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Neuronal branching patterns and the economy of cortical wiring

1991; Royal Society; Volume: 245; Issue: 1313 Linguagem: Inglês

10.1098/rspb.1991.0102

1471-2954

Graeme Mitchison,

Neural Networks and Applications

Restricted accessMoreSectionsView PDF ToolsAdd to favoritesDownload CitationsTrack Citations ShareShare onFacebookTwitterLinked InRedditEmail Cite this article Mitchison Graeme 1991Neuronal branching patterns and the economy of cortical wiringProc. R. Soc. Lond. B.245151–158http://doi.org/10.1098/rspb.1991.0102SectionRestricted accessArticleNeuronal branching patterns and the economy of cortical wiring Graeme Mitchison Google Scholar Find this author on PubMed Search for more papers by this author Graeme Mitchison Google Scholar Find this author on PubMed Published:22 August 1991https://doi.org/10.1098/rspb.1991.0102AbstractKeeping the volume of connections in the cortex as low as possible may be an important evolutionary constraint on the design of the brain. Much as an engineer tries to arrange the components of a computer in such a way as to give efficient wiring, so the brain may have evolved a layout of neuronal types which gives an economical use of axonal 'wiring'. One key difference between computer and brain is that connections in the brain take the form of elaborate branching structures. It is argued here that certain features of cortical mapping, such as the stripes and patches seen within cortical areas, may be adaptations which allow efficient wiring by such structures. Some simple calculations are given to support this, using as models for axonal arbors certain branching patterns which give a low volume of wiring. In particular, it is shown that a pattern of stripes can give economical wiring when axon diameters follow a law dp = dp + dwith p >4, where d1 and d2 are the diameters of the daughter bFootnotesThis text was harvested from a scanned image of the original document using optical character recognition (OCR) software. As such, it may contain errors. Please contact the Royal Society if you find an error you would like to see corrected. Mathematical notations produced through Infty OCR. 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