Talk:Cortical minicolumn

Number in Brain?
How can there be 100 neurons in a minicolumn and 2E8 minicolumns in the human brain? That would be only 20 billion neurons, but there are 100 billion. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 24.214.155.48 (talk) 13:22, 14 January 2010 (UTC)


 * A cortical minicolumn constitute a computational unit of the cerebral cortex, and the cerebral cortex is only a part of the brain. 2001:4644:13BE:0:EA5B:E692:C03F:CD3E (talk) 22:27, 15 January 2022 (UTC)

English language cleanup needed?
Some of this seems like it was written by someone for whom English is not their first language and/or isn't really capable of composing thoughts. "Cells in 50 μm minicolumn all have the same receptive field; adjacent minicolumns may have different fields" doesn't make much sense. Are we to conclude that cells in a 40 μm minicolumn don't have the same receptive field?? Is this sentence somehow related to the only other sentence in the same paragraph regarding an alternate term for minicolumns? Another example: "Larger sizes may not be human minicolumns... macaque monkey... 31μm... cat... 56μm" yet nowhere is "human" diameter given so that "Larger" has reference. If the article's default species is "human" it should be stated up front so the numbers have context. Moreover, it is misleading to launch into such comparisons without also commenting on the difference in neuron sizes since they do vary quite dramatically. Jim Bowery (talk) 05:34, 4 May 2020 (UTC)