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Science 6 October 2006:
Vol. 314. no. 5796, pp. 58 - 59
DOI: 10.1126/science.1133986

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NEUROSCIENCE:
The Powers of Rhythm

Pascal Fries


Rhythms of the Brain
by György Buzsáki
Oxford University Press, Oxford, 2006. 464 pp. $69.50, £42. ISBN 0-19-530106-4.
Holding that spontaneous activity of neurons forms the foundation of our cognitive abilities, the author lays out the case for recognizing emergent oscillatory timing as the brain's fundamental organizer of neuronal information.
The reviewer is at the F. C. Donders Centre for Cognitive Neuroimaging, Radboud University Nijmegen, Kapittelweg 29, Nijmegen 6525 EN, Netherlands. E-mail: pascal.fries{at}fcdonders.ru.nl

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