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The neocortex is indeed one of the major wonders of nature, whatever aspect is considered: (a) how it is put together during development; (b) the diversity of its major structural constituents (various neuron types) assembled according to a general blueprint of local connectivity, but with a great variation in the finer details leading to the coexistence in the same larger tissue block of various maps (or elements thereof); (c) the unbelievable richness and variety in short-, medium-, and long-range connectivity. This refers only to architectonic side. To assemble all of this information into a short coherent story is obviously impossible. The best that I can aspire for is to show a small segment of cortical connectivity (item (c) above) as it is beginning to take shape in our present understanding.
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Szentágothai, J. (1990). Cascade-Type Reentrance: The Major Connectivity Principle of the Neocortex. In: Deecke, L., Eccles, J.C., Mountcastle, V.B. (eds) From Neuron to Action. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-662-02601-4_45
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