The laminar organization of cell types in macaque cortex and its relationship to neuronal oscillations

M J Lichtenfeld, A G Mulvey, H Nejat, Y S Xiong, B M Carlson, B A Mitchell, D Mendoza-Halliday, J A Westerberg, R Desimone, A Maier, J H Kaas, A M Bastos. bioRxiv : the preprint server for biology, Apr 2024.

Abstract

The canonical microcircuit (CMC) has been hypothesized to be the fundamental unit of information processing in cortex. Each CMC unit is thought to be an interconnected column of neurons with specific connections between excitatory and inhibitory neurons across layers. Recently, we identified a conserved spectrolaminar motif of oscillatory activity across the primate cortex that may be the physiological consequence of the CMC. The spectrolaminar motif consists of local field potential (LFP)…