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SUBMITTER: Kondo S
PROVIDER: S-EPMC5078743 | biostudies-literature | 2016 Oct
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Kondo Satoru S Yoshida Takashi T Ohki Kenichi K
Nature communications 20161021
A minicolumn is the smallest anatomical module in the cortical architecture, but it is still in debate whether it serves as functional units for cortical processing. In the rodent primary visual cortex (V1), neurons with different preferred orientations are mixed horizontally in a salt and pepper manner, but vertical functional organization was not examined. In this study, we found that neurons with similar orientation preference are weakly but significantly clustered vertically in a short lengt ...[more]