Neural representations in the brain where specific stimulus characteristics are spatially organized, allowing for systematic processing of sensory information and feature detection.
Example: The retinotopic organization of visual cortex where neighboring neurons respond to adjacent parts of the visual field, creating an organized map of visual space.
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