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Can mammalian pattern generators be understood?

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  04 February 2010

Sten Grillner
Sten Grillner
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Department of Physiology III, Karolinska Institutet, S- 114 33 Stockholm. Sweden
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Behavioral and Brain Sciences , Volume 3 , Issue 4 , December 1980 , pp. 549 - 550
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