# Show Reference: "Orientation Preference Patterns in Mammalian Visual Cortex"

Orientation Preference Patterns in Mammalian Visual Cortex Neuron, Vol. 29, No. 2. (February 2001), pp. 519-527, doi:10.1016/s0896-6273(01)00223-9 by Alexei A. Koulakov, Dmitri B. Chklovskii
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author = {Koulakov, Alexei A. and Chklovskii, Dmitri B.},
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doi = {10.1016/s0896-6273(01)00223-9},
issn = {08966273},
journal = {Neuron},
keywords = {biology, cortex, topographic-maps, visual},
month = feb,
number = {2},
pages = {519--527},
posted-at = {2015-03-05 11:32:14},
priority = {2},
title = {Orientation Preference Patterns in Mammalian Visual Cortex},
url = {http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/s0896-6273(01)00223-9},
volume = {29},
year = {2001}
}



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Koulakov and Chklovskii assume that sensory neurons in cortex preferentially connect to other neurons whose feature-preferences do not differ more than a certain amount from their own feature-preferences. Further, they argue that long connections between neurons incur a metabolic cost. From this, they derive the hypothesis that the patterns of feature selectivity seen in neural populations are the result of minimizing the distance between similarly selective neurons.

Koulakov and Chklovsky show that various selectivity patterns emerge from their theorized cost minimization, given different parameterizations of preference for connections to similarly-tuned neurons.

Sensory maps are not required to ensure coverage of the sensory spectrum.