Maps in the brain: What can we learn from them?

Annual Review of Neuroscience

Volumn 27, Issue , 2004, Pages 369-392

  Chklovskii, Dmitri B ^a   Koulakov, Alexei A ^a  

^a Howard Hughes Medical Institute Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Cold Spring Harbor   (United States)

Author keywords

Cerebral cortex; Cortical map; Optimization; Visual processing; Wiring economy

Indexed keywords

BRAIN CELL; BRAIN FUNCTION; BRAIN MAPPING; DENDRITE; EYE DOMINANCE; NERVE CELL; NERVE CELL NETWORK; NERVE FIBER; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUESTIONNAIRE; RETINA NERVE CELL; RETINA RECEPTIVE FIELD; REVIEW; VISION; VISUAL CORTEX; VISUAL FIELD; VISUAL ORIENTATION;

ANIMALS; AXONS; BRAIN MAPPING; DENDRITES; HUMANS; NERVE NET; NEURAL PATHWAYS; VISUAL CORTEX; VISUAL FIELDS; VISUAL PATHWAYS;

EID: 4043141423     PISSN: 0147006X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1146/annurev.neuro.27.070203.144226     Document Type: Review

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