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Cerebral Cortex, Vol. 13, No. 1, 1,
January 2003
© 2003 Oxford University Press
Preface to the Special Issue
W.M. Keck Center for Integrative Neuroscience, University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, CA 94143-0732, USA and , 1 Brain Mind Institute, Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne, CH-1015 Lausanne, Switzerland
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The six-layered neocortical columnar microcircuit, implemented most extensively in the human brain, supports a huge variety of sensory, cognitive and motor functions in mammals ranging from mouse to man. As discussed in Vernon Mountcastles