The repetitive stochastic patterns of eye dominance and orientation preference found in the
mammalian visual cortex have attracted much attention from theoretical neurobiologists …

Orientation and ocular dominance maps in the primary visual cortex of mammals are among
the most thoroughly investigated of the patterns in the cerebral cortex. A considerable …

Though mathematical ideas underpin the study of neural networks, the author presents the
fundamentals without the full mathematical apparatus. All aspects of the field are tackled …

Theoretical neuroscience provides a quantitative basis for describing what nervous systems
do, determining how they function, and uncovering the general principles by which they …

In order to deal with a complex environment, animals form a diverse range of neural
representations that vary across cortical areas, ranging from largely unimodal sensory input …

Biological structures can be seen as collections of special devices coordinated by a matrix of
organization. Devices are dif? cult to evolve and are meticulously conserved through the …

Sensory experience plays an instructive role in the development of the nervous system.
Here we showed that visual experience can induce persistent modification of developing …

During development, cortical activity is organized into distributed modular patterns that are a
precursor of the mature columnar functional architecture. Theoretically, such structured …

Inferotemporal (IT) cortex in humans and other primates is topographically organized,
containing multiple hierarchically organized areas selective for particular domains, such as …

This article presents a self-organizing neural network model for the simultaneous and
cooperative development of topographic receptive fields and lateral interactions in cortical …