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Coordinated Optimization of Visual Cortical Maps (I) Symmetry-based Analysis 1,2,3,4 1,5 ¨ 3,6 7 5,8 Lars Reichl *, Dominik Heide , Siegrid Lowel , Justin C. Crowley , Matthias Kaschube , Fred Wolf1,2,3,4,9* ¨ ¨ 1 Max-Planck-Institute for Dynamics and Self-Organization, Gottingen, Germany, 2 Bernstein Center for Computational Neuroscience, Gottingen, Germany, 3 Bernstein ¨ ¨ Focus Neurotechnology, Gottingen, Germany, 4 Faculty of Physics, Georg-August University, Gottingen, Germany, 5 Frankfurt Institute of Advanced Studies, Frankfurt, ¨ Germany, 6 School of Biology, Georg-August University, Gottingen, Germany, 7 Carnegie Mellon University, Department of Biological Sciences, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States of America, 8 Physics Department and Lewis-Sigler Institute, Princeton University, Princeton, New Jersey, United States of America, 9 Kavli Institute for Theoretical Physics, University of California, Santa Barbara, California, United States of America Abstract In the primary visual cortex of primates and carnivores, functional architecture can be characterized by maps of various stimulus features such as orientation preference (OP), ocular dominance (OD), and spatial frequency. It is a long-standing question in theoretical neuroscience whether the observed maps should be interpreted as optima of a specific energy functional that summarizes the design princ