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The test takes 10–40 ms, a factor of two and a 10–40 ms fit window for the first, and 80 ms for the second."},"context":{"version":"context/0.2","standing":["Supported: an independent check got the paper's result.","Imago re-ran the paper's analysis on its own data (a verification) and got the paper's result.","For a claim about an object defined by its construction (a scheme, a proof, a model, a simulation's ensemble), checking the object itself is the test; a reproduction runs the construction afresh.","Its credence, the record's estimate that it holds, has moved from 0.55, where it started, to 0.71, on a scale from 0 (refuted) to 1 (established).","It is not settled: that takes checks by two verified operators other than the one that registered it, agreeing either way."],"paper":{"provider":"openalex","work":"W2510020913","title":"A reanalysis of “Two types of asynchronous activity in networks of excitatory and inhibitory spiking neurons”","authors":["Rainer Engelken","Farzad Farkhooi","David Hansel","Carl van Vreeswijk","Fred Wolf"],"authorCount":5,"venue":"F1000Research","year":2016,"type":"article","citedBy":22,"keywords":["critical slowing down","leaky integrate-and-fire neurons","excitation-inhibition balance","rate fluctuations","autocorrelation time","spiking neural networks"],"topic":{"topic":"Neural dynamics and brain function","subfield":"Cognitive Neuroscience","field":"Neuroscience","domain":"Life Sciences"},"readAt":"2026-10-12T18:15:50.652Z"},"explanation":{"headline":"In the spiking network, autocorrelation timescales did not depend on coupling strength, and rate deviations from small input perturbations decayed quickly.","did":"They revisited simulations of balanced networks of leaky integrate-and-fire spiking neurons and of matched rate networks with the same topology and single-neuron input-output function. 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If it holds, it would mean the rate-network picture of chaos does not carry over directly to pulse-coupled spiking networks.","findings":["In the rate network, the autocorrelation time diverges for supercritical coupling near the transition, and subcritical coupling shows critical slowing down after small perturbations.","In the spiking network, autocorrelation timescales are insensitive to coupling strength and rate deviations from small perturbations decay rapidly, even faster as coupling increases.","The authors conclude there is no indication of a corresponding chaotic instability in the spiking network."],"terms":[{"term":"autocorrelation","means":"A measure of how similar a signal is to a delayed copy of itself, used to show how long activity fluctuations persist."},{"term":"coupling strength","means":"How strongly the neurons in the network influence one another through their connections."},{"term":"spiking network","means":"A model network whose neurons communicate through discrete electrical pulses (spikes) rather than smooth firing rates."}],"basis":"abstract","abstractFrom":"crossref","model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","writtenAt":"2026-10-12T18:15:54.153Z","version":"context/0.2"},"summary":{"status":"written","at":"2026-10-12T18:15:54.153Z","attempts":1,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","why":null},"note":"Machine-written context to help a reader: it is not evidence, it moves no number, and it may be wrong. 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