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Threshold Variations in Cortical Cell Assemblies and Behavior

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There is nothing new under the sun, which is especially true for the neurosciences1. Our present situation is best described by the Italian poet Eugenio Montale:

  • Codesto solo oggi possiamo dirti, ciò che non siamo, ciò che non vogliamo.

  • Was heut’ wir sagen können, ist nur das, was wir nicht sind, was wir nicht wollen.

  • Today we can only say, what we are not, what we don’t want.

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  1. Medizinische Hochschule Hannover, Neurologische Klinik, Konstanty-Gutschow-Straße 8, D-3000, Hannover 61, Germany

    H.-J. Heinze

  2. Medizinische Hochschule Hannover, Neurologische Klinik, D-3000, Hannover 61, Germany

    T. F. Münte

  3. Center for Neuroscience, University of California, Davis, Davis, California, 95616, USA

    George R. Mangun

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Birbaumer, N., Lutzenberger, W., Elbert, T., Trevorrow, T. (1994). Threshold Variations in Cortical Cell Assemblies and Behavior. In: Heinze, HJ., Münte, T.F., Mangun, G.R. (eds) Cognitive Electrophysiology. Birkhäuser, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4612-0283-7_11

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