This article unifies neural modeling results that illustrate several basic design principles and
mechanisms that are used by advanced brains to develop cortical maps with multiple …

The cerebral cortex of mammals comprises a series of topographic maps, forming sensory
and motor areas such as those in the visual, auditory, and somatosensory systems …

In this article, we review functional organization in sensory cortical regions—how the cortex
represents the world. We consider four interrelated aspects of cortical organization:(1) the …

In this chapter, we first define a neural map as a sheet of neurons systematically related to
another population of neurons, including the special but common case of a topographic map …

The thirty original contributions in this book provide a working definition of" computational
neuroscience" as the area in which problems lie simultaneously within computerscience and …

A neural model proposes how entorhinal grid cells and hippocampal place cells may
develop as spatial categories in a hierarchy of self-organizing maps (SOMs). The model …

The hippocampus participates in multiple functions, including spatial navigation, adaptive
timing and declarative (notably, episodic) memory. How does it carry out these particular …

This article provides an overview of neural models of synaptic learning and memory whose
expression in adaptive behavior depends critically on the circuits and systems in which the …

Functional maps arise in developing visual cortex as response selectivities become
organized into columnar patterns of population activity. Recent studies of developing …

In all mammals, much of the neocortex consists of orderly representations or maps of
receptor surfaces that are typically topographic at a global level, while being modular at the …