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Taddei-Ferretti, C., Musio, C. (1999). The neural net of Hydra and the modulation of its periodic activity. In: Mira, J., Sánchez-Andrés, J.V. (eds) Foundations and Tools for Neural Modeling. IWANN 1999. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 1606. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/BFb0098167

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