Thalamocortical circuits for the formation of hierarchical pathways in the mammalian visual cortex.

"Conflict of interest The authors declare that the research was conducted in the absence of any commercial or financial relationships that could be construed as a potential conflict of interest. The reviewer YY declared a past co-authorship with the author KO to the handling editor."

"This work was supported by Brain/MINDS-AMED (14533320, 15653077, JP16dm0207034, and JP20dm0207048 to KO), the Institute for AI and Beyond (to KO), JST-CREST (JPMJCR22P1 to KO), JSPS KAKENHI (25221001, 19H05642, and 20H05917 to KO and 21K15181 to TM), and JST-Fusion Oriented Research for disruptive Science and Technology (to TM).The authors declare that this study received funding from Institute for AI and Beyond in collaboration with Softbank corporation. The funder was not involved in the study design, collection, analysis, interpretation of data, the writing of this article, or the decision to submit it for publication."