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1. Neuroscience › Neural dynamics and brain function

   Reproducing Polychronization: A Guide to Maximizing the Reproducibility of Spiking Network Models

   Pauli, Weidel, Kunkel and Morrison · Frontiers in Neuroinformatics · 2018

   The authors reproduced a seminal spiking network study, found it hard to do even with source code, and derived best-practice guidelines to make such models easier to reproduce.

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   1. Supported · 71%Once reproduced correctly, the spiking network model is highly sensitive to background noise, integration timestep and the analysis algorithm's thresholding parameter.“Further examination of the correctly reproduced model reveals that it is highly sensitive to implementation choices such as the realization of background noise, the integration timestep, and the thresholding parameter of the analysis algorithm.”