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Cerebral cortex

How the brain’s primary processing units compute to give rise to intelligence

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  1. Key Laboratory of Brain Cognition and Brain-inspired Intelligence Technology, Institute of Neuroscience, Center for Excellence in Brain Science and Intelligence Technology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Shanghai, China

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Xu, Nl. How the brain’s primary processing units compute to give rise to intelligence. Nat. Rev. Neurosci. 25, 288 (2024). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41583-024-00810-4

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