{"id":7613,"date":"2019-05-22T15:58:46","date_gmt":"2019-05-22T15:58:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/cortical_column\/"},"modified":"2019-05-22T15:58:46","modified_gmt":"2019-05-22T15:58:46","slug":"cortical_column","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/cortical_column\/","title":{"rendered":"Cortical column"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A cylinder of cells extending the depth of the cerebral cortex, and which is the fundamental repeating unit of the cortex. Each column does a stereotyped intake, transformation and distribution of a particular class of information. &nbsp;Cortical columns were first discovered electrophysiologically by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sfn.org\/skins\/main\/pdf\/history_of_neuroscience\/hon_vol_6\/c10.pdf\" target=\"_self\" data-editable-link=\"http:\/\/www.sfn.org\/skins\/main\/pdf\/history_of_neuroscience\/hon_vol_6\/c10.pdf&amp;target=_self\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Vernon B. Mountcastle<\/a> in 1957: neurons horizontally no more than 0.5 mm from each other do not have overlapping sensory receptive fields, a finding subsequently replicated many times. &nbsp;Such columnar organization is particularly evident in the visual system. &nbsp;In addition to ocular dominance and orientation columns, there also a number of other types in the visual cortex (e.g., position columns). &nbsp; &nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>See <a href=\"cerebral_cortex_-or_pallium-\">Cerebral cortex (or pallium)<\/a>, <a href=\"cortical_area\">Cortical area<\/a>, <a href=\"motor_cortex\">Motor cortex<\/a>, <a href=\"ocular_dominance_columns\">Ocular dominance columns<\/a>, <a href=\"two_visual_systems_hypothesis\">Two visual systems hypothesis<\/a>, Visual cortex<\/p>\n<p><\/body><\/html><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A cylinder of cells extending the depth of the cerebral cortex, and which is the fundamental repeating unit of the cortex. Each column does a stereotyped intake, transformation and distribution of a particular class of information. &nbsp;Cortical columns were first discovered electrophysiologically by Vernon B. Mountcastle in 1957: neurons horizontally no more than 0.5 mm &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/cortical_column\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Cortical column&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[2],"class_list":["post-7613","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-glossary","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7613","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7613"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7613\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7613"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7613"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7613"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}