Dendritic bundles, minicolumns, columns, and cortical output units
The search for the fundamental building block of the cerebral cortex has highlighted three structures, perpendicular to the cortical surface: i) columns of neurons with radially invariant response properties, e.g., receptive field position, sensory modality, stimulus orientation or direction, freque...
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Format: | Article |
Language: | English |
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Frontiers Media S.A.
2010-03-01
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Series: | Frontiers in Neuroanatomy |
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Online Access: | http://journal.frontiersin.org/Journal/10.3389/neuro.05.011.2010/full |