Mexican hats and pinwheels in visual cortex
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Mexican hats and pinwheels in visual cortex.
Many models of cortical function assume that local lateral connections are specific with respect to the preferred features of the interacting cells and that they are organized in a Mexican-hat pattern with strong "center" excitation flanked by strong "surround" inhibition. However, anatomical data on primary visual cortex indicate that the local connections are isotropic and that inhibition has...
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عنوان ژورنال: Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
سال: 2003
ISSN: 0027-8424,1091-6490
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.0138051100