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Neural mechanisms for the concepts of difference and similarity

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A neurobiophysical mechanism which reacts todifferences in different modalities of a stimulus pattern is suggested. Another mechanism is suggested which reacts tosimilarity. The latter is measured by the number of neurons in common to the two stimulus patterns.

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Landahl, H.D. Neural mechanisms for the concepts of difference and similarity. Bulletin of Mathematical Biophysics 7, 83–88 (1945). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02478456

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