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Information and Mathematical Quantification of Brain State

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Behavior and Brain Electrical Activity

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“A certain Dr. Brown, on being rebuked because he had failed to acknowledge some previous work on the subject of his writings replied: ‘I make no claim to originality for I have long since found that to consider oneself original one must read nothing at all. All I have done is to describe those methods which I have found to suit me best in practice.’ ”

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Thatcher, R.W., John, E.R. (1975). Information and Mathematical Quantification of Brain State. In: Burch, N., Altshuler, H.L. (eds) Behavior and Brain Electrical Activity. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4613-4434-6_14

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