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Maintaining a precise representation of sound frequency in auditory cortex is difficult because of converging diffuse thalamocortical inputs. A recent study demonstrates that this is accomplished via recurrent intracortical connections.

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Figure 1: The frequency tuning of auditory cortex neurons is shaped by both thalamocortical and intracortical inputs.

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  1. Department of Biomedical Engineering, The author is at the Laboratory of Auditory Neurophysiology, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland 21205, USA.xiaoqin.wang@jhu.edu,

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Wang, X. A sharper view from the top. Nat Neurosci 10, 1509–1510 (2007). https://doi.org/10.1038/nn1207-1509

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