle Lapicque, was also a neurophysiologist. Louis Lapicque "insisted on the importance of his wife as equal co-worker in all his research".. Lapicque laboratoire

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* Notice on titles and scientific works of Louis Lapicque (1908) * Excitability function of time, chronaxie, its meaning and its measure (1926) * Nervous machine (1943) * Neuromuscular isochronism and rythmogenic excitability (1947) * On reaction times according to races and social conditions (1901) * Quantitative research on nervous electrical excitation treated like a polarization (1907) * Consciousness as a cellular function (1952)

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Guide to the Louis Lapicque PapersLouis Lapicque Papers in UTHSCSA Digital Archives
* {{DEFAULTSORT:Lapique, Louis 1866 births French Freemasons 1952 deaths People from Épinal French neuroscientists French physiologists Members of the French Academy of Sciences

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