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Membrane voltage variations, in the absence of noise, as a function of time after voltage pulses at a clock-time of 5 ms. The dashed lines show variations after pulses just below and just above the threshold of ≈6.85 mV. The solid lines show variations after pulses of 2, 1, and 0.5 mV.