«The beauty of this whole approach,» Modha enthusiastically explains, «is that if you look at the mammalian cerebral cortex as a road map, you find that by adding more and more of these circuits, you get more and more functionality.» (discovermagazine.com)
The mammalian cerebral cortex is layered like an onion, with neurons in different layers responsible for different levels of cognitive function. (newscientist.com)
The mammalian cerebral cortex, long thought to be a dense single interrelated tangle of neural networks, actually has a «logical» underlying organizational principle, reveals a study appearing Feb. 27 in the journal Cell. (sciencedaily.com)