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The overall statistics of cortical elements which we had developed (Chaps. 3–12) even before the concept of neuronal types was introduced (Chaps. 14, 15) has not been seriously challenged by any of our later more detailed measurements. If we imagine a cortex in which pyramidal cells and non-pyramidal (or briefly, stellate) cells are thoroughly mixed, and if we suppose that both cell types carry about the same number of synapses and distribute them without specific preferences, we can roughly predict the proportions of various types of synapses in the electron microscope.
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Braitenberg, V., Schüz, A. (1998). Peters’ Rule and White’s Exceptions. In: Cortex: Statistics and Geometry of Neuronal Connectivity. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-662-03733-1_21
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