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- From: ddoherty@ics.uci.edu (Donald Doherty)
- Subject: Re: Neural Columns
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- Reply-To: ddoherty@ics.uci.edu (Donald Doherty)
- Organization: Univ. of Calif., Irvine, Info. & Computer Sci. Dept.
- References: <erwin.727385041@trwacs> <1jfig7INNf8o@shelley.u.washington.edu>
- Date: Sat, 23 Jan 1993 01:27:38 GMT
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- In article <1jfig7INNf8o@shelley.u.washington.edu> wcalvin@stein.u.washington.edu (William Calvin) writes:
- >erwin@trwacs.fp.trw.com (Harry Erwin) writes:
- >
- >>I'm looking for a good reference on the functions and dynamics of neural
- >>columns.
- >
- >>--
- >>Harry Erwin
- >>Internet: erwin@trwacs.fp.trw.com
- >
- >Vernon Mountcastle's chapter in THE NEUROSCIENCES FOURTH STUDY PROGRAM
- >(MIT Press 1979) is a good summary. Shaw, Harth and Scheibel in
- >Experimental Neurology 77:324-358 (1982) is a good theoretical take on the
- >subject.
- > William H. Calvin WCalvin@U.Washington.edu
- >
-
- Hi Harry,
-
- Dr. Calvin's suggestion by Vernon Mountcastle is your best bet (Mouncastle
- is one of the originators of the idea). FYI, the same chapter is contained
- in a book titled "The Mindful Brain: Cortical Organization and the Group-
- Selective Theory of Higher Brain Function," by Gerald Edelman and Vernon
- Mountcastle (1978) MIT press.
-
- Also what you are refering to as neural columns are more commonly refered to
- as "cortical columns." And it is good to keep in mind that cortical columns
- are an idea that may have positive heuristic value but may or may not
- actually exist.
-
- Don
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