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Leonardo Bellini Coelho1, Maria Cristina Ferreira de Oliveira, Luciano Da Fontoura Costa

  • 1ICMC - Instituto de Ciências Matemáticas e de Computação, Universidade de São Paulo, Av. Trabalhador São-Carlense, 400, C.P. 668, CEP 13560-970 São Carlos, SP, Brazil. lbc@grad.icmc.usp.br

Journal of Integrative Neuroscience
|May 13, 2004
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