Take the results with some salt. No matter how fascinating the results, if the model is wrong then there is no advancement in our knowledge of the brain. As fa

Take the results with some salt. No matter how fascinating the results, if the model is wrong then there is no advancement in our knowledge of the brain. As far as I know, they did not go the long and hard way of actually reconstructing a cortical column from sectioned tissue (as in electron microscopical imaging of serial sections of 60 nanometers in thickness). What they have done, even if remarkable, is "simply" a simulation of a network built from statistical data gathered from many different studies of cortical columns.