Neural Circuits

Divergent Circuits

single neuron sends messages to downstream neurons; single neural pool relays output to several circuits downstream; allows input from one pathway to be branched out and divided that goes to hundreds of other nervous system locations

Convergent Circuit

Opposite of Diverging Circuit; multiple inputs get funneled down into one singular output

Reverberating Curcuit

Neurons activate in linear path from sensory to motor neurons; some advanced neurons will send signals back to the previous neurons, causing restimulation of previous neurons; this will repeat until a neuron fails to fire or something inhibits the signal

Parallel-after discharge circuit

input from one neuron splits and activates other neurons; each chain has a different number of neurons but, at the end, they all come back to one or few output neurons