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It may be recalled (Sect. 2.15) that three types of neuronal organization can be called “brain maps”: sets of feature-sensitive cells, ordered projections between neuronal layers, and ordered anatomical maps of abstract features. The latter reflect the most central properties of the organism’s experiences and other occurrences. Such feature maps are probably learned in a process that involves parallel input to neurons in a brain area and adaptation of neurons in the neighborhood of the cells that respond most strongly to this input.
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Kohonen, T. (2001). Physiological Interpretation of SOM. In: Self-Organizing Maps. Springer Series in Information Sciences, vol 30. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-56927-2_4
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