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This paper is concerned with the “neuronal machinery” which is at the basis of observed psychophysiological phenomena. The “building blocks” are synapses, nerve fibers, and some simple nerve nets, since ultimately all psychophysical observations and, beyond that, all behavior mediated by the nervous system, must be explicable through the operations of these “building blocks.”
Thanks are due to Tom Mathieson for his help in some computations on synaptic transmission.
This work has been supported by NIND grant R03-NB-06682 and in part by NASA grant NGR 33-015-016.
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Leibovic, K.N., Sabah, N.H. (1969). On Synaptic Transmission, Neural Signals and Psychophysiological Phenomena. In: Leibovic, K.N. (eds) Information Processing in The Nervous System. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-662-25549-0_14
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