Recent Advances on the Modular Organization of the Cortex /

Bibliographic Details
Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
Other Authors: Casanova, Manuel F. (Editor), Opris, Ioan. (Editor)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Dordrecht : Springer Netherlands : Imprint: Springer, 2015.
Edition:1st ed. 2015.
Subjects:
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction
  • Vernon Benjamin Mountcastle
  • Modular organization of the prefrontal cortex: the legacy of Patricia Goldman-Rakic
  • The types of functional and structural subdivisions of cortical areas
  • The types of functional and structural subdivisions of cortical areas
  • The minicolumn in comparative context
  • Unusual cortical lamination patterns in the sengis (elephant shrews) do not appear to influence the presence of cortical minicolumns
  • Active inference, predictive coding and cortical architecture
  • Columnar organization of the motor cortex: direction of movement
  • Discrete, place-defined macrocolumns in somatosensory cortex: lessons for modular organization of the cerebral cortex
  • Prefrontal cortical microcircuits for executive control of behavior
  • Cytoarchitectural modules: functional specialisation and disruption in neuropsychiatric disorders
  • The relevance of subplate modifications to connectivity in the cerebral cortex of individuals with autism spectrum disorders
  • The minicolumnopathy of autism
  • Clinical applications of electrophysiological approaches based on cortical modularity in autism
  • Index.