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Banishing “Black/White Thinking”: A Trio of Teaching Tricks

Richard T. Born
eNeuro 27 November 2019, 6 (6) ENEURO.0456-19.2019; https://doi.org/10.1523/ENEURO.0456-19.2019
Richard T. Born
Department of Neurobiology, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts 02115
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https://doi.org/10.1523/ENEURO.0456-19.2019
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  • Received October 31, 2019
  • Revision received November 19, 2019
  • Accepted November 24, 2019
  • Published online November 27, 2019.
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Copyright © 2019 Born This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International license, which permits unrestricted use, distribution and reproduction in any medium provided that the original work is properly attributed.

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  1. Richard T. Born
  1. Department of Neurobiology, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts 02115
  1. Correspondence should be addressed to Richard T. Born at Richard_born{at}hms.harvard.edu.
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  1. Author contributions: R.T.B. wrote the paper.

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  • The author declares no competing financial interests.

  • This work was supported National Institutes of Health Grants T32-EY-007110 and EY-11379 to R.T.B.

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  • HHS | NIH | National Eye Institute (NEI)

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