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[Gilbert 1983] [Pandya and Yeterian 1985]
Gilbert, C.D., Microcircuitry of the visual-cortex, Annual review of neuroscience, 6: 217-247, 1983. Pandya, D.N. and Yeterian, E.H., Architecture and connections of cortical association areas. In: Peters A, Jones EG, eds. Cerebral Cortex (Vol. 4): Association and Auditory Cortices. New York: Plenum Press, 3-61, 1985.
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The intermediate variables of this algorithm can be assigned to each layer of the cerebral cortex without contradicting the known anatomical structure.