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From retina to cortex: an unexpected division of labor [VIDEO]

April 27, 2016Max Planck Florida Institute for Neuroscience

Topology of ON and OFF inputs in visual cortex enables an invariant columnar architecture
Kuo-Sheng Lee, Xiaoying Huang, and David Fitzpatrick.
Nature, Published online, April 27, 2016.
DOI: 10.1038/nature17941

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