标题： 快速大脑的皮层柱 显示英文标题

标题： Cortical columns for quick brains

摘要： 人们普遍认为，皮层柱内观察到的特定布线增强了神经计算。我们通过重新布线执行现实世界认知任务的神经网络来研究这一论点的有效性。然而，在对柱内布线的大规模调查中，我们没有发现所提出效应的任何痕迹。在介观的柱间尺度上，柱的存在——无论其内部组织如何——都能提高信息传递的速度，并最小化将分布式柱状计算结合为时空一致结果所需的总布线长度。 显示英文摘要

摘要： It is widely believed that the particular wiring observed within cortical columns boosts neural computation. We use rewiring of neural networks performing real-world cognitive tasks to study the validity of this argument. In a vast survey of wirings within the column we detect, however, no traces of the proposed effect. It is on the mesoscopic inter-columnar scale that the existence of columns - largely irrespective of their inner organization - enhances the speed of information transfer and minimizes the total wiring length required to bind the distributed columnar computations towards spatio-temporally coherent results.