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opponent

Anatomy

1. an opponent muscle

2. (of a muscle) bringing two parts into opposition

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These WTA models were used to simulate cortical red-green and blue/yellow hue opponency, by driving the simulated cortical neurons with firing rate data from real primate thalamic wavelength-dependent neurons.

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Democracy and cultural diversity are the two coordinates that had a decisive role in the opponency of the nation state to the supranational governing.

THE CONVERGENT MOTIONS OF THE SOCIAL DIMENSION AND THE CULTURAL DIMENSION. NATIONAL AND EUROPEAN BLUEPRINTS