Replication studies

Published papers rebuilt as one declarative SimulationStudy each

The catalogue of papers replicated in TVB-O, and which specification blocks each one exercises.

A replication in TVB-O is one SimulationStudy: the paper’s experiments, the analyses that turn their results into the paper’s numbers, and the figures that draw them, in a single specification that anyone can re-run. Nothing is a driver script, and nothing is a notebook that only its author can execute.

The studies below live in the tvbo-manuscript corpus rather than in this repository, because a replication carries its source data and its derivatives with it and the documentation should stay small. What this page catalogues is which of them exist and which parts of the specification language each one leans on.

12 papers are replicated as declarative studies.

Study Paper Specification blocks it uses
Jansen (1993) A neurophysiologically based mathematical model of flash visual evoked potentials 10
Jansen (1995) Electroencephalogram and visual evoked potential generation in a mathematical model of coupled cortical columns 10
Tsodyks & Markram (1997) The neural code between neocortical pyramidal neurons depends on neurotransmitter release probability 5
Mongillo (2008) Synaptic Theory of Working Memory 5
Cortes (2013) Short-term synaptic plasticity in the deterministic Tsodyks–Markram model leads to unpredictable network dynamics 8
Deco (2014) How Local Excitation-Inhibition Ratio Impacts the Whole Brain Dynamics 12
Stefanovski (2019) Linking Molecular Pathways and Large-Scale Computational Modeling to Assess Candidate Disease Mechanisms and Pharmacodynamics in Alzheimer’s Disease 7
Taher (2019) Enhancing power grid synchronization and stability through time-delayed feedback control 11
Pang (2023) Geometric constraints on human brain function 11
Schirner (2023) Learning how network structure shapes decision-making for bio-inspired computing 15
Koller (2024) Human connectome topology directs cortical traveling waves and shapes frequency gradients 15
Kadak (2025) Alpha rhythm subharmonics underlie responsiveness to theta burst stimulation via calcium metaplasticity 7

What each study exercises

The right-hand column above is not a hand-kept list. scripts/build_usecase_tags.py reads each recipe, records which specification slots it actually writes, and maps them onto the page that documents each slot. The same artifact drives the Used in published replications block that appears at the foot of those pages, so a page cannot claim a study that has stopped using its feature.

Building one yourself

The replication pipeline covers how a study becomes generated simulations, figures and cluster jobs from one specification. The figures are declarative too: specify a figure is the grammar, and custom figure panels the escape hatch for a paper’s bespoke layouts.

The replicating-studies skill turns a paper into that specification plus an honest, fully computed report. See installing and tuning skills.

Only published sources appear here

TVB-O’s study database holds replication specifications whose source work is still embargoed. Those are deliberately absent from this catalogue, which is generated from the corpus and filtered to studies carrying a DOI.