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Nature Physics 4, 905 - 906 (2008)
doi:10.1038/nphys1142

Subject Categories: Biological physics | Information theory and computation | Techniques and instrumentation

Neurophysics: Logic gates come to life

Fred Wolf1 & Theo Geisel1

  1. Fred Wolf and Theo Geisel are at the Max Planck Institute for Dynamics and Self-Organization, the Bernstein Center for Computational Neuroscience and the Faculty of Physics, University of Göttingen, Bunsenstrasse 10, 37073 Göttingen, Germany.
    e-mail: geisel@nld.ds.mpg.de; e-mail: fred-wl@nld.ds.mpg.de


Nerve cells have the ability to self-organize into strongly interacting networks, even when grown in a Petri dish. Controlling the geometry of such cell cultures might be all that is needed to set up neuronal computing devices.

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