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Published online 31 October 2007 | Nature 450, 21-23 (2007) | doi:10.1038/450021a
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Neuroscience: A gut feeling
When most people look at lobsters, they see dinner. Eve Marder saw a key to the theoretical underpinnings of animal behaviour. Ishani Ganguli reports.
Larry Abbott was a theoretical particle physicist at Brandeis University when he first met Eve Marder at an off-campus retreat to celebrate the induction of a new centre for neuroscience. It was the late 1980s and he was just starting to dip his toes into the statistical mechanics of neural networks.
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