I have a folder of articles on mini-columns. There are very few theories about what they do functionally. So these papers are mostly about evidence for their existence and anatomical/connection details. Here are three papers you might want to start with.
"The minicolumn hypothesis in neuroscience" Buxhoevenden and Casanova; Brain (2002) This is the best review article I know about mini-columns. Start here. "Comparison of Intrinsic Connectivity in Different Areas of Macaque Monkey Cerebral Cortex" Lund, Yoshioka, and Levitt; Cerebral Cortex (March/April 1993) This one is harder to read but has a lot of good connectivity statistics. Not for the newbie neuroscience reader. "Functional maps of neocortical local circuitry" Thomson, Lamy; Frontiers in Neuroscience (November 2007) This is a great compendium of details on cellular connectivity between layers in cortex, not specifically about mini-columns. Thomson has done a few of these papers. I find her presentations thorough and useful. Again, this is a very neurosciency paper. If you can't find these let me know. Some of them may be not open access. If you want to understand the connectivity between regions in a hierarchy, that is something different. I can recommend some papers for that but they won't be in the language of mini-columns. Jeff The best overview I know of -----Original Message----- From: nupic [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Aseem Hegshetye Sent: Monday, March 10, 2014 2:41 PM To: [email protected] Subject: [nupic-discuss] Columnar architecture Hi, I am reading things related to cortical columns. Looking for papers and blogs explaining how columns are connected in hierarchy or how a column behaves when it goes from one layer to another in the neo-cortex. Please post links or names of any knowledgeable article/ paper you like. http://rebelscience.blogspot.com/2011/11/rebel-column-new-model-of-cortical. html this one dint go much deeper, but was ok to read once. thanks _______________________________________________ nupic mailing list [email protected] http://lists.numenta.org/mailman/listinfo/nupic_lists.numenta.org _______________________________________________ nupic mailing list [email protected] http://lists.numenta.org/mailman/listinfo/nupic_lists.numenta.org
