Methods, systems and computer program products memorize multiple inputs into an artificial neuron that includes multiple dendrites each having multiple dendrite compartments. Operations include computing coincidence detection as distal synapse activation that flows from more proximal ones of the dendrite compartments to a soma of the artificial neuron, generating a dendritic action potential responsive to the coincidence detection from a non-zero activation value input received at a corresponding one of the dendrite compartments that includes a non-zero receptivity, and responsive to generating the dendritic action potential, decrementing the activation value and the receptivity and passing the decremented activation value to a next one of the dendrite compartments.
