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The sum total of the length of all the nerve cell processes (dendrites and axons) in a given volume of brain substance provides, in a sense, a measure of the information-handling capacity of the nerve tissue. From a different point of view, we may take it as indicating the complexity of the neural operations performed there.
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Braitenberg, V., Schüz, A. (1991). Density of Axons. In: Anatomy of the Cortex. Studies of Brain Function, vol 18. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-662-02728-8_7
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