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Various important cognitive tasks such as the recognition and behavioral response to complex natural scenes are accomplished within a few hundred milliseconds after stimulus onset [1]. Since at least a dozen successive cortical areas are involved in this task, on average no more than 30 milliseconds are available per processing level.
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Herz, A.V.M. (1995). Rapid Neural Synchronization: From Spiking Cells to Synfire Webs. In: Kappen, B., Gielen, S. (eds) Neural Networks: Artificial Intelligence and Industrial Applications. Springer, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4471-3087-1_3
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