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THE nature of the transformation of patterns of excitation within the cerebellar cortex may be explained by the following argument, based mainly on histological evidence and on some simple physiological assumptions.
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BRAITENBERG, V. Functional Interpretation of Cerebellar Histology. Nature 190, 539–540 (1961). https://doi.org/10.1038/190539b0
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