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Nature Neuroscience 10, 1509 - 1510 (2007)
doi:10.1038/nn1207-1509

A sharper view from the top

Xiaoqin Wang1

  1. The author is at the Laboratory of Auditory Neurophysiology, Department of Biomedical Engineering, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland 21205, USA.e-mail: xiaoqin.wang@jhu.edu


Maintaining a precise representation of sound frequency in auditory cortex is difficult because of converging diffuse thalamocortical inputs. A recent study demonstrates that this is accomplished via recurrent intracortical connections.

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