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Neuroscience: Where is the brain in the Human Brain Project?

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Europe's €1-billion science and technology project needs to clarify its goals and establish transparent governance, say Yves Frégnac and Gilles Laurent.

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  1. Yves Frégnac is a CNRS research director and head of the CNRS Unit of Neuroscience, Information and Complexity in Gif-sur-Yvette, France.,

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  2. Gilles Laurent is director at the Max Planck Institute for Brain Research in Frankfurt, Germany.,

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Frégnac, Y., Laurent, G. Neuroscience: Where is the brain in the Human Brain Project?. Nature 513, 27–29 (2014). https://doi.org/10.1038/513027a

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