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SUBMITTER: Meyer HS
PROVIDER: S-EPMC3839692 | biostudies-literature | 2013 Nov
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Meyer Hanno S HS Egger Robert R Guest Jason M JM Foerster Rita R Reissl Stefan S Oberlaender Marcel M
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America 20131007 47
The cellular organization of the cortex is of fundamental importance for elucidating the structural principles that underlie its functions. It has been suggested that reconstructing the structure and synaptic wiring of the elementary functional building block of mammalian cortices, the cortical column, might suffice to reverse engineer and simulate the functions of entire cortices. In the vibrissal area of rodent somatosensory cortex, whisker-related "barrel" columns have been referred to as pot ...[more]