Some predictions of Rafael Lorente de Nó 80 years later

Abstract

Rafael Lorente de Nó, the youngest of Santiago Ramón y Cajal disciples, was one of the last Century's more influential researches in neuroscience. This assay highlights two fundamental contributions of Rafael Lorente de Nó to neurobiology: the intrinsic organization of the mammalian cerebral cortex and the basic physiology of the neuron processes.

Keywords: Ammon's horn; Lorente de Nó; cerebral cortex; hippocampus; summation coding.