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Nature Physics 4, 905–906 (1 December 2008) | doi:10.1038/nphys1142

Neurophysics: Logic gates come to life

Fred Wolf & Theo Geisel

As you are reading these lines, millions of neurons in your brain are activated. In some still rather opaque way the collective dynamics of these millions of neurons effectively computes subject, predicate, object, and so on, from the stream of observed letters for each sentence, allowing you to understand what is written.