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The Brain-Wave Model as a Protosemantic Model

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For the last 40 years, the human brain has generally been regarded as an analog of the digital electronic computer, as a vast switching network of 100 billion neurons wired up as in a computer or a telephone net and communicating with one another by means of impulses transmitted electrically along fibers and electrically or chemically across synaptic connections.

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Leinfellner, W. (1988). The Brain-Wave Model as a Protosemantic Model. In: Başar, E. (eds) Dynamics of Sensory and Cognitive Processing by the Brain. Springer Series in Brain Dynamics, vol 1. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-71531-0_27

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