Eyal Gal

The paper identifies hub neurons in a rodent neocortical microcircuit and shows that their removal disrupts network topology and dynamics more than random neuron removal.

The paper shows that neuron geometry in cortical microcircuits explains universal network motifs and predicts spatial cell alignment, validated through in vitro recordings.

This study compares two neocortical microcircuit models with similar first-order connectivity but differing higher-order structure, finding that morphological diversity affects network topology and neuronal firing patterns.