Which of the following scenarios will MOST likely trigger an action potential?
A) multiple EPSPs arriving close in time at a single synapse (temporal summation) on the postsynaptic cell
B) single EPSPs arriving simultaneously at several different synapses (spatial summation) on the postsynaptic cell
C) an EPSP and an IPSP arriving simultaneously on the postsynaptic cell (cancellation)
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