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The brilliant but tragically short-lived — indeed, meteoric — career of David Marr was catapulted into orbit by his “Theory of the Cerebellar Cortex” (1969). One need not belabor the details of this well-publicized theory here (cf. Eccles 1973, Llinàs 1981, Ito 1984, Pellionisz 1985). Rather, three general observations on the theory will be briefly discussed.
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Pellionisz, A.J. (1986). David Marr: A Theory of the Cerebellar Cortex. In: Palm, G., Aertsen, A. (eds) Brain Theory. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-70911-1_22
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