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An Experimental Platform to Study the Closed-loop Performance of Brain-machine Interfaces
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An Experimental Platform to Study the Closed-loop Performance of Brain-machine Interfaces

Published on: March 10, 2011

Stability characteristics of positive feedback in a neural population

W J Freeman

    IEEE Transactions on Bio-Medical Engineering
    |September 1, 1974
    PubMed
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