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Mammalian-brain-inspired neuromorphic motion-cognition nerve achieves cross-modal perceptual enhancement

Inspired by the ability of mammalian brains for spatial perception, Jiang et al. develop a flexible electronic nerve capable to process multi-sensory information for enhanced motion recognition tasks.

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