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Electrical Changes in the Cerebral Cortex

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SOME recent newspaper articles have given sensational accounts of the investigations which we have made in Cambridge on the electrical changes taking place in the cerebral cortex. In these articles we are deeply concerned to find ourselves credited with the discovery of the rhythm which can be detected from the human brain by electrodes applied to the scalp.

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ADRIAN, E., MATTHEWS, B. Electrical Changes in the Cerebral Cortex. Nature 134, 901 (1934). https://doi.org/10.1038/134901a0

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