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The brain perceives its environment, it feels, compares, infers and initiates and controls behaviour and language—and much more. How does all this arise from a single fertilized egg?
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Strüber, N., Roth, G. (2023). Developmental Neurobiology. In: Roth, G., Heinz, A., Walter, H. (eds) Psychoneuroscience. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-662-65774-4_5
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