Topographic maps in the brain

A topographic map is a representation in which spatial location of activity within a neuronal array encodes some important feature of a stimulus. Such maps are a fundamental strategy of sensory processing in mammalian species Keywords: projection maps; computational mapping; multiple streams; cortical map

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