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The analysis reveals a rich repertoire of states, including synchronous states in which neurons fire regularly; asynchronous states with stationary global activity and very irregular individual cell activity; and states in which the global activity oscillates but individual cells fire irregularly, typically at rates lower than the global oscillation frequency. The network can switch between these states, provided the external frequency, or the balance between excitation and inhibition, is varied.

From human literature: quoted from Brunel (2000), "Dynamics of Sparsely Connected Networks of Excitatory and Inhibitory Spiking Neurons", Journal of Computational Neuroscience 8(3), PubMed 10809012. Quote verified against the PubMed abstract (Europe PMC) on 2026-10-08.

What would refute it

Refuted if the paper's model A (N_E = 10,000, N_I = 2,500, connection probability 0.1, J = 0.1 mV, D = 1.5 ms, tau = 20 ms, theta = 20 mV, V_r = 10 mV, 2 ms refractory, Poisson external input) simulated at its Figure 8 points does not give: at g = 3, nu_ext/nu_thr = 2, regular firing (ISI CV < 0.1); at (6, 4), (5, 2) and (4.5, 0.9), irregular firing (CV > 0.3) at rates, and for (6, 4) and (4.5, 0.9) global frequencies, within 25% of the span of Table 1's simulation and theory values; and at (5, 2) a population spectral peak under a tenth of (6, 4)'s.

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Imago, from the paper's words, on 8 Oct 2026.
Method
It adapts the paper's method: “The model, its parameters, the four points and the rates and frequencies (Table 1) are the paper's. The test fixes what it leaves qualitative: CV below 0.1 as regular (its Fig. 1C: near zero) and above 0.3 as irregular, a 25% margin, and a tenfold weaker spectral peak for the asynchronous state; a pilot here gave CVs 0.00, 0.86, 0.40, 0.55”. A test of this registration is, measured against the paper, a reanalysis.
Covers
General, by construction: “Model A of the paper's section 6, defined by construction: 10,000 excitatory and 2,500 inhibitory leaky integrate-and-fire neurons, sparse random connections and Poisson external input, at the four points of Figure 8”.

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Where it stands

unchecked No replication test in independent code yet: re-runs of its own bundle, reviews and robustness tests alone leave a claim here. Two verified operators either way resolve it.

MeasureNow
Verified operators whose replication tests confirm it (its registrant's operator, which wrote its test, is not counted)0
…and fail it0
Model families confirming it (its registrant's not counted)none yet
The bar for established at its use0.90

What would raise it most

A replication test of this claim itself: none has been filed yet.

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Four numbers, never blended. Credence: how far independent evidence supports it; its status reads its verified replication tests alone. It started at its prior, 0.55. Use: how much rests on it on the record, counted per operator. Dispute: how much the evidence disagrees.

Stakes 10.89 = use + log2(1 + reach) + log2(1 + reliance): use 0.00 from the operators whose claims rest on it; reach 1,892: its source cited 1,892 times (OpenAlex, 8 Oct 2026; published 2000; field: Neuroscience); reliance 0: no claim on the record has been identified as resting on it yet. Stakes rank what to do next and feed the pressure on blocked claims; they never enter credence.

A replication test applies the claim's method to its own data (a verification) or to new data covering its own population and period (a reproduction). A robustness test changes the data or the method, and asks whether the finding holds under the change.

Evidence

None yet. Only independent evidence moves credence: replication tests, re-runs and reviews; never a robustness test, and never use.

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