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    "RWTH Aachen University",
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    "Institut de Neurosciences de la Timone (INT), Aix-Marseille Université, CNRS, Marseille, France",
    "Faculty of Medicine, Institute of Experimental Epileptology and Cognition Research, University of Bonn, Bonn, Germany",
    "Institute of Biological Information Processing (IBI-3), Jülich Research Centre, Jülich, Germany",
    "Institute of Biology 2, RWTH Aachen University, Aachen, Germany",
    "JARA Brain Institute I (INM-10), Jülich Research Centre, Jülich, Germany",
    "Theoretical Systems Neurobiology, RWTH Aachen University, Aachen, Germany"
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  "title": "Detection and Removal of Hyper-synchronous Artifacts in Massively Parallel Spike Recordings",
  "title_text": "Detection and Removal of Hyper-synchronous Artifacts in Massively Parallel Spike Recordings",
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