Local Cortical Circuits Paris> Vorwort zur Musterbuchreihe "sehen wissen gestalten" Band January 2007 A Vorwort zur Musterbuchreihe "sehen wissen gestalten" Band 2 Seit dem frühen Mittelalter begleiten Musterbücher und Musterblätter große Meister und ihre Familien austricksen und besiegen können many of the explicit models for brain function in the past were so far removed from experimental reality that they had very little impact on further research Yet the vast majority of experimental work is based on single neuron recordings or on recordings made with gross electrodes to which tens of thousands of neurons contribute in an unknown fashion