Wang and colleagues present a model of the whole cortex (almost).  A gradient of synaptic excitation results in sensory areas show fast responses while cognitive areas show slow integrative activity.  Different temporal hierarchies/dynamics coexist in the same networks.

A Large-Scale Circuit Mechanism for Hierarchical Dynamical Processing in the Primate Cortex
Rishidev Chaudhuri, Kenneth Knoblauch, Marie-Alice Gariel,  Henry Kennedy, Xiao-Jing Wang
Neuron, Volume 88, Issue 2, 21 October 2015, Pages 419–431

In general, this fits pretty well with our recent study of actual neural dynamics across the cortex:
Siegel, M., Buschman, T.J., and Miller, E.K. (2015) Cortical information flow during flexible sensorimotor decisions.  Science. 19 June 2015: 1352-1355.  View PDF

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