Geometric and functional organization of cortical circuits
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Shepherd, G. M. G., Stepanyants, A., Bureau, I., Chklovskii, D., & Svoboda, K. (2005). Geometric and functional organization of cortical circuits. Nature Neuroscience, 8(6), 782–790.

Authors 5
  1. Gordon M G Shepherd (first)
  2. Armen Stepanyants (additional)
  3. Ingrid Bureau (additional)
  4. Dmitri Chklovskii (additional)
  5. Karel Svoboda (additional)
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@article{Shepherd_2005, title={Geometric and functional organization of cortical circuits}, volume={8}, ISSN={1546-1726}, url={http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/nn1447}, DOI={10.1038/nn1447}, number={6}, journal={Nature Neuroscience}, publisher={Springer Science and Business Media LLC}, author={Shepherd, Gordon M G and Stepanyants, Armen and Bureau, Ingrid and Chklovskii, Dmitri and Svoboda, Karel}, year={2005}, month=may, pages={782–790} }