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Nature Neuroscience 10, 1509 - 1510 (2007)
doi:10.1038/nn1207-1509
A sharper view from the top
Xiaoqin Wang1
- 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
Abstract
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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