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We found two questions interesting in connection with the shape of neuronal ramification in the cortex. One is, how wide is the territory in which the intracortical axonal branches of a certain neuron are distributed? The other, what proportion of the synapses present within that territory is served by that one axon? The two questions are related, and the answer to one can be deduced from the answer to the other once we know, as we already do, the total density of axons in the tissue and the axonal length of individual neurons.
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Braitenberg, V., Schüz, A. (1998). Relative Density of Axons and Dendrites. In: Cortex: Statistics and Geometry of Neuronal Connectivity. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-662-03733-1_19
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