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Laminar Organization of the Visual Cortex

A Unified View of Development, Learning, Attention, and Grouping

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The cerebral cortex is the seat of the highest forms of biological intelligence in all sensory and cognitive modalities. The neocortex has an intricate design which exhibits a characteristic organization into six distinct cortical layers (Brodmann, 1909; Martin, 1989). Differences in the thickness of these layers and the sizes and shapes of neurons led the German anatomist Korbinian Brodmann to identify more than fifty divisions, or areas, of neocortex. This classification has been invaluable as a basis for classifying distinct functions of different parts of neocortex. The functional utility of such a laminar organization in the control of behavior has, however, remained a mystery until recently.

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