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Horiuchi, T.K., Massoud, T.M. (2014). Neuromorphic Sensors, Head Direction. In: Jaeger, D., Jung, R. (eds) Encyclopedia of Computational Neuroscience. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4614-7320-6_117-1

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