Fig. 2: Alignment time change in an EDR based connectome due to long-range pathway insertion.

A We built a reservoir using the EDR and projected the intact/scrambled narrative input to the first 300 neurons to measure the alignment time difference caused by the insertion of an additional long-range pathway (black rectangle in the connectome matrix). The pathway connects neurons 200–299 and 800–899 bidirectionally and causes a speed up (blue stars in the box plot), especially for neurons 800–899. Boxes indicate quartiles, with whiskers extending to the farthest datapoint within 1.5 times the inter-quartile range. B Same as (A) but inserting the extra pathway at positions 350–449 and 850–949, which leads to a slowdown of neurons in the range 300–499 (red stars in the box plot). C Systematic exploration of the effect of bidirectional pathway insertion at positions 300 neurons off the diagonal of the connectome matrix. The effect of either significant speed up or slowdown is shown for the neurons grouped at 0–99, 300–399 and 600–699. The positions of the specific connectomes from (A) and (B) are marked by the star and pentagon, respectively.