Thank you for the pointers Jeff. As I am also very interested in "ontogenetic vs. epigenetic" brain development, I found this article also very interesting: “Specification of Cerebral Cortical Areas” from P.Rakic http://www.sciencemag.org/content/241/4862/170.full.pdf
It is about the “radial unit model” of cerebral evolution. This hypothesis is quite important for my own work, as it explains why and how receptive field topology plays an important role in cortical procession of sensorial input (and in general as I think). Francisco On 10.03.2014, at 23:17, Jeff Hawkins <[email protected]> wrote: > 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 _______________________________________________ nupic mailing list [email protected] http://lists.numenta.org/mailman/listinfo/nupic_lists.numenta.org
