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  • noun Plural form of hypercolumn.

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  • These columns make up, in turn, so-called hypercolumns, and each such hypercolumn occupies a portion of the cerebral cortex about two-by-two millimeters in area.

    Physiology or Medicine 1981 - Press Release 1981

  • The arrows above the histograms indicate the mean preferred spatial frequency of neurons within foveal (brown) or parafoveal (red) hypercolumns.

    PLoS ONE Alerts: New Articles Satohiro Tajima et al. 2010

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