Networks in cognitive systems and biomedicine: cerebral processes, models and mathematical tools design

Diego Cosmelli1, Adrián G Palacios

  • 1Instituto de Sistemas Complejos de Valparaíso, Valparaíso, Chile. dcosmelli@uc.cl

Biological Research
|June 26, 2008
PubMed

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