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Randomness and Constraints in the Cortical Neuropil

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Information Processing in the Cortex

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Among neuroanatomists working on the cerebral cortex there is a controversy about specificity of connections as opposed to randomness. I want to report on this topic here from the point of view of our research.

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Schüz, A. (1992). Randomness and Constraints in the Cortical Neuropil. In: Aertsen, A., Braitenberg, V. (eds) Information Processing in the Cortex. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-49967-8_1

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