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Signals far and away

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The neocortex of the mammalian brain mediates functions such as sensory perception and ultimately consciousness and language. The spread of local signals across large distances in this brain region has now been clarified.

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Figure 1: Layers and domains.

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  1. and in the Department of Psychiatry and Psychotherapy, Dirk Feldmeyer is at the Institute of Neuroscience and Medicine, INM-2, Research Centre Jülich, RWTH Aachen University, D-52074 Aachen, Germany.,

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Feldmeyer, D. Signals far and away. Nature 464, 1134–1136 (2010). https://doi.org/10.1038/4641134a

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