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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Main Authors: Giorgio Innocenti, Alessandro Vercelli
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Frontiers Media S.A. 2010-03-01
Series:Frontiers in Neuroanatomy
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Online Access:http://journal.frontiersin.org/Journal/10.3389/neuro.05.011.2010/full