Recent Advances on the Modular Organization of the Cortex

Introduction.- Vernon Benjamin Mountcastle.- Modular organization of the prefrontal cortex: the legacy of Patricia Goldman-Rakic.- The types of functional and structural subdivisions of cortical areas.- The types of functional and structural subdivisions of cortical areas.- The minicolumn in comparative context.- Unusual cortical lamination patterns in the sengis (elephant shrews) do not appear to influence the presence of cortical minicolumns.- Active inference, predictive coding and cortical architecture.- Columnar organization of the motor cortex: direction of movement.- Discrete, place-defined macrocolumns in somatosensory cortex: lessons for modular organization of the cerebral cortex.- Prefrontal cortical microcircuits for executive control of behavior.- Cytoarchitectural modules: functional specialisation and disruption in neuropsychiatric disorders.- The relevance of subplate modifications to connectivity in the cerebral cortex of individuals with autism spectrum disorders.-The minicolumnopathy of autism.- Clinical applications of electrophysiological approaches based on cortical modularity in autism.- Index.