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canonical microcircuit: a standalone construct

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the proposal that one repeated pattern of excitatory and inhibitory connections across cortical layers underlies processing throughout the neocortex.

In neuroscience, canonical microcircuit refers to the proposal that one repeated pattern of excitatory and inhibitory connections across cortical layers underlies processing throughout the neocortex. This meaning comes from Douglas (1989) in Neural Computation.[1]

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  1. Douglas, R. J., Martin, K. A. C., & Whitteridge, D. (1989). A Canonical Microcircuit for Neocortex. Neural Computation, 1(4), 480-488. https://doi.org/10.1162/neco.1989.1.4.480

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