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Generation of Fast and Slow Field Potentials of the Central Nervous System — Studied in Model Epilepsies

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Dynamics of Sensory and Cognitive Processing by the Brain

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This chapter deals with the potentials detectable in the space surrounding cellular elements of central nervous structures. Such potentials, which can in part also be recorded from outside the central nervous system as for example, the electroencephalogram, sensory evoked potentials, contingent negative variatons, etc., are generally called “field potentials.”

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Speckmann, EJ., Walden, J. (1988). Generation of Fast and Slow Field Potentials of the Central Nervous System — Studied in Model Epilepsies. In: Başar, E. (eds) Dynamics of Sensory and Cognitive Processing by the Brain. Springer Series in Brain Dynamics, vol 1. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-71531-0_15

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