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Distance-dependent connectivity in the brain facilitates high dynamical and structural complexity.

Victor J Barranca¹

¹Department of Mathematics and Statistics, Swarthmore College, 500 College Avenue, Swarthmore, PA 19081 USA.

Cognitive Neurodynamics

|December 29, 2025

Summary

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Brain connectivity strength decays with distance, organizing complex networks. This distance-dependent feature balances information integration and differentiation, crucial for brain computation.

Keywords:

Complexity Connectomics Information theory Neuronal networks Nonlinear dynamics

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Area of Science:

Neuroscience
Computational Neuroscience
Network Science

Background:

Cerebral cortex connectivity shows strengths varying over orders of magnitude and decreasing with distance.
Understanding the organizing principles of brain network structure and dynamics is key to explaining cognitive functions.

Purpose of the Study:

To demonstrate that distance-dependent inter-regional connectivity is a fundamental organizing feature of the cerebral cortex.
To investigate how this feature balances information integration and differentiation, fostering network complexity.
To link macroscale connectivity patterns to microscale network dynamics and overall computational capacity.

Main Methods:

Analysis of a multi-scale neuronal network model with nonlinear integrate-and-fire dynamics.
Incorporation of macroscale connection strengths decaying exponentially with spatial separation.
Inclusion of microscale small-world local connectivity.
Numerical simulation and parameter space optimization.
Formulation of computationally feasible measures for structural and dynamical complexity.

Main Results:

Inter-regional connectivity over intermediate spatial scales naturally leads to maximally heterogeneous connection strengths, consistent with experimental data.
High structural and dynamical complexity are achieved within a similar parameter regime.
The model successfully reproduces key features of experimental brain connectivity.

Conclusions:

Distance-dependent connectivity is a fundamental organizing principle in the cerebral cortex, promoting network complexity.
This principle facilitates a balance between information integration and differentiation, essential for robust brain computations.
The findings provide a framework for understanding the relationship between brain connectivity architecture and its dynamic information processing capabilities.