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Valentino Braitenberg
Born: June 18, 1926
Died: September 9, 2011 (aged 85)
Bio: Valentino Braitenberg was a neuroscientist and cyberneticist. He was former director at the Max Planck Institute for Biological Cybernetics in Tübingen, Germany.
Known for:
- Anatomy of the cortex (1991)
- On the texture of brains (1977)
- Ill, oder, Der Engel und die Philosophen (1999)
- Gescheit sein (1987)