The cost of cortical computation

Current Biology

Volumn 13, Issue 6, 2003, Pages 493-497

  Lennie, Peter ^a  

^a NEW YORK UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EID: 0037452922     PISSN: 09609822     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0960-9822(03)00135-0     Document Type: Article

References (28)

1. Lennie, P. (1998). Single units and visual cortical organization. Perception 27, 889-935.
2. Barlow, H.B. (1961). The coding of sensory messages. In Current Problems in Animal Behaviour, W.H. Thorpe and O.L. Zangwill, eds. (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press), pp. 331-360.
3. Barlow, H.B. (1972). Single units and sensation: a neuron doctrine for perceptual psychology? Perception 1, 371-394.
4. Attwell, D., and Laughlin, S.B. (2001). An energy budget for signaling in the grey matter of the brain. J. Cereb. Blood Flow Metab. 21, 1133-1145.
5. Braitenberg, V., and Schütz, A. (1998). Cortex: Statistics and Geometry of Neuronal Connectivity, Second Edition (Berlin: Springer).
6. Rockel, A.J., Hiorns, R.W., and Powell, T.P.S. (1980). The basic uniformity in structure of the neocortex. Brain 103, 221-244.
7. Haug, H. (1987). Brain sizes, surfaces, and neuronal sizes of the cortex cerebri: a stereological investigation of man and his variability and a comparison with some mammals (primates, whales, marsupials, insectivores, and one elephant). Am. J. Anat. 180, 126-142.
8. Markram, H., Lübke, J., Frotscher, M., Roth, A., and Sakmann, B. (1997). Physiology and anatomy of synaptic connections between thick tufted pyramidal neurones in the developing rat neocortex. J. Physiol. 500, 409-440.
9. Hardingham, N.R., and Larkman, A.U. (1998). The reliability of excitatory synaptic transmission in slices of rat visual cortex in vitro is temperature dependent. J. Physiol. 507, 249-256.
10. Fox, P.T., Raichle, M.E., Mintun, M.A., and Dence, C. (1988). Nonoxidative glucose consumption during focal physiologic neural activity. Science 241, 462-464.
11. 13C NMR. Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA 96, 8235-8240.
12. 13C magnetic resonance spectroscopy. J. Neurosci. Res. 66, 737-746.
13. Stryer, L. (1995). Biochemistry, Fourth Edition (New York: Freeman).
14. Stephan, H., Frahm, H., and Baron, G. (1981). New and revised data on volumes of brain structures in insectivores and primates. Folia Primatol. 35, 1-29.
15. Ames, A., III. (2000). CNS energy metabolism as related to function. Brain Res. Rev. 34, 42-68.
16. Clarke, D.D., and Sokoloff, L. (1994). Circulation and energy metabolism of the brain. In Basic Neurochemistry, G.J. Siegel, B.W. Agranoff, R.W. Albers, and P.B. Molinoff, eds. (New York: Raven), pp. 645-680.
17. Miller, E.K., Erickson, C.A., and Desimone, R. (1996). Neural mechanisms of visual working memory in prefrontal cortex of the macaque. J. Neurosci. 16, 5154-5167.
18. DiCarlo, J.J., and Maunsell, J.H. (2000). Form representation in monkey inferotemporal cortex is virtually unaltered by free viewing. Nat. Neurosci. 3, 814-821.
19. Sheinberg, D.L., and Logothetis, N.K. (2001). Noticing familiar objects in real world scenes: the role of temporal cortical neurons in natural vision. J. Neurosci. 21, 1340-1350.
20. Heeger, D.J., and Ress, D. (2002). What does fMRI tell us about neuronal activity? Nat. Rev. Neurosci. 3, 142-151.
21. Heeger, D.J., Huk, A.C., Geisler, W.S., and Albrecht, D.G. (2000). Spikes versus BOLD: what does neuroimaging tell us about neuronal activity? Nat. Neurosci. 3, 631-633.
22. Levy, W., and Baxter, R.A. (1996). Energy-efficient neural codes. Neural Comput. 8, 531-543.
23. Broadbent, D.E. (1971). Decision and Stress (London: Academic Press).
24. Tramo, M.J., Loftus, W.C., Thomas, C.E., Green, R.L., Mott, L.A., and Gazzaniga, M.S. (1995). Surface area of human cerebral cortex and its gross morphological subdivisions: in vivo measurements in monozygotic twins suggest differential hemisphere effects of genetic factors. J. Cogn. Neurosci. 7, 292-302.
25. Fischl, B., and Dale, A.M. (2000). Measuring the thickness of the human cerebral cortex from magnetic resonance images. Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA 97, 11050-11055.
26. Braendgaard, H., Evans, S.M., Howard, C.V., and Gundersen, H.J. (1990). The total number of neurons in the human neocortex unbiasedly estimated using optical disectors. J. Microsc. 157, 285-304.
27. Cragg, B.G. (1975). The density of synapses and neurons in normal, mentally defective ageing human brains. Brain 98, 81-90.
28. Abeles, M. (1991). Corticonics (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press).