Neurons in the brain's visual cortex receive inputs from thousands of other neurons. But it now emerges that each is strongly connected to only a few others: those most similar to itself. See Letter p.399
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Scholl, B., Priebe, N. The cortical connection. Nature 518, 306–307 (2015). https://doi.org/10.1038/nature14201
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