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The cortical connection

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Neurons in the brain's visual cortex receive inputs from thousands of other neurons. But it now emerges that each is strongly connected to only a few others: those most similar to itself. See Letter p.399

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Figure 1: Deciphering neuronal networks.

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  1. Benjamin Scholl and Nicholas J. Priebe are in the Department of Neuroscience, The University of Texas, Austin, Texas 78712, USA.,

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