Number of neurons in minicolumn

Range 80 to 100 Neurons
Organism Primates
Reference Sporns O, Tononi G, Kötter R. The human connectome: A structural description of the human brain. PLoS Comput Biol. 2005 Sep1(4):e42.PubMed ID16201007
Comments Mountcastle [54,55] originally proposed the cortical minicolumn as a basic functional unit of mammalian cerebral cortex.
Entered by Uri M
ID 107320