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Cortical Microcircuits

Cortical Microcircuits is a local neural circuit within the cerebral cortex defined by a small, stereotyped pattern of synaptically interconnected excitatory and inhibitory neurons that serves as a fundamental, often repeating, computational and information-processing unit of cortical tissue.

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Microstructure of a spatial map in the entorhinal cortex

Torkel Hafting, Marianne Fyhn, Sturla Molden et al. · Nature · 2005 · 4.2K citations

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Two cortical visual systems

Leslie G. Ungerleider · Medical Entomology and Zoology · 1982 · 4.2K citations

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Mapping cortical change across the human life span

Elizabeth R. Sowell, Bradley S. Peterson, Paul M. Thompson et al. · Nature Neuroscience · 2003 · 2.3K citations

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Dendritic organization in the neurons of the visual and motor cortices of the cat.

Sholl Da · PubMed · 1953 · 2.3K citations

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Cortical oscillations and speech processing: emerging computational principles and operations

Anne-Lise Giraud, David Poeppel · Nature Neuroscience · 2012 · 2K citations · Full text

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  1. WM
    Wolfgang Maass

    Graz University of Technology, Austria

    15 publications · 893 citations

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    Henry Markram

    École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne, Switzerland

    18 publications · 3.5K citations

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    Gordon M. Shepherd

    Yale University, United States

    13 publications · 1.4K citations

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    Rafael Yuste

    Columbia University, United States

    12 publications · 2.2K citations

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    Mircea Steriade

    Université Laval, Canada

    11 publications · 627 citations

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  1. Howard Hughes Medical Institute

    Chevy Chase, United States

    46 h-index

    149 publications

    37K citations

  2. Harvard University

    Cambridge, United States

    36 h-index

    151 publications

    25.3K citations

  3. University College London

    London, United Kingdom

    32 h-index

    122 publications

    17.1K citations

  4. University of California San Diego

    San Diego, United States

    29 h-index

    103 publications

    14.8K citations

  5. Massachusetts Institute of Technology

    Cambridge, United States

    29 h-index

    88 publications

    15.9K citations

  6. Inserm

    Paris, France

    27 h-index

    105 publications

    10.3K citations

  7. Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique

    Paris, France

    27 h-index

    94 publications

    6.9K citations

  8. New York University

    New York, United States

    25 h-index

    57 publications

    11.3K citations

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  1. Neuron

    104 publications · 21.6K citations

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  2. Nature Neuroscience

    74 publications · 24.5K citations

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  3. Brain Research

    124 publications · 11.9K citations

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  4. NeuroImage

    96 publications · 9.9K citations

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  5. Journal of Neuroscience

    62 publications · 9.1K citations

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