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  • 2010Journal Article
    [["dc.bibliographiccitation.firstpage","1113"],["dc.bibliographiccitation.issue","6007"],["dc.bibliographiccitation.journal","Science"],["dc.bibliographiccitation.lastpage","1116"],["dc.bibliographiccitation.volume","330"],["dc.contributor.author","Kaschube, Matthias"],["dc.contributor.author","Schnabel, Michael"],["dc.contributor.author","Löwel, Siegrid"],["dc.contributor.author","Coppola, David M."],["dc.contributor.author","White, Leonard E."],["dc.contributor.author","Wolf, Fred"],["dc.date.accessioned","2017-09-07T11:46:14Z"],["dc.date.available","2017-09-07T11:46:14Z"],["dc.date.issued","2010"],["dc.description.abstract","The brain’s visual cortex processes information concerning form, pattern, and motion within functional maps that reflect the layout of neuronal circuits. We analyzed functional maps of orientation preference in the ferret, tree shrew, and galago—three species separated since the basal radiation of placental mammals more than 65 million years ago—and found a common organizing principle. A symmetry-based class of models for the self-organization of cortical networks predicts all essential features of the layout of these neuronal circuits, but only if suppressive long-range interactions dominate development. We show mathematically that orientation-selective long-range connectivity can mediate the required interactions. Our results suggest that self-organization has canalized the evolution of the neuronal circuitry underlying orientation preference maps into a single common design."],["dc.identifier.doi","10.1126/science.1194869"],["dc.identifier.gro","3151861"],["dc.identifier.uri","https://resolver.sub.uni-goettingen.de/purl?gro-2/8691"],["dc.language.iso","en"],["dc.notes.status","final"],["dc.notes.submitter","chake"],["dc.relation.issn","0036-8075"],["dc.title","Universality in the Evolution of Orientation Columns in the Visual Cortex"],["dc.type","journal_article"],["dc.type.internalPublication","unknown"],["dc.type.peerReviewed","no"],["dspace.entity.type","Publication"]]
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  • 2012Journal Article
    [["dc.bibliographiccitation.issue","6080"],["dc.bibliographiccitation.journal","Science"],["dc.bibliographiccitation.volume","336"],["dc.contributor.author","Keil, Wolfgang"],["dc.contributor.author","Kaschube, Matthias"],["dc.contributor.author","Schnabel, Michael"],["dc.contributor.author","Kisvarday, Zoltan F."],["dc.contributor.author","Löwel, Siegrid"],["dc.contributor.author","Coppola, David M."],["dc.contributor.author","White, Leonard E."],["dc.contributor.author","Wolf, Fred"],["dc.date.accessioned","2017-09-07T11:46:13Z"],["dc.date.available","2017-09-07T11:46:13Z"],["dc.date.issued","2012"],["dc.description.abstract","Meng et al. conjecture that pinwheel density scales with body and brain size. Our data, spanning a 40-fold range of body sizes in Laurasiatheria and Euarchonta, do not support this conclusion. The noncolumnar layout in Glires also appears size-insensitive. Thus, body and brain size may be understood as a constraint on the evolution of visual cortical circuitry, but not as a determining factor."],["dc.identifier.doi","10.1126/science.1206416"],["dc.identifier.gro","3151851"],["dc.identifier.uri","https://resolver.sub.uni-goettingen.de/purl?gro-2/8680"],["dc.language.iso","en"],["dc.notes.status","final"],["dc.notes.submitter","chake"],["dc.relation.issn","0036-8075"],["dc.title","Response to Comment on \"Universality in the Evolution of Orientation Columns in the Visual Cortex\""],["dc.type","journal_article"],["dc.type.internalPublication","unknown"],["dc.type.peerReviewed","no"],["dspace.entity.type","Publication"]]
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  • 2006Journal Article
    [["dc.bibliographiccitation.artnumber","545"],["dc.bibliographiccitation.issue","9"],["dc.bibliographiccitation.journal","Society of Neuroscience Abstracts"],["dc.bibliographiccitation.volume","32"],["dc.contributor.author","Kaschube, Matthias"],["dc.contributor.author","Schnabel, Michael"],["dc.contributor.author","Löwel, Siegrid"],["dc.contributor.author","Coppola, David"],["dc.contributor.author","White, Leonard E."],["dc.contributor.author","Wolf, Fred"],["dc.date.accessioned","2017-11-22T07:38:22Z"],["dc.date.available","2017-11-22T07:38:22Z"],["dc.date.issued","2006"],["dc.description.abstract","The organization of orientation columns into pinwheel-like patterns has been observed in a wide variety of animal species including galago, ferret, and tree shrew. These mammals have been separated for more than 50 million years of evolution, occupy different ecological niches, and exhibiting distinct patterns of visual behavior. Consequently, many features of their visual systems differ substantially. Here we show that despite this divergence, basic statistics of the pinwheel pattern are universal in the primary visual cortex of galagos, ferrets, and tree shrews. We analyzed the spatial organization of pinwheels in orientation maps obtained by intrinsic optical imaging using a novel pinwheel analysis method that is robust against noise. In particular, we focused on the pinwheel density, i.e. the mean number of pinwheels per area with linear extent of one column spacing. In 26 tree shrew hemispheres, the average pinwheel density was 3.12 (0.04) [mean (s.e.m.)] with mean pinwheel densities in individual maps ranging from 2.7 to 3.5. In 9 galago hemispheres, pinwheel densities varied comparably with an average of 3.18 (0.09). An average pinwheel density of 3.16 (0.03) was found in a sample of 82 ferret hemispheres with values ranging between 2.0 and 4.0 for individual ferrets. Thus, the average pinwheel density was indistinguishable in the three species. The total average was 3.14 (0.03). The variation among different hemispheres was mainly determined by the typical size of the analyzed regions in the maps. In addition to the density, we observed almost identical nearest neighbor statistics of pinwheels in all three species. Theoretical analyses show that the observed universal statistics are quantitatively reproduced by models of cortical self-organization dominated by long-range interactions. We conclude that the experimentally observed universal pinwheel statistics are emergent signatures of a dominant role of long-range interactions in the self-organization of cortical circuits."],["dc.identifier.uri","https://resolver.sub.uni-goettingen.de/purl?gro-2/10168"],["dc.language.iso","en"],["dc.notes.status","final"],["dc.title","Universal pinwheel statistics in the visual cortex"],["dc.type","journal_article"],["dc.type.internalPublication","yes"],["dspace.entity.type","Publication"]]
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