Statistical connectivity provides a sufficient foundation for specific functional connectivity in neocortical neural microcircuits

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

Volumn 109, Issue 42, 2012, Pages

  Hill, Sean L ^a   Wang, Yun ^b,c   Riachi, Imad ^a   Schur̈mann, Felix ^a   Markram, Henry ^a  

^a EPFL   (Switzerland)

^b WENZHOU MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

^c TUFTS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Connectome; Microcircuitry; Neocortex; Neuronal connectivity

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; HISTOLOGY; IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION; NEOCORTEX; NEOCORTICAL NEURAL MICROCIRCUIT; NERVE CELL; NERVE CELL NETWORK; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; SYNAPSE;

CONNECTOME; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; MODELS, STATISTICAL; NEOCORTEX; NEURAL PATHWAYS; SYNAPSES;

EID: 84867634970     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: 10916490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1202128109     Document Type: Article

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