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- 1978
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- article
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- 238
- Issue
- 2
- Pages
- 92-103
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- 72
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Gordon M. Shepherd
(1978).
Microcircuits in the Nervous System.
Scientific American
, 238
(2)
, 92-103.
https://doi.org/10.1038/scientificamerican0278-92
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- 10.1038/scientificamerican0278-92