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We used optical imaging of intrinsic signals to simultaneously visualize the orientation, ocular dominance, and spatial frequency maps in cat visual cortex. The analysis of the geometric relationships between these three columnar systems revealed that they are spatially related such that in visual cortex all stimulus features are represented at least once for every point in visual space.
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Hübener, M., Shoham, D., Schulzel, S., Brändle, G., Grinvald, A., Bonhoeffer, T. (1997). Geometric relationships between feature maps in cat visual cortex. In: Gerstner, W., Germond, A., Hasler, M., Nicoud, JD. (eds) Artificial Neural Networks — ICANN'97. ICANN 1997. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 1327. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/BFb0020152
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