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“The machinery may be roughly uniform over the whole striate cortex, the difference being in the inputs. A given region of the cortex simply digests what is brought to it, and the process is the same everywhere. It may be that there is a great developmental advantage in designing such a machinery once only, and repeating it over and over monotonously, like a crystal”—Hubel and Wiesel, 1974
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Douglas, R.J., Martin, K.A.C. (1992). In Search of the Canonical Microcircuits of Neocortex. In: Lent, R. (eds) The Visual System from Genesis to Maturity. Birkhäuser, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4899-6726-8_16
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