Anatomy of the Cortex

By Prof. Dr. Valentino Braitenberg, Priv. Doz. Dr. Almut Schüz. 1991

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Structural Synaptic Plasticity Has High Memory Capacity and Can Explain Graded Amnesia, Catastrophic Forgetting, and the Spacing Effect (2014, background): “A key to understanding the role of structural plasticity in memory has to do with the observation that the brain, even its most densely connected local circuits, is far from being fully connected [24,25].”
Neural syntax: cell assemblies, synapsembles and readers (2010, unknown): “The reader-centric definition of the cell assembly differs from representation-based descriptions (Abeles, 1991; Braitenberg and Schuz, 1991; Gerstein et al., 1989; Hebb, 1949; Hopfield and Tank, 1986; Palm, 1982; Wickelgren, 1999) in some key aspects.”
Genetic dissection of neural circuits. (2008, unknown): “…The structures of dendritic and axonal arbors, derived from optical microscopy, have provided the data for coarse estimates of wiring diagrams (Braitenberg and Schutz, 1991; Binzegger et al., 2004; Shepherd et al., 2005; Stepanyants and Chklovskii, 2005; Jefferis et al., 2007; Lin et al.,…”
Encoding of Naturalistic Stimuli by Local Field Potential Spectra in Networks of Excitatory and Inhibitory Neurons (2008, background): “of the neurons are taken to be excitatory, the remaining 20% are inhibitory [58].”
Efficient computation and cue integration with noisy population codes (2001, methodology): “We used a network in which 20% of the activity of the input unit at each time step depends on the clamped noisy hills and the remaining 80% comes from the recurrent activity (a ratio consistent with cortical anatomy 17 ).”
The Human Connectome: A Structural Description of the Human Brain (2005, background): “With single neurons as the basic element, the size of the connectome would be several orders of magnitude larger than that of the genome, comprising an estimated 1011 neurons, with 1015 connections between them (approximately 1010 neurons and 1013 connections in the cortex alone) [18, 19 ].”
Polychronization: Computation with Spikes (2006, background): “The model neural network, described in the Appendix, preserves important ratios found in the mammalian cortex (Braitenberg and Schuz 1991).”
On the design of neural networks in the brain by genetic evolution. (2000, background): “…architecture of the cerebral neocortex appears to follow the same general design for di erent architectonic areas (Rolls and Treves, 1998; Braitenberg and Schuz, 1991; Peters and Jones, 1984; Somogyi et al., 1998; Douglas and Martin, 1990), so much of the neocortex may use one generic…”