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SUBMITTER: Kaschube M
PROVIDER: S-EPMC3138194 | biostudies-other | 2010 Nov
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-other
Kaschube Matthias M Schnabel Michael M Löwel Siegrid S Coppola David M DM White Leonard E LE Wolf Fred F
Science (New York, N.Y.) 20101104 6007
The brain's visual cortex processes information concerning form, pattern, and motion within functional maps that reflect the layout of neuronal circuits. We analyzed functional maps of orientation preference in the ferret, tree shrew, and galago--three species separated since the basal radiation of placental mammals more than 65 million years ago--and found a common organizing principle. A symmetry-based class of models for the self-organization of cortical networks predicts all essential featur ...[more]