Five points on columns
“Column,” like “gene,” has both conceptual and linguistic shortcomings. The simple question “what is a column” is not easy to answer and the word itself is not easy to replace. In the present article, I have selected five points, in no way comprehensive or canonical, but which may nevertheless serve...
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| description | “Column,” like “gene,” has both conceptual and linguistic shortcomings. The simple question “what is a column” is not easy to answer and the word itself is not easy to replace. In the present article, I have selected five points, in no way comprehensive or canonical, but which may nevertheless serve as a prompt and aid for further discussions and re-evaluation. These are: that anatomical columns are not solid structures, that they are part of locally interdigitating systems, that any delimited column also participates in a widely distributed network, that columns are not an obligatory cortical feature, and that columns (as “modules”) occur widely in the brain in non-cortical structures. I focus on the larger scale macrocolumns, mainly from an anatomical perspective. My position is that cortical organization is inherently dynamic and likely to incorporate multiple processing styles. One can speculate that the distributed mappings within areas like piriform cortex may resemble at least one mode of neocortical processing strategy. |
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| spelling | mit-1721.1/659242022-09-28T13:59:56Z Five points on columns Rockland, Kathleen Picower Institute for Learning and Memory RIKEN-MIT Center for Neural Circuit Genetics Rockland, Kathleen Rockland, Kathleen “Column,” like “gene,” has both conceptual and linguistic shortcomings. The simple question “what is a column” is not easy to answer and the word itself is not easy to replace. In the present article, I have selected five points, in no way comprehensive or canonical, but which may nevertheless serve as a prompt and aid for further discussions and re-evaluation. These are: that anatomical columns are not solid structures, that they are part of locally interdigitating systems, that any delimited column also participates in a widely distributed network, that columns are not an obligatory cortical feature, and that columns (as “modules”) occur widely in the brain in non-cortical structures. I focus on the larger scale macrocolumns, mainly from an anatomical perspective. My position is that cortical organization is inherently dynamic and likely to incorporate multiple processing styles. One can speculate that the distributed mappings within areas like piriform cortex may resemble at least one mode of neocortical processing strategy. 2011-09-21T22:00:58Z 2011-09-21T22:00:58Z 2010-06 2010-02 Article http://purl.org/eprint/type/JournalArticle 1662-5129 http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/65924 Rockland, Kathleen S. “Five Points on Columns.” Frontiers in Neuroanatomy (2010) Front. Neuroanat. 4:22 Copyright: © 2010 K. S. Rockland https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6650-8785 en_US http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fnana.2010.00022 Frontiers in Neuroanatomy Article is made available in accordance with the publisher's policy and may be subject to US copyright law. Please refer to the publisher's site for terms of use. application/pdf Frontiers Media Frontiers |
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