Cortical Column
<p>Feb 04, 2011 08:35 AM
 
synonym  hypercolumn or cortical module
 
CORTICAL COLUMN:  note:  definition is  ambiguous.
originally framed by Vernon Mountcastle with electrode studies
(all neurons have same receptive field)   but note
 
Hubel and Wiesel use:  tissue block of  multiple overlapping hypercoumns.
 
and see reference 2  Horton and Adams 2005:  cort column  a struc wihtout a function from UCSF
 
 
 
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