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Category Archives: Max Plank Institute

3-D models of neuronal networks reveal organizational principles of sensory cortex.

May 12, 2015   Max Plank Institute, neuronal networks, neuroscience

Researchers at the Max Planck Institute for Biological Cybernetics (Germany), VU University Amsterdam (Netherlands) and Max Planck Florida Institute for Neuroscience (USA) succeed in reconstructing the neuronal networks that interconnect the elementary units of sensory cortex – cortical columns.

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