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Nature Neuroscience 10, 1404–1406 (1 November 2007) | doi:10.1038/nn1983

A temporal frequency|[ndash]|dependent functional architecture in human V1 revealed by high-resolution fMRI

Pei Sun , Kenichi Ueno , R Allen Waggoner , Justin L Gardner , Keiji Tanaka & Kang Cheng

Although cortical neurons with similar functional properties often cluster together in a columnar organization, only ocular dominance columns, the columnar structure representing segregated anatomical input (from one of the two eyes), have been found in human primary visual cortex (V1). It has yet to be shown whether other columnar organizations that arise only from differential responses to stimulus properties also exist in human V1.