Cortical Organisation

A topic within Neuroanatomy, itself one of 10 topics in that field and part of Neuroscience.

Reading on Cortical Organisation

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Paper2005

The Cortical Column: A Structure Without a Function

Jonathan Horton & Daniel Adams

Reviews the anatomical evidence for cortical columns and concludes most species show no sharp modular boundaries, challenging the column as a general organising principle.

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Neuroscience · Neuroanatomy

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Paper1997

The Columnar Organization of the Neocortex

Vernon B. Mountcastle

Argues the neocortex is built from a repeating columnar module of a few thousand neurons, making the column the basic unit of cortical computation.

Neuroscience · Neuroanatomy

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Reading on Cortical Organisation

The Cortical Column: A Structure Without a Function

The Columnar Organization of the Neocortex

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