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Although networks of real and modelled neurones have much in common they are studied for very different reasons and in very different ways. Brains are historical entities handed over by the process of natural selection and shaped by their individual lives. They are given and we are well aware of their overall abilities to direct body function and movement and to provide sensation, mental activity and social interaction. Apart from how brains are put together during development the key question in neurobiology is — not what they do — but how they do it!
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Hounsgaard, J., Midtgaard, J. (1990). Complex information processing in real neurones. In: Soulié, F.F., Hérault, J. (eds) Neurocomputing. NATO ASI Series, vol 68. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-76153-9_44
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