Table 1.

Principles of sensory neocortical circuitry

		A1	S1BF
General dynamical features	Capable of multineuronal emergent dynamics	Yes	Yes
	Mean circuit size in a single 1.1 mm 2D imaged plane	155 ± 62 neurons	207 ± 123 neurons
	Max circuit size in a single 1.1 mm 2D imaged plane	294 neurons	577 neurons
	Component neuron firing related to circuit duration	Yes: short durations	Yes: short + long durations
	Circuits flow perpendicular and parallel to pia	Yes	Yes
	Fraction of cells showing temporal precision	0.38 ± 0.11	0.31 ± 0.13
Graph properties	Fraction of graph that is sparse	0.9363 ± 0.0545	0.8902 ± 0.1074
	Overrepresentation of bidirectional edges (x-fold)	4.51 ± 2.11	4.48 ± 3.70
	Graph size (nodes)	595 ± 101	704 ± 157
	Out degree distribution tail	Smaller	Longer
Topological flow characteristics	Small world	Yes	Yes
	Scale free	Yes	Yes
	Modular	Yes	Yes
	Hierarchically modular	Yes	Yes
	Connection probability	Falls with distance	Falls with distance
	Connection distances	Biased toward local with some long connections	Biased toward local with some long connections
	Hub neurons	Yes	Yes
Modeling	Dynamics sufficiently replicated by SNN model	Yes	Yes
	Scalable to other networks by size modification	Scalable to S1	Scalable to A1
	Scalable from a small A1 network	NA	Yes, via preferential attachment