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The cerebral cortex is a sheet of gray matter usually described as composed of layers of cells tangential to the pial surface. The lamination is obvious even to the inexperienced eye, but the individual layers and their subdivisions are not always clear (Fig. 1.1). In fact, different schemes of lamination have been described by different investigators. The scheme which has gained widest acceptance is perhaps that of Vogt and Brodman into six layers [Sholl, 1956].
The author is a grantee of the Medical Research Council of Canada. The work was done at the University of Ottawa, Ottawa, Canada.
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Colonnier, M.L. (1965). The Structural Design of the Neocortex. In: Eccles, J.C. (eds) Brain and Conscious Experience. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-49168-9_1
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