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Zooming in on cortical maps

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In a technical tour de force, Okhi et al. image the activity of thousands of visual cortical neurons in vivo at a single-cell resolution, and examine their orientation and direction selectivity. Their results show that cortical maps can be built with single-cell precision.

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Figure 1: Visualizing the cellular architecture of direction maps.

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