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On the unified laws of excitability, activity and interactivity of physiological systems

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Laws of excitability, activity and interactivity were established in their basic forms concerning not only the slope and time factors of an effective stimulus to a physiological system, but also concerning relative differences in the stimulus, moving stimulus, reciprocal inhibition, etc., and further the basis was established for the unification of these laws in the above various situations.

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Sato, K. On the unified laws of excitability, activity and interactivity of physiological systems. Kybernetik 9, 45–55 (1971). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00270851

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