Proerties would be similar across laminae but within a small areal extent. The best evidence for this is in primary visual cortex where columns are found that represent a single orientation. However Mountcastle was the first to demonstrate this in somatosensory cortex with penetrations perpendicular through the surface. The cortical columns have patchy connections to other cortices. Intrinsic circuitry strategies Correlation between function and structure.
Striate cortex is the most studied.
It is the first stop from LGN of thalamus for visual information in the cortex. It has properties such as end-stopping. Recall that it has cler cut boundaries and diverse population of thalamic inputs. This changing mapping strategy makes it tricky, but the neuroanatomost has many tools at her disposal plus the regular almost crystalline structure of the cortex itself. Do these remain segregated as they pass further along or is a new segregation made based upon mixtures of these inputs by the spiny stellate neurons.