Wikipedia's first sentence called it “brain researcher from the bar ilan university in israel”. Today it says “israeli brain researcher and neurophysiologist”.
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Moshe Abeles in June 2013 Moshe Abeles ( ; born 1936 in Tel Aviv ) is an Israeli brain researcher from the Bar Ilan University .1Abeles research focuses on the functional circuits in the cerebral cortex . His physiological findings and his models about the functional significance of temporal relations in the cortex led to the famous " synfire chain theory" which how information processing can be carried out through the coordinated dynamic activity of cell assemblies. In 2005 Abeles has founded the Gonda Multidsicpilinary brain research center at Bar-Ilan University , and directed it until 2011. Abeles is the author of several highly cited books in neuroscience, including "Corticonics: Neural circuits of the cerebral cortex" (1991) and 'Local Cortical Circuits: An Electrophysiological Study" (2012).2
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The opening as it stood in 2015
Abeles in June 2013 Moshe Abeles , * 1936 in Tel Aviv , is a brain researcher from the Bar Ilan University in Israel. Abeles research focuses on the functional circuits in the cerebral cortex . His physiological findings and his models about the functional significance of temporal relations in the cortext have resulted in the famous " synfire chain theory".
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Brain researcher Moshe Abeles in June 2013 Moshe Abeles ( ; born 1936 in Tel Aviv ) is an Israeli brain researcher and neurophysiologist . He is emeritus professor at the Hebrew University in Jerusalem and at the Life Science Faculty of Bar Ilan University in Ramat Gan .
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Brain researcher Moshe Abeles ( Hebrew : משה אבלס ; born 1936 in Tel Aviv ) is a Palestinian brain researcher and neurophysiologist . He is emeritus professor at the Hebrew University in Jerusalem and at the Life Science Faculty of Bar Ilan University in Ramat Gan .
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brain researcher from the bar ilan university in israel
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israeli brain researcher and neurophysiologist
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