Cortical Laminar Architecture
- One property of the cortex is that it has layers.
- If you take the corex and lay it out, it unfolds into about a
meter square sheet.
- Each bit of this sheet (with minor exception) has 6 layers.
This is called the laminar architecture.
- Each layer has a particular distribution of neurons, and
connections within and to other layers.
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- All of the cortex, despite doing a lot of different things, seems
to be structured this way.
- Again, every bit is different, as is every neuron, and the neurons and
synapses change over time. However, this is an important regularity.