The columnar organization of the neocortex

Brain

Volumn 120, Issue 4, 1997, Pages 701-722

  Mountcastle, Vernon B ^a  

^a JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Columnar organization; Distributed systems; Modules; Neocortex; Primates

Indexed keywords

GLIAL FIBRILLARY ACIDIC PROTEIN;

AUDITORY CORTEX; BRAIN CELL; CELL MIGRATION; CELL TYPE; INHIBITORY POSTSYNAPTIC POTENTIAL; MONKEY; MOTOR CORTEX; NEOCORTEX; NEUROANATOMY; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; SOMATOSENSORY CORTEX; VISUAL CORTEX;

EID: 0031002495     PISSN: 00068950     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/brain/120.4.701     Document Type: Review

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